Learn to play Cuban Music, the Cuban Laud & Son Montuno

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Learn about the Cuban laud and learn a son-montuno pattern.

Son is generic term but it refers to a song with a repeating pattern and no real B section. The song we are showing today is son montuno, this means it has a B section. This is where all the musicians "kick it up", and the pattern is called "tumbao".

This music is almost always played as a head or verse section that may repeat and usually has a harmonic change in the B or "coro" section. This coro section is improvisation, both vocally and musically with the underlying "tumbaos", it could be bass or tres or laud or even piano being the glue.

This was recorded at the Escuela Nacional de Artes in Havana Cuba, and features the basic pattern and also some improvisation that would be played in son montuno.

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