What is Latin drums?
Latin drums is a term used to group a set of drum tools that are characterized by Latin American music.
Latin drums often deals with ostinato and agogo bells are Ostinato tools such as pavles, and unwavering metal bells like Cowbell. They come in sets of three or four bells and are tuned to approximately a third apart.
Bongo drums or bongos are single -headed junk drums, mounted in pairs. Traditionally, it takes place between the knees and playing by hand, they can be mounted and playing with sticks or sticks. Congas, another type of drum, are high drums set in a rack or inclined towards a seated player, so the open bottom is not closed by the floor. It is also traditionally played by hand in different ways, although it can be played with sticks.
Cabaça, Cabasa, Cabaza or Afuche, as is known, is a gourd or other container on the handle, surrounded by plastic or metal beads. The tool is held with one hand and turned the DruHou and creates a rough sound as the beads rub on their heads.
Castanets are the European origin and may be best known for their use in the "Seguidilla" Georges Bizet in their opera Carmen . Locked with Spain, they are used to evoke the culture of this country, whether in the form of castanettes, paddle castenes or concert castanettes that are mounted on the board, but now also characterized by the Latin drum section.
Klavy is pairs of roller rods made of hardwood, which have a length of about 6 inches (15 cm). The percussionist rolles one stick, not clamped, but rests on the top of the fingered fingers and the other is used to put it. The keyboards contribute to the overall sound of Latin drums and play Ostinato in tanks such as Conga, Samba and Rumba.
Cowbells are considered drums, although they also have roots in European music-where the same model is used around the neck of a cow canBeing used to create music-and also for a standard place in Latin dance bands. Originally categorized as low, medium and high models were created after the composers of the twentieth century have created a demand.
Maracas, a form of Latin percussion, which is often used in pairs in Latin American music, but individually in other environments. Constructed from an ancient, can be tapped, shaken or swirled to create different sounds that are often used to contribute to Ostinato patterns. Guiro is another Latin American gourd tool, played by scratching the tough top with a wand.