Greetings from Puerto Rico! I had been looking through your videos of Brazilian batucada rhythms ever since I joined a Batucada in college, but finding these videos of my island's native percussion is a very nice and unexpected surprise. The nuances of the rhythms (and the extra info) are spot on by the way, quite impressive video series overall.
Thank you for the compliment! And for tuning part, I tune the congas different. It may sounds stupid, but when I think a rhythm has a melancholic atmosphere I tune the tones closer together. For the happy rhythms the intervals between the congas are bigger. This is of course a pure personal interpretation....
excelente video y muy didáctico. saludos desde San Juan Argentina. si puede para los próximos videos poner subtitulos en castellano para los que no manejamos bien el inglés
as far as i know accordion its not a common instrument in plena, but you might be right. however, since that moment plena is played with 3 pleneras and a guiro jibaro, the other instruments are interchangeable, and if we going to add a strings instrument to the regular beat it should be a cuatro puertorriqueno. that is plena de puerto rico.
Very well made, at least here in Ponce (sicá) the accent is in the bass. The problem is that the conga doesn't as much resonance, especially in the lower range, compared to the barril.
Michael,are the sticks you are hitting the cata with drumsticks turned the other way? i've just made a cata out of an old bamboo rainstick i got from e carboot for £2.wasnt sure what sticks to use.cheers love the videos.
Hello, I didn't say accordion is a common instrument in plena, but an original instrument used in plena. It is registered. Cuatro has never been part of the plena, it was the guitar. This is a new trend. I think you are confusing with aguinaldos/parranda, when they mix música jíbara and música de plena; panderos and cuatro.
+An Trodai You're quite right but nowadays we make do with what we have. Most latin bands here in NYC can only travel with a conga and a tumbadora. It would be unrealistic to attempt to travel with a buleador and a subidor just to play bomba whenever the band decides. That's ok with a traditional bomba and plena band but most latin bands play dozens of rhythms. Most high level musicians have agreed that it's very acceptable and it's as close as you can get. Even more so because the rhythms are being played correctly.
The congas he uses, and the barril's from PR rum barrels, don't sound like the dgembe's or nagoma's from Ghana and the Congo where these people and rhythms come from either.
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Greetings from Puerto Rico! I had been looking through your videos of Brazilian batucada rhythms ever since I joined a Batucada in college, but finding these videos of my island's native percussion is a very nice and unexpected surprise. The nuances of the rhythms (and the extra info) are spot on by the way, quite impressive video series overall.
I loved this lesson! My parents are Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 You played La Bomba excellently.
Thank you very much, Alicia! I hope you will enjoy part 2 and 3 too!
wepaa 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇩🇴
Bomba Holandes es mi favorita. Muchas gracias por el video, ese un buen educador!
Great quality materials, thank you very much ❤
You're welcome. Enjoy it!!
Well, today the second part of the bomba's is on TH-cam! Enjoy it!
Bendice este tipo Dios
Hi Francis, nice to meet you here and thank you for your complements!!
Your videos are always Awesome Mr. Miranda 🇵🇷🌷
I am really glad that you are enjoying my videos, Jane!
Well Roberto, I have to thank you for sending this valuable information about this subject! Thank you very much!!
Amazing work Gracias maestro 🔥🔥🔥🔥
excelente maestro. muchas gracias y bendiciones desde colombia.
De nada, Carlos! Y muchas gracias! Saludos desde Holanda!
Thank you for the compliment! And for tuning part, I tune the congas different. It may sounds stupid, but when I think a rhythm has a melancholic atmosphere I tune the tones closer together. For the happy rhythms the intervals between the congas are bigger. This is of course a pure personal interpretation....
Sou aluna de Educação Musical e gostei!
Paz!
Your welcome! I hope you will enjoy the next 2 video's about bomba too!
Instructivo. Excelente pero... ¿Por qué en inglés?
No hay ritmo como la bomba,gracias.
thanks for schooling people, not a lot musician know this...
Yes, they are drumsticks turned the other way. Sometimes I use timbales sticks. For this cata I like to use thicker sticks.
How does your cata sound?
Yes, that's also a bomba. That version is played on 3 congas. Very nice!
Prazer em conhecê-lo aqui. Aprecie os vídeos!
