I would love to have your strumming skills! You look so at ease, so comfortable, even as you are doing things that seem so technically challenging! I have two questions, inspired by your performance:
- what is this instrument? I looks big for a ukulele, but only has four strings…is it a Venezuelan thing? I’d love to learn to play like you! …which brings me to my second question:
- What is this style of music called? I really would love to play beautiful sounds like you, but for now, I’m really thrilled to watch great players like you :)
blessings brother thank you for appreciating my humble work, always being hand in hand with the one above for showing my musical genre to the world.
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1 - This musical instrument is autochthonous of Venezuela and is called cuatro, it is the number 4 but in Spanish; its most used technique is the charrasqueo that is used to accompany the Venezuelan musical genres; today the cuatro is universal and can play any music.
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2 - The musical genre that I interpret in the video is the gaita zuliana, a musical genre which tells the life of the zuliano and Venezuelans; it touches topics such as poverty, corruption, devotion to god, happiness, the feelings of the people, among other topics that reflect our daily life, I hope you like it, the most important exponents are:
Cardenales del exito
conjunto saladillo de RQ
Maragaita
Gaiteros de Pillopo
Koquimba
Alitasia
Los Chiquinquireños
Gaitero Song
La Trova Gaitero
Birimbao
Gran Coquivacoa
Among others.......
Wow, this is excellent, thank you! The genre sounds about perfect as you described it! It is these same qualities that drew me to learn to play Quena like Uña Ramos - traditional Andean flute music similarly speaks to the hopes, dreams, sufferings and faith of a proud and beautiful nation! Thank you for this sincere and detailed response my friend!