Afro-Cuban Jam
(Downtown Los Angeles)
Haven't had a chance to play music in a while?
Interested in exploring the music, rhythms, and songs of Cuba?
CANTAR - TOCAR - RUMBA! VEN A GOZAR!
Experience and explore the traditional Afro-Cuban styles of Rumba (Yambu, Guaguancó, Columbia) and Congo (Makuta). Harmonize your voice, hands and soul and synchronize the rhythms and inter-locking patterns that make this music timeless. For singers and drummers with prior music-making experience in any tradition.
Audio examples of one of the songs we will learn/play as well as a lyric sheet. These are in a style called Makuta.
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Makuta Lyrics (PDF)
Throughout the course of the series, our goal is to provide a multitude of resources to help you Get Your Chops Back - songs will be accompanied by audio files to hear the music more clearly, and percussion and vocal parts will be made into separate tracks. In some cases, every individual part will be available as a separate audio file for you to practice/learn (conga patterns, vocal harmonies, etc.). If needed, some music notation will also be available as well.
Get Your Chops Back (GYCB) is a series of learning workshops in a stress-free, non-judgmental environment for adult recreational musicians with prior music-making experience/basic playing skills and who have not made music for a while.
Afro-Cuban Jam:
Familiarity with reading music is helpful but not required. Music will be shared in the aural tradition i.e. listen, imitate, and learn. Drummers, kindly provide your own conga drum (sorry, no other drums please); for singers, prior experience can be in any vocal style.
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LOCATION
Afro-Cuban Jam workshops will be held at the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA located at 401 S. Hope St. in Downtown Los Angeles. For more information, please visit ymcala.org
REGISTER ONLINE: Registration period is now closed. If you're interested in participating in Afro-Cuban Jam, please email activearts@musicccenter.org for more information.
*Parking is available for $2 for three hours with validation from Ketchum-Downtown YMCA.
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