Groove 42 SONGO SLOW Track 75 ~ LAS A SSS ee =] ud Variation A Variation B les) We seuss] Jee | et eS, is Spe SS Thre rp ry 1p rp F SLOW sonao —{XBINO BY Puno ONLY (A) 4X PX APR wT AX pee. cor . af) Hallelujah! An Afro-Cuban groove actually created for the drumset! Until now, we've been borrowing parts from {he percussionists and applying ther to the drumset; now, we have something to call our own. Please don't use ‘he songo as a blanket groove for everything that evan remotely sounds Latin. The songo is @ great groove, but doesn't fit everywhere. Look at the figure in the very last ber of the chart. Lock familiar? It should, because i's the same seary figure we lust Saw and discussed in “Groove 41 Fast.” only this time it’s written in 4/4 instead of 2/2 (cut-time!. Another Shared trait from the previous chart is that we stop clean many times on the lest sixteenth-noto of a bar, such as {he next-tolast bar on the first line. This is signature sound of Latin and much sixteenth-noto based music, i's critical You play this important rhythmic feature with control, and without losing the time or the groove. Variation A is an example of a songo with less inner motion on the toms than the main groove. Variation B is a ‘Completely different approach that is tough to play but sounds wonderful when played well