How to Play a Rhumba Drum Beat

Video Transcript

"PAT LOUIS: On behalf Expert Village, I'm Pat Louis in Miami, Florida. And today, I'm going to show you some basic drum rhythms. A lot of people ask for a rhumba. A rhumba is very similar to the cha-cha except that you use a lot more tom-toms in it, because the rhumba kind of has that ethereal, that earthy kind of sound to it. So the tom-tom helps to use that bass influence that's available in a rhumba. You don't actually have to be on the high hat at all whole times. You can use the toms in the lot of areas where you can play 2 or 3 measures on just tom-toms, and then go back to the steady beat on the high hat and you just kind of wrap it up a bit, but it always ends up back there and ending with the tom-tom."