BASICS OF GUAGUANCO | Cuban Rumba
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- This video shows the basic steps and coordination for guaguanco, connecting to the instruments that make up the most popular rhythm in Cuban rumba.
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• rhythm breakdown
• all basic steps
• body movement and drills for men and ladies
• simple sequence including vacunas and blocks
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• rhythm breakdown
• all basic steps
• body movement and drills for men and ladies
• simple sequence including vacunas and blocks
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Finally! Someone who understands the difference between the rumba clave vs the son clave. You’ll be amazed how many dont even know that claiming its the ‘salsa’ clave when ‘salsa’ is just the commercialized name to the original son.
You put a tremendous amount of work in this video. From the camera work, explanation, comedic flare, and of course the dancing… this is top notch. Well done!
I sincerely appreciate it. Making videos like that was very fun but incredibly time consuming.
...which is why I dont anymore, now I just livestream 😅😅
wasn't expecting the" woman" to be you. i cried!!! :)
and, thank you for this video. i learned a great deal and will check out your other ones.
Hahaha / sorry!
Got me also ^^
bro... i feel u... we cry together :(
Awesome! Thanks for using our song.
thanks for the wonderful breakdown of guaguanco! i didnt know guaguanco is part of cuban rumba family!
What an A-MA-ZING session!!!!!! You are a consummate instructor!!! Thanks so much!
I really appreciate it
Very well done class. Simple, clear and catchy. Loved it!
:) thanks!
Gave me the chillzzzz!!! 😘😘😘 Muchas gracias! 🤩🤩🤩
the best rumba video I've seen so far, and I've seen a lot of them, thank you for such well and simply explained movements without too much talking, simply beautiful, greetings from croatia..
Thank you so much for saying 🙏
You are a great teacher sir.
I sincerely appreciate that
Thank you so much! You are an amazing teacher and dancer
I'm happy to share anything I can :) I've been lucky to have some great teachers.
great breakdown of the basic steps and arm actions...and absolutely love the detailed breakdown of the music! thanks for sharing and keep up your work...we need you out here...!
I really appreciate the continued support.
@@MessinaDance you deserve support!
It's just perfect. Thank you for this valuable information and sharing.
I appreciate your viewership!
Just subscribed, gotta say, love ya man... The vibe you give me while explaining the steps, really convinced me to learn the guaguanco. Next year's trip to Cuba is Santiago De Cuba, thanks to you my time there's gonna be even better!🤣👍👊🕺💃
That is so awesome to hear. I hope you enjoy your trip. See you live tonight :)
thank you for your content! I am working on easing my arms and become more playful.
Love to see your Guaguanco! Thanks for sharing this.
You might enjoy my Guaguanco.
betsyagain.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-guaguanco
Love this. Thanks for breaking this down.
Thanks for watching!
great video. Thank you! I am practicing this now!
OMGGGG!!! min 2.51 totally made my day hahahaha great class! I send you hugs from Seattle!! :)
Love it very much 👍
You, sir, have earned yourself a subscription.
Thanks for watching!
espectacular, well done
Muchisimas gracias por tus videos!!! Esplicaa de manera genial la tecnica sel son y el casino. Un saludo de buenos aires Argentina. Algun dia tomare clases con usted
Thank you for the kind words! I sure would love to visit Argentina :-)
Dudeee, LOVE!!!! Thank you!
Merci 🙏
There will be a full course coming soon 🙌
This was such a great breakdown!! Thank you 👏👏👏
I appreciate it!
awesome info thanksss
Thank *you*
I have many cuban friends and they are salsa teachers and Djs but no one could explain it as you do; easy to grasp :) I love it specially the music part and the difference between the son clave and the Rumba clave :)
I appreciate your kind words!
Thanks for watching 🙏
Thank you so much!!!!!! You are amazing!
Thank you for watching!
Wow this is interesting
awesome
GREAT TEACHER
🙏Thanks so much! 🙌
Great tutorial!!! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great Info, Thank You
Great video. You are amazing. Thanks 👍
Thanks so much for watching
Thank you !
This is gold🔥🙌🕺
I appreciate that very much 🙏
I felt bad about the long delay last time so here is a continuation of last video where we incorporated movements from guaguanco into solo dancing.
