The timbales and the clave play. Press Play; the Timbales card switches between the cáscara and the mambo bell.
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This is how the parts of the rhythm section fall on the dancer's count: eight beats over two bars, steps on 1-2-3 and 5-6-7. Clave 2-3: two strokes in the first bar, three in the second; in 3-2 the pattern starts from the second bar, and both bells and the cáscara shift with it. The timbalero plays the mambo bell instead of the cáscara in the loud sections, together with the bongo bell.
| Count | 1 | & | 2 | & | 3 | & | 4 | & | 5 | & | 6 | & | 7 | & | 8 | & |
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| Clave clave | ||||||||||||||||
| Bongo bell campana | ||||||||||||||||
| Mambo bell campana | ||||||||||||||||
| Congas tumbadoras | ||||||||||||||||
| Bongos martillo | ||||||||||||||||
| Güiro güiro | ||||||||||||||||
| Cáscara cáscara | ||||||||||||||||
| Piano montuno | ||||||||||||||||
| Bass tumbao |
The cáscara is the pattern the timbalero plays with a stick on the metal shell of the drum. The sound is dry and quiet, so the cáscara is played in the calm sections of a song: the verses and under a piano solo.
The pattern takes two bars and follows the clave: accented strokes alternate with quieter ones.
In the loud sections: when the chorus and the horns come in, the timbalero moves from the shell to the bell. The mambo bell sounds together with the bongocero's campana, and the two make the dense ringing that marks the peak of a song.
Three. Cáscara is the pattern on the shell. Cáscara with drum on 4 adds a stroke on the drum on “four” and “eight”. Mambo bell is the bell for the loud sections.
The timbales tell you the form of the song. A dry cáscara means a calm section; the move to the bell means the music is building. Dancers use this to change the character of the dance with the music.
More topics: Salsa rhythm · Clave 2-3 and 3-2 · Counting in eight · Salsa metronome · Congas: tumbao · Campana · Montuno and bass · the whole trainer and general questions