Montuno has several meanings pertaining to Cuban music and its derivatives. Literally, montuno means 'comes from the mountain', and so son montuno may refer to the older type of son played in the mountainous rural areas of Oriente .

A piano montuno is a distinctive, highly syncopated accompaniment pattern found in Cuban music. Piano montunos are based on a repeated rhythm that lasts for two measures. The most common montuno rhythm is shown below.

2023年1月13日 · Learn how to play the most iconic piano montuno (Latin piano progression) with Kevin Castro, pro pianist with JESSIA and other artists.

This video is part of a series of practical keyboard tutorials for those interested in a career as a gigging/recording musician. In the series on reading ch...

2012年3月19日 · In today's Latin Roots segment we're looking at montuno, a kind of syncopated piano vamp often used in traditional Cuban music, and tumbao, what the piano is doing when the pianist performs ...

2020年4月1日 · What has always appealed to me about Afro-Cuban music is that it's simultaneously pianistic and percussive. Unlike in traditional jazz, the piano's role is often to play a repetitive rhythmic pattern known as the montuno or tumbao.

Son montuno is a subgenre of son cubano developed by Arsenio Rodríguez in the 1940s. Although son montuno ("mountain sound") had previously referred to the sones played in the mountains of eastern Cuba, Arsenio repurposed the term to denote a highly sophisticated approach to the genre in which the montuno section contained complex horn ...

Download sheet music and audio play-alongs for piano, bass and percussions (Salsa, Son-montuno, Guajira, Merengue, Cumbia and more). Playmontuno.com is the first and greatest online database and resource for latin musicians. Here, beginners and professionals can find hundreds of montunos note-for-note transcriptions from original recordings.

2019年3月2日 · A montuno is a two-measure improvised pattern that you can use to add some authentic Afro-Cuban spice to your Latin-style playing. This pattern follows the clave. A clave is the foundation of nearly all Latin music. In our examples we will be using the 2-3 clave, which refers to how many hits are in each measure.

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