Quinto (drum)
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The quinto is the smallest and highest pitched type of conga drum. It is used as the lead drum in Cuban rumba styles such as guaguancó, yambú, columbia and guarapachangueo, and it is also present in c
Oak Gon Bop quinto drum, c. 1976
The fundamental quinto lock strokes (top line) are a displaced "clave".
Alternating tone-slap melody quinto lock phrase
Bare-bones Columbia quinto lock
Tumbao
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In music of Afro-Cuban origin, tumbao is the basic rhythm played on the bass. In North America, the basic conga drum pattern used in popular music is also called tumbao. In the contemporary form of Cu
Quinto (drum)
…salsa, and Latin jazz, are often based on the quinto vocabulary. Quinto phrasing is also used as a means of varying the ostinato conga drum part called tumbao (see songo music). The quinto plays within two main rhythmic modes, corresponding to the two main modes of rumba dancing…
Bombo-ponche tumbao.
Top: clave. Bottom: basic conga tumbao on one drum. S: slap, O: open tone, h: palm heel, t: finger tips.
Basic form of songo tumbadoras part. Triangle notehead: high-pitched drum slap; regular noteheads: high and low drum open tones.