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Tonight, we congregated at Brett's house to go over some tunes. After warming up on some of the old stand-bys, we started to work over the Roho song. For starters, we renamed it to Red Leaves -- Roho is a bit too similar to Soho (one of our other pieces).
Unfortunately, it has been a while since the last time we rehearsed, so we couldn't quite remember how it went. I had written down the chord progression, the blocking and some general rhythmic notes, but Shahin didn't bring it with him. We started to go through it anyway, but we floundered about for a bit until we could recall how things were supposed to go.
Another problem arose between me and Brett. From what I could remember, Brett was playing a 3/2 clave for the mainstay of the tune. Brett thought he was playing a 2/3. The two of us tried to work it out for a bit, and we finally figured out what was going on. Brett was playing a modified 2/3 clave: Instead of the 2 starting on 1 and a half (eighth rest, two eight notes) followed by the three (dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter note), he was shifting the clave forward in the measure one eighth note.
This style of clave works, grounds the one and still keeps a Latin feel to the groove. It's almost rumba-like. We changed to the song to use the modified clave throughout the song, shifting to the standard 3/2 clave in the chorus section for a "going back home" feel.
Posted by Casper at June 6, 2004 07:56 PM