For more information visit http://salsablanca.com/ethno/<br /><br />Learn about the Cuban laud and learn a son-montuno pattern.<br /><br />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".<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />http://salsablanca.com/products/
