Song Help Request Venezuelan tunes?

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Are there any tabs for Venezuelan tunes for uke out there? or anywhere else in South America?
 
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Are you looking for Venezuelan folk tunes or something else. There are very many genres of music in South America.
 
Joropo is a truly Venezuelan style of music. It is in 3/4 time and there is a corisponding dance step.

The most widely known joropo tune is "Alma Llenara" which is sort of the unofficial national anthem of Venezuela. Here is a link to a PDF with the melody and chords. You can find the lyrics pretty easily on the Internet.

http://www.flutetunes.com/tunes/alma-llanera.pdf
 
Printed out the PDF...thank you so much for this. (I knock around with flute as well so this is a useful site for me!)Helping a cuatro player to learn how to read tab & music as well as getting to know the fingerboard. I'm working with him with my uke in D tuning. Other South American tunes appreciated as well. Thanking everybody for answering to this thread!
 
The music of northern South America is very different from the rest of the continent. You may want to have a go at some Cumbia, which is a genre originally from the Caribbean Coast - mostly from Colombia and Panama, but also Venezuela. "La Gota Friar" is a Colombian tune, but everybody in the Spanish speaking parts of the continent knows this one. (Technically it is a Vallenato song, but for anyone outside of Colombia, it's plain old Cumbia.)

Here is a jpeg of a lead sheet:

http://ekladata.com/wHNLDM9LwJciIv1wx4AhjqjRcdQ/001.jpg

The song is from the '30s, but it was a hit for Carlos Vices back in the 1990's.



Edit: I thought that I should add the fact that "La Gota Friar" (Cold Sweat) is about an ACCORDION FIGHT. How can you top that?
 
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man this is great! I am expecting a CD of Venezuelan folk tunes on guitar,and have found some resources. I'm also restringing my baritone uke with cuatro strings as suggested in another thread. :)
 
Congrats! I have a CD of electrified Venezuelan cuatro music I need to dig out and play now that I've cuatro-fied one of my 'ukes. I have the cuatro strings and I'll eventually get a real cuatro (US$250 shipped from Caracas) or a better baritone 'uke for them. (My current bari is too quiet.)

But, inspired by another thread, I took a cheap option today. I replaced my 6-string tenor's high-G with a low-G. Its top course already has a low-A so now it's strung G-cC-E-Aa which is dang close enough to a cuatro's G-c-e-A. This gives a much deeper and richer tone while retaining the 'uke sound. Now I need to study some materials on playing with that 500-year-old cuatro tuning. Fun fun fun!
 
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"La Gota Friar" is a Colombian tune, but everybody in the Spanish speaking parts of the continent knows this one. (Technically it is a Vallenato song, but for anyone outside of Colombia, it's plain old Cumbia.)

The song is from the '30s, but it was a hit for Carlos Vices back in the 1990's.

Edit: I thought that I should add the fact that "La Gota Friar" (Cold Sweat) is about an ACCORDION FIGHT. How can you top that?

Hey Wicked,

Thanks a lot for posting that! I was in