Examples in recordings of the substyles???
Wow, Thank you for the video it sounds great
great thanks michael.
pedro colon You're welcome, Pedro!
Thank you!
u should play plena in plena there are 3 Pleneras and d Cuatro guitar....keep d good job ur a great teacher...
The original plena from 1900 had one pandero, accordion and guitar.
Thanks! I have a lesson about Plena too on my channel. But without the cuatro..... I can't play cuatro. Enjoy it!
muchas gracias!
Excelent Master 👍
Thank you, Chris!
Thank you Wally!!
Thank you!!
Is this a one conga pattern? The notation makes it look like there should be a second conga being played as we'll.
Is there a part 2
Ya hi I have a proyect from music class and the theme is bomba and this can give me an A +
Hi Gabriela, I wish you good luck with your project! I have also made 2 other video's about bomba.
Excelente vídeo! Ahora si puedo sacarle un buen sonido a no Djembe :D saludos desde PR!
bravo...great ritmo..i see other videos.ist good..were is your escuela?ciao
Thank you! My school is in Rotterdam, Holland.
ok thank you..percussiones..when you do Others video..i listen....ciao.
excelente video y muy didáctico. saludos desde San Juan Argentina. si puede para los próximos videos poner subtitulos en castellano para los que no manejamos bien el inglés
Me pregunto por qué está hablando en inglés. Nosotros los puertorriqueños hablamos en español.
¡¡qué guay!!
you are great
Thank you very much!!
as far as i know accordion its not a common instrument in plena, but you might be right. however, since that moment plena is played with 3 pleneras and a guiro jibaro, the other instruments are interchangeable, and if we going to add a strings instrument to the regular beat it should be a cuatro puertorriqueno. that is plena de puerto rico.
Very well made, at least here in Ponce (sicá) the accent is in the bass. The problem is that the conga doesn't as much resonance, especially in the lower range, compared to the barril.
It is a pity that I don't have traditional barrils, but I tried to explain it correctly. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Hey! I appreciate the instructional, what corrections would point out about the video since it came out?
Michael,are the sticks you are hitting the cata with drumsticks turned the other way? i've just made a cata out of an old bamboo rainstick i got from e carboot for £2.wasnt sure what sticks to use.cheers love the videos.
Legaaaaal
Great Video!! Is Gloria Estefan - Mi Tierra a variation of Bomba as well?
yes!
Hello, I didn't say accordion is a common instrument in plena, but an original instrument used in plena. It is registered. Cuatro has never been part of the plena, it was the guitar. This is a new trend. I think you are confusing with aguinaldos/parranda, when they mix música jíbara and música de plena; panderos and cuatro.
Que Rica es los ritmos de bomba. Harlem Larry G la toca como e tambo.
Bomba is a place its where you go to worship it is like a church there are always 4 elements drum dance singing and silence
Important to know that the drum he is using is not a Bomba drum, or Barril. Sound is compromised with odds in the instrument
+An Trodai
You're quite right but nowadays we make do with what we have. Most latin bands here in NYC can only travel with a conga and a tumbadora. It would be unrealistic to attempt to travel with a buleador and a subidor just to play bomba whenever the band decides. That's ok with a traditional bomba and plena band but most latin bands play dozens of rhythms. Most high level musicians have agreed that it's very acceptable and it's as close as you can get. Even more so because the rhythms are being played correctly.
+tropicvibe Thanks!
Honestly the Conga sounds better then the barril.
The congas he uses, and the barril's from PR rum barrels, don't sound like the dgembe's or nagoma's from Ghana and the Congo where these people and rhythms come from either.
@@Mangocowbell What are you trying to say? Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic have their own sound, just saying...
Hi Cheri, nice to meet you here! What kind of blog do you have? Perhaps you can send me a link and of course if I can help you, that's no problem.
Which conga is that?
It is a tumba (from Cuba).
Oh! So it's handmade. No wonder I didn't see a label.
In Puerto rico we call it barril to the ones we use cause it was made from barrels.
it sounds good but maybe a bit too deep because of the diameter of the bamboo.ok for £2 though!
Good lesson; but you should have used a barril, not a timba.
Hello Michael. Bomba it's a mname of the instrument.
Thank you!!!!
You're welcome!