Play the clave and use basic elements of latin rhythm

Play the clave and use basic elements of latin rhythm

In this latin music video, Dafnis Prieto, a drummer and professor of Percussion at NYU's Steinhardt School, explains the clave. The clave is the basic element of Latin percussion style, and how cross-rhythms such as the cascara are layered on top of the clave to produce more complex patterns.

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