We dig a little deeper and explore the basic steps for guaguanco as they relate to the rhythm and instruments of guaguanco.
If you'd like a sample guaguanco sequence with movements for men and women, leave a comment below!
Enjoy, and thanks for watching :)
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thanks for this fantastic video (and the other one). nicely designed, and very helpful content.
Thanka very much 🙏
¡Gracias!
Estoy aprendiendo a bailar salsa, tomando clases y todo. Pero quiero integrar como pasos libres un poco de rumba cubana, bomba puertorriqueña y algo de piquetes caleños.
¡Saludos desde Puerto Rico!
Rock solid explanation tx sharing this with my students
Appreciate the kind words!
Thanks for this!! This was a hreat breakdown!
Thanks so much for watching
Awesome. I always ad-lib to guaguanco because there is no class anywhere around me but I love the rhythm and the dance being from west Africa. This was helpful in learning the basics and coordinating better even though I found I had actually got correct a lot of the elements. Do you have a follow up video for the next level?
Wow, the first time I have found a good explanation! And also a bit of cultural background. Female version was a wonderful pinch of humour
Also helping me with weight transfers in general shines 😊
Thank you for watching 🙏
Привет! Спасибо!👍😊🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great! Just what I was looking for. So many dance posts focus on women. They are both great to watch, but I want to dance with women, not like them. I need to replay this at least a hundred times before I go to Cuba if it's possible before either Covid ends or I die.
It was Flamenco that got me interested in dance back in the Nineties, but I had a massive side-track on the guitarristas. I took dance lessons but I am not well coordinated as I have never been interested in nor played sport.
It was Flamenco Rumba that led me to Cuban music, and I am still exploring.
Am I the only one here who's understanding the real way of dancing guaguanco to make their percussion better? XD
You’re not alone conguero
@@jonathangray6563 🙌🙌Good to know!
by "his", do you mean the teacher? you mean you could do better than this teacher? (if so, please say more.) or do you mean the teacher made you better?
@Jonathon Neville No no i should've said "their" percussion,in the sense my percussion.Came here to understand the dance so that I can make my conga playing better🙌
Habla en español, afro cubano, de Cuba ( español) , bueno tu vídeo, el idioma no cuadra
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Love your videos! They’re really informative and so important for dancers to learn the musicality. My only question is in the very beginning when you have the “rumba” and “son” diagram with the counts and the blue and red X’s. From your diagram, it looks like the rumba is on 1, 2&, 4&, 6, 7. (Disregarding if it’s 2/3 clave or 3/2). However I thought that the count was on 1, 2&, *4*, 6, 7.? Not 4&?
Basically 2 counts between 1 and the 2& and another 2 counts between that and the 4.
Other than that- absolutely incredible! And hilarious when you put the wig on 😂
nicely explained!! ay lol love the lady part jajajajaja
Thanks for watching ;)
Could you do a longer-ish video on the 3 step forward and side (7:35) pleeeease :-D
Cute!
THANK YOU! What would you say is a good mantra or count let's say if you dance on2 but now live in Miami ?!?! Any help would be much appreciated!
Good to see an instructional video on guaguanco, great job. Not trying to detract from what you have done here, but wanted to point out the step you are doing at around 10:05 isn't quite right in regards to the timing. Think you call it a 3-step to the side. Step you are doing is called a Cachan. In the 3 step combo the 1st step is slightly before the 1st beat of the music, I see you are doing it exactly on the beat. If we view the music as 2 counts of 4/4, with counts 1-8 representing quarter notes, you can think of the 1st step as being on an 8th note right before the 1 - lets call it '8 and'. The 2nd step is exactly on 1, the 3rd step on 3. So the full stepping count over 2 bars of 4/4 is '8 and', 1, 3, '4 and', 5, 7. That lead foot is a bit like a dotted rhythm. But any way its a great video!
Ca'chan is for columbia even though many people incorporate it into guaguanco. I like to teach is straight in guaguanco and ca'chan for columbia so that if people want to incorporate it, they first know the conventions. The same way I like a lot of the anesthetic in the feet of columbia styling in guaguanco, I will leave the feet flat for the basic steps.
@@MessinaDance Ok, so your stepping was a deliberate 1,2,3, no problem.
Interesting what you said about Cachan is for Columbia, as it is present in most Guaguancó dances that I have seen dance by Cubans. Tiny sample below:
Alberto Valdes - ua-cam.com/video/YeBgxfCXVWs/v-deo.html
Maykel Fonts (+ Alberto Valdes) - ua-cam.com/video/nLPHVqF_xPA/v-deo.html
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas - ua-cam.com/video/TPqWwldJHI0/v-deo.html
Didio Guevara - ua-cam.com/video/eosgBMDSVa0/v-deo.html
Also it is taught as a basic step in most Guaguancó classes. Not doubting some Cuban instructor told you this, there seems to a lot of difference of opinion between different instructors as what is correct and what is not when it comes to Guaguancó.
Fonts and Alberto you notice are accomplished columbieros. Of course there is mixing in the genres, that is how the dances evolve, but the ca'chan embraces the "swing" of the 6/8 clave in columbia.
@@MessinaDance Just want to go back to the initial point where I think we may have different views. This was the statement you made that made me post the examples above: "Ca'chan is for columbia even though many people incorporate it into guaguanco". Point I am trying to highlight (and I may of not made the point well earlier), is what constitutes a particular move IN or OUT of a dance where there is no canonical form? Multiple credible teachers from Cuba seem to have very different views on what is in Guaguancó and what is not. Some teach without a muelleo and other I have heard say 'without a muello it is not Rumba!' Some teach some active hip movement (Valdes has some active hip movement) but I have heard Havana instructors say 'if you do this you are dancing like the woman'. So there is variation of what is IN and OUT of the dance that is for sure, and the canonical truth you will not hear from a single instructor.
Another issue which you are referencing which I agree to is dances can evolve over time. Did Ca'chan originate with Columbia? (btw I have read cubans spell it as Cachan too!) I am not arguing that it didn't, I have no facts to say for or against. But I can say it is clearly a key part of Guaguancó as danced by Cubans today, as much as Adios, Rodeo and Pasea came from Son and are key elements of Casino. I have a really old Guaguancó video somewhere I will see if I can dig it out and find an example to see how far back Cachan was used in Guaguancó.
In the last comment you made I think you are suggesting Fonts/Alberto add Cachan into their Guaguancó as they including a reference from Columbia. We know Cubans pull in dance 'references' frequently. But I have concluded Cachan is a fundamental element of Guaguancó now because of witnessing it being used in virtually every dance Guaguancó with cubans. Setting aside the use of it by the male (in case as you say its a Columbia reference), it is the primary lateral movement used by the women to quickly put laternal distance between her and the man, or in traversing in front of him. I could find a hundred examples of a women doing this, I doubt that anyone can find many full dances of Cubans doing Guaguancó where a Cachan is not used.
Examples of Cuban women doing Cachan steps
Rumba Guaguancó - "El Solar de los 6" - Casa de Amado - La Habana 2011
ua-cam.com/video/gJVT_5swkhA/v-deo.html @1:29
1989 Root of Rhythm - dancing in Havana
ua-cam.com/video/stUyIFa3DA4/v-deo.html @ 9:50 .
Rumba : Obba Tuke en Callejuela - Santiago de Cuba 2014
ua-cam.com/video/9Ts7wPPwlWY/v-deo.html @ 9:22, 10:00, 25:55
Cuban Rumba - "Espiritu" by Clave Gringa - Callejon de Hamel
ua-cam.com/video/Wi7FFypHLpM/v-deo.html @9:58
Hundreds more....
dang that scene at 2:48 had my attention... 3 seconds later... not as much.
This guy who looks like a greek god, is amazing in his class... id do a rumba class if u teach it. Pls let me know, Im Jay
I’ll wait 😂
Dont encourage me :)
Great class. Have a question. Is the King sound like the 1, if you're looking for the 1,2,3?
Would try to listen to the shekere. (Sounds like a loud maraca) which will usually mark at least 1 or 1 and 5
Thanks for the reply. I bought the app you mention, but I really dont see how I can add the shekere to the guaguanco sección in the app
Can I add other instruments into like the guaguanco , already built in without the shekere if it doesnt have it built in already guaguanco sectiion? I like the app, but dont know if I can add other instruments to the set up rythms like afro, etc
I think they call it maraca
No seriously, at first I lost the idea I was watching a dance lesson video and started eating for a good TV series episode))
and 1, 2 ,3 and 1, 2, 3 maybe considered a variation but it's how I learned cachan
How do you manage to do that sort of wave/bounce/release thing (does it have a proper name?) at exactly 2:47? Looks very good.
EDIT: no it's not actually hard, the hard thing is to make it smooth enough that it looks cool
I'll do a video on muelleo... good idea
Well, this escalated quickly. ^^ Thanks in advance!
I'm curious, do you do this for fun for the UA-cam viewers or do you charge for lessons as well?
I have a join button if people want to contribute. They've been very generous on patreon also. I (used to) teach for a living. Right up until March 2020 🙃
I have tired purchasing the app "percussion tutor" via play store but i recieved an error message. Please help me....
I love your female character :D
whats the name of the app please
I am Cuban and the guaguancó characterizes us. I want to know where you are in Boston?
I live in north carolina
the weight transfer of the last move (three step) is different from the basic guaguanco steps? first move has 2 presses and then weight change and then repeat. the 3 step move keeps changing weight every step
I can explain best in the next rumba video, but general answer is yes
Messina Dance Company thanks, looking forward to the 3 step breakdown! Looks cool!
Where are your classes?
Durham, NC. and the internet 🙌
APP Won't work on Samsung 22U 😢
Is the App one time payment or monthly?
Percussion Tutor. Check them out in ur app store
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Hahah u are funny.
ha! ...including me, this makes 2 people who think so. Thanks boss.
that shit was funny
omg the woman... hahahha
Cutie pie 💯
How did this kind of rumba become ballroom rumba?
Is only guaganco danced like this? Is all authentic Cuban rumba danced like this?
How did danzon (which in videos I've seen is upright and formal (almost stiff) and moderate-pace (not lively)) become rumba?
Ancestry: Contradanza > Danzon > Bolero-Son / Rumba > Son Montuno > Mambo > Cha Cha > Salsa. Yes ?
Ancestry thru a different branch: Bolero-Son > Bolero > American Bolero. (American is much slower)
Ancestry alternative filter: Bolero-Son = Cuban Rumba (?) > American Rumba > International Rumba.
Unfortunately the term "Rumba" has a few different meanings. In this great tutorial video it is meant to represent one of the 3 Afro-Cuban dances that constitute Rumba. 'Rumba' in a ballroom context is a ballroom-ized dance derived from Cuban Son, popularized by 'Monsieur Pierre' and Doris Lavelle. They travelled to Cuba a number of times, learnt Son, renamed it and made it more European / Ballroom in nature. Here is a video of them practicing Son in Havana. I think I read somewhere the date is wrong in this video and it may actually be in the 1950s ua-cam.com/video/oLNf34fdbhw/v-deo.html . They are dancing a form of Son Urbano.
@@nic7144 Thanks! Anyone know why they renamed it? I would guess to avoid confusion with "son" meaning child, but if they didn't want to call it son, why not call it Son Urbano? Why call it rumba (a word which included a variety of dance styles, some looking nothing like what they called rumba)? Not calling it Son saved a little confusion; calling it rumba created more confusion, and partially erased other dances within the rumba family.
Presumably they encountered guaguanco. Presumably they knew the word rumba included guaguanco. I think it would be impossible for them to go to Cuba many times to study dance and never encounter guaguanco, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Maybe they kept returning to the same club, a club where there was only upright dancing.
I watched the entire video. I think you are a very good teacher and your explanations were easily grasped. This dance however looks unattractive and unsophisticated. It appears to lack both grace and fluidity. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though so I presume this dance appears beautiful to you. Regardless of my opinion, if it appeals to you then dance away. I'll stick with the dances that I find appealing.
i prefer the word "Foundation" versus "Basic" ;
Still a waste of valuable educational time . The video is worth 2 hot minutes
Sorry. ONE
Alright Karen.