Latin American

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Latin American Music
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How many of you have cooked using a recipe?
What does a typical recipe usually ask you to do?
Mix and blend items together to make a new food
product.
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Just like a recipe, blending of cultural
traditions can create new traditions reflecting
multiple cultures.
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Latin American Music is an example of how
cultures can be changed through the blending of
other cultures.
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Latin American Music Characteristics

• Highly SYNCOPATED rhythms.

• IMPROVISED drumming

• Variety of PERCUSSION instruments

• Clave rhythm

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Where did the style of Latin American Music come
from?
LETS FIND OUT!!!
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WHERE IS LATIN AMERICA?
Latin America is located just south of North
America and north of South America.
North America
Latin America
South America
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The First Ingredient of Latin Music. The early
Spanish and Portuguese settlers. They brought
with them their folk songs, dances, church music
and instruments (guitars) from their native
lands. They also brought over their harmonies
and rhythms.
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
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The Second Ingredient of Latin Music The second
ingredient came from inside Latin America itself.
The melodies and rhythms of the ancient Indians
(Mayans and Aztecs) were also incorporated.
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The Third Ingredient The third ingredient came
from the Africans brought over to Latin America
as slaves.
The addition of the Africans melodies and
SYNCOPATED rhythms gave the music of Latin
America an African flavor which it has never lost.
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The Styles of Latin Music
There are many styles of Latin music that are
reflected in American Music. Lets take a look
at a few
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SAMBA

• African-Brazilian dance

• Highly Syncopated

• Improvised Drumming

• Uses a variety of percussion instruments

Guitar
Hi-Hat Cymbals
Claves
Drum
Ago-go Bells
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SALSA
Cowbell

• Afro-Caribbean music and American Jazz and Rock

• Main Percussion Instrument is the CLAVES which
  play over the top of many different rhythms.

Claves
Timbales
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CHA-CHA

• Cuban dance

• Created from the shoes tapping on the floor which
  creates a new rhythm

• It's fun, energetic, sexy and flirtatious
• easily distinguished from other dances
• by its addictive "Step, Step, Cha-Cha-Cha"
  rhythm.

• Authentic Cha-Cha uses Cowbell, Cascara (side of
  the Timbale), Clave, Conga, and Guiro.

Conga Drums
Guiro
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So what does this have to do with our music
today?
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A lot of pop songs include Latin music
characteristics.
Carlos Santana
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In the 1980s Gloria Estefan and The Miami
Sound Machine
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Jennifer Lopez a.k.a. J-LO
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Shakira
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CAN YOU THINK OF ANYMORE LATIN INFLUENCED MUSIC?
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Michael Buble
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Ricky Martin
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Christmas
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Latin American Music Characteristics

• 1. Blending of different cultures
• Spanish and Portuguese settlers Spanish
  instruments, melodies and harmony
• African American Slaves Syncopated Rhythms and
  percussion
• Ancient Indians - Mayans and Aztecs Melodies
  and Syncopated Rhythms

2. Use of syncopated rhythms (Stress on the weak
parts of the beat).
3. Improvised (made up as you go along) Drumming
4. Variety of Percussion Instruments Claves,
conga drums, cowbell, hi-hat cymbals, timbales,
guiro, guitar
5. Clave Rhythms
6. Types of Latin Music Salsa, Samba, and
Cha-Cha