Rhythmic breaks or unison hits played by the whole band, often interrupting the flow to create surprise and tension. These are choreographed and add drama, excitement, and syncopation.
Rhythmic breaks or unison hits played by the whole band, often interrupting the flow to create surprise and tension. These are choreographed and add drama, excitement, and syncopation.
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Interruptive role: The bloque is a sudden, tightly coordinated rhythmic break. It disrupts the ongoing groove (tumbao, coro, or guĂas).
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Cue for change: Right after the bloque, the band often launches into a new âgearâ (a new rhythmic feel, coro, or piano tumbao). In this sense, the bloque
Lees meer >Rhythmic breaks or unison hits played by the whole band, often interrupting the flow to create surprise and tension. These are choreographed and add drama, excitement, and syncopation.
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Interruptive role: The bloque is a sudden, tightly coordinated rhythmic break. It disrupts the ongoing groove (tumbao, coro, or guĂas).
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Cue for change: Right after the bloque, the band often launches into a new âgearâ (a new rhythmic feel, coro, or piano tumbao). In this sense, the bloque
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Origins
Inventor: Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655â1731), an Italian instrument maker in Florence.
Date: Around 1700, Cristofori built the first instrument he called a âgravicembalo col piano e forteâ â meaning harpsichord with soft and loud.
Reason for invention: Harpsichords (the main keyboard instrument of the 1600s) could not vary loudness by touch. Cristofori solved this by using hammers to strike strings instead of plucking them.
Mechanism: When a key was pressed, a felt-covered hammer struck the string, producing sound with dynamics depending on how hard or softly the key was played.
