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Ok, so I'm just a percussionist, and if your only tool is a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail. I get it. And I also get that our songs are our children, so we should be very careful about whom we let them play with.
When I first heard…
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Well, howdy there folks! There is now a full-band incarnation of Cave Street, gigging here in middle Tennessee since November of 2022. It would be swell if you could follow us at: http://facebook.com/cavestreet
Of course, you don't need…
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I was having a play and this one slipped out ....
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
wear pink
you wear blue
Now what the hell are we meant to do
Something inside said has shaken my mind
But I don’t understand…
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3 strats, bass, vocal
There was a place for me
I knew that it was free
Inside your heart
Inside your heart
There was a place for you
And I thought always true
Inside my heart
Inside my heart
I didn't think that it could go
I didn…
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A demonstration of the "glissando" technique of dragging a finger across a conga head.
(Original Lynch song: "Stranger Than Friction")
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Rumba Columbia is a traditional Cuban pattern in 6: the "go-to" pattern for 12/8 - if you have only heard one Afro-Cuban rhythm in 12/8, this is probably it. As an energetic Afro-Cuban dance, Rumba was often suppressed and restricted because it…
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If you have the fever and the only cure is more tambourine, here it is.
MORE TAMBOURINE SOLOS!! (But you should probably wait until you have the house to yourself...)
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*Pilón* reveals a Cuban pattern, traditionally played on Timbales, but in this case on Jr. Congas & Congas (with gated reverberation and flanger effect). The rhythm of Pilón is based on the motions of pounding sugar cane.
A new son reveals…
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