Cuban Masters Series - Piano (cha-cha-chá)

In this episode, Emilio Morales (pianist with Paulito FG, Los Nuevo Amigos, and others), talks about and plays cha-cha-chá on the piano.

Transcript

The cha-cha-chá is a style that is majestic in essence.

This is an example of a famous Cuban cha-cha-chá pattern, whose chorus goes: (plays the piano).

“Drink chocolate, pay what you owe, drink chocolate and pay what you owe.”

The bass, which as I said before, should always be kept in mind by the pianist, would go like… (plays the piano and the bass) …and while the bass is going like this, the piano responds with a type of counterpoint: (plays a montuno)

The first thing that a pianist must do in order to establish a montuno (whether it be a cha-cha-chá, a son, a guaracha, or any style of Cuban music), is to have a clear notion of the harmonic progressions he will use.

If the harmony were like this: AM (plays the chord), D7 (plays the chord), GMAJ7 (plays the chord), and EM (plays the chord), he has to find a way, a harmonic link that would bind them all.

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