In this video lesson, I want to teach you the Son Clave. Now you see the word CLAVE, it’s not clave it’s CLAVE, so the first thing is learn how to pronounce it properly. Now if you look at exercise one in the sheet music provided, you’ll notice that there are three actual hits in the first bar and two hits in the second bar. Now, you may have heard the term 3:2 Son Clave, what that means is in the first bar there’s three hits. In the second bar there are two hits, allow me to demonstrate.
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Exercise number two is the 2:3 Son Clave so if you look closer that one you’ll notice that there are two hits in the first bar, three hits in the second bar. This rhythm is all eighth note and quarter note bass, watch how this one sounds.
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Exercise number three, what we’re going to do is we’re going to play straight eighth notes on a ride cymbal pattern while playing the 3:2 Son Clave with the left hand on the cross stick. Check it out.
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Exercise number four is exactly like exercise number three, but this time we’re going to add the bass drum to the one, the end of two and three and the end of four. So the bass drum is now going to have a pulse of one and two and three and one and two and three and one, watch this one.
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Well, this concludes the section on the Son Clave, so be sure to practice the three two Clave and the two three Clave. You can interchange them just so you can get use to hearing how they sound. So when you start listening to your little Latin music and your hearing Clave in there. You can distinctly understand which one is being played within that song. Enjoy.
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