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For the past few weeks Luisito Morales has been taking part of Sandy Perez Saturday lesson. He is a cousin of sandy and has been staying at Sandy's in Oakland

He is a great guy and had the house rocking with his traditional 4 drum part Iyesa on sticks and hands. He rotates the class and everyone has to play the individual parts on Drum or Bell or Sticks. No ducking out.

Next week will be his last, he will be surely missed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ-5HUyn19k

There's a few videos of those guys, been watching them, truly incredible, not to mention how good those mopercs sound.
PC

Those guys are all great musicians. Luisito, Deyvis and Figurin can make any drum sound good, their sound is more about their technique than the brand of drum or skin. Excellent demonstration of the basics of guaguanco matancero as played by both Afrocuba de Matanzas and Los Muñequitos. Luisito has his own technique on the seis por ocho (tres dos) part, hitting the bass on the bombo with his left hand, but he makes it sound good. For the basic parts, he is an excellent teacher, and knows lots of folkloric styles from Matanzas. Deyvis (tumbador) is around 20 years old and is a monster on quinto and iya.

jorge wrote:Luisito has his own technique on the seis por ocho (tres dos) part, hitting the bass on the bombo with his left hand, but he makes it sound good.

I've never seen any of your posts be wrong, so when my first reaction was, "no way! That's traditional style", I then had to go back and look again. Sure enough, though he enters with the regular even note pattern, as soon as the pace quickens, he starts lifting on the basses at the bombo - with left hand. Tricky!
I love the ending where everyone leaves out the "one", but Figurin screws it up by hitting the "one" and everyone points and laughs.

jorge wrote:Those guys are all great musicians. Luisito, Deyvis and Figurin can make any drum sound good, their sound is more about their technique than the brand of drum or skin. Excellent demonstration of the basics of guaguanco matancero as played by both Afrocuba de Matanzas and Los Muñequitos. Luisito has his own technique on the seis por ocho (tres dos) part, hitting the bass on the bombo with his left hand, but he makes it sound good. For the basic parts, he is an excellent teacher, and knows lots of folkloric styles from Matanzas. Deyvis (tumbador) is around 20 years old and is a monster on quinto and iya.

Yes, a badass is a badass regardless of the drum, but those drums sound really good.
PC