clave

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• In many Afro-Cuban songs, the clave serves as the essential rhythmic foundation that guides the musicians.

• The steady beat can be played on rhythm sticks or a bell, whereas the clave pattern can be performed on claves or on bottles with a metal striker or a coin.

  Academic text (2011)

• Have the class play along with the recording, allowing the clave pattern to enter first and then adding the steady stick or bell pattern.

  Academic text (2011)

• Challenge students to step to the steady beat and clap the clave pattern.

  Academic text (2011)

• 7. Divide the class in half, with one half clapping the steady beat and the other half clapping the clave pattern.

  Academic text (2011)

• Clave, then, is a rhythmic element that cuts across boundaries between Latino groups.

  Academic text (1991)

• Matt kneels down and holds the maraca to his ear and a clave to his mouth as if he were getting a call to tell him the plane was landing.

  Academic text (2015)

• We're feeling the upbeat a lot of the times we've been playing against the Clave without that clobby moving an iota here.

  Rick Beato

• Ask the students to figure out where the steady beat would fall and guide them to notate that pattern (four dotted quarters) underneath the clave pattern.

  Academic text (2011)

• The drummer emphasized the clave pattern to keep the energy high during the performance.

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Etymology