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Within this course, you will learn: Basic Playing technique for Cavaquinho. Basic Chords and Progressions. The primary strumming pattern for Cavaquinho. Strumming exercises and song practices. The course starts with an introduction of the Cavaco and some important aspects of how to select strings and how to tune your instrument.
A short history of the Puerto Rican cuatro and its musicby William Cumpiano, coordinator of the Puerto Rican Cuatro Project. The Cuatro is Puerto Rico's "national instrument."Smaller than a guitar and larger than a mandolin, the cuatro's distinctive, nasal twang has been loved by Puerto Ricans since the early days of Puerto Rico's colonial past.
Puerto Rican cuatro. The Puerto Rican cuatro (Spanish: cuatro puertorriqueño) is the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It belongs to the lute family of string instruments, and is guitar -like in function, but with a shape closer to that of the violin. The word cuatro means "four", which was the total number of strings of the earliest Puerto ...
Venezuelan Concert Cuatro. The predecessor of the Venezuelan cuatro is the four-string Spanish renaissance guitar which disappeared in the 16th century after a short period of surging popularity. In the 1950s, Fredy Reyna documented the evolution of the renaissance guitar into the current Venezuelan Cuatro, and reinvented the cuatro as a solo ...
The cuatro is a family of Latin American string instruments played in Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. It is derived from the Spanish guitar. Although some have viola-like shapes, most cuatros resemble a small to mid-sized classical guitar. In Puerto Rico and Venezuela, the cuatro is an ensemble instrument for secular and religious music, and is played at ...
The cavaquinho started its long journey around the world in Portugal. Not only because of its small size it was a perfect travel companion of many sailors an...
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