Mi música - Havana 'd Primera Examples – Music
Mi Musica, a timba anthem, has as many as 5 presion parts
use Original or Ian Stewart on bass
- Intro
- Cuerpo
- Verse 1
- Verse 2
- Bridge / Transition
- Montuno (coro / pregón and gear changes 1–4)
- Presión (gear change 1)
- Coro / Pregón 1x
- Presión with efectos (gear change 2)
- Coro / Pregón 2
- Big presión with efectos, 4 claves (gear change 3)
- Masacote: congas come in on the 5th clave
- Coro / Pregón 3
- Masacote, ends with a cool bloque (gear change 4)
- Coro / Pregón 4 (final montuno)
- Finale and outro
- Masacote, building up to heavy congas (gear change 5)
- Outro
Some timelines for confirmation of correctness.
Mi Musica, a timba anthem, has as many as 5 presion parts: 1:59-2:10, 2:58-3:11, 3:40-4:02, 4:30-4:52, and 5:10-5:33
- 1:58 presión (Kevin said that if the conguero does a simple no-tone pattern it's still presión not masacote)
- 2:58 presión with efectos
- 3:39 - big presión with efectos for 4 claves
- 3:50 - congas come in at the 5th clave so now it's masacote
- 4:30 - masacote ends with cool bloque
- 5:10 - masacote that increases in intensity with each clave until it has heavy congas by the end
Videos
Here's Osbanis dancing to Mi música.
He does a lot of rumba stuff but also some despelote. What is also interesting here is to see how he marks the efectos as well. That is something you get a lot more of in Cuban music than in regular salsa and it is really cool when people do something about it and don't just ignore it. source
bassist and timba expert Ian Stewart playing Mi musica
From 2:00 to around 3:40, the band plays a repeating montuno groove: the bass performs a tumbao pattern, while the band stays in the traditional “marcha”.
Around 3:40 and onward, Stewart introduces the first gear cycle: the bass shifts from tumbao to a syncopated pattern. The band follows along – this adds energy and variation: classic timba.
Live
Lyrics
https://www.timba.com/artist_pages/letra-mi-musica