Spanish terms

[burke]

Hi Guys,

BIG favour to ask. A real teacher finally moved to my province who graduated from the National Art Institute in Havana and we our first lesson Thursday. It was great but his English is a little better than my Spanish [I know about 6 words]. Like I said a great lesson but here were a few blank stares between us.

I can buy a translation book for the easy stuff or use google [hand, finger etc.] but I don’t trust that for the conga specific terms [ open tone, slap, heel/toe etc.]. I think I know some correct terms but would rather get the ‘for sure’ right words. Anyone up for the challenge of providing a basic conga vocabulary I can use?

He’s here for the next 11 months and I plan to try to make it at least twice a month and we are in touch via email - I’d like to send him a vocabulary as this might help him with the rest of us ‘gringos’ [one of my 6 words].

For the record I did search “Spanish” in the forum and 33 pages later didn’t find the list I’d hoped to find.

Gracias hermanos [2 more of the 6 words I know ... I’m not counting "¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!"]

Darrell

[pavloconga]

Hi burke,
Great to hear you've found yourself a teacher.
I'm not a native speaker of español but I have a basic grasp of the language and spent a few months in Cuba learning with teachers who spoke espanol only.

This is my understanding of the different sounds that relate to congas:

the hand : la mano

left hand: izquierda

right hand: derecha

hand position: posicion de la mano

Open tone: tono abierto

slap: seco

closed / muffled slaps : tapao

semi slap: semi-seco

open slap: seco abierto

mufffle tone: ahogado

bass: bajo

palm/tip heel/toe: palma/dedos

sound: sonido

example: ejemplo

rhythm: ritmo

exercise: ejercicios

changing rhythm: cambiando de ritmo

fuerté!: play harder!


Hope this helps,

Pavlo

[burke]

That is exactly what I need.

Muchas gracias Pavlo!

You da man!

[burke]

Yes you mentioned Jose Sanchez in another post IIRC.

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