Changui Music from Guantanamo Cuba

Learn about the Cuban tres, bongos and learn a traditional changüi pattern. Changüi is from the eastern part of Cuba, specifically Baracoa. Changüi came from the fusion of two earlier genres, nengon and kiribá. One point of confusion many musicians have is when a song is really changüí. Changüi is really part of the son family, but, unlike son, clave had not been developed so the pulse is basically just quarter notes. Changüi is also defined more by instrumentation than actual patterns, although being a newer style, it is also more rhythmically complex than either nengon or kiribá. It is much more syncopated and instead of one repeated pattern, many songs copy the voice a 3rd or 6th higher and then repeat a pattern when there is no singing. This pattern may change after each verse. This video was made in Cuba in 1999, in my backyard, and it features a typical pattern on the tres. After that introduction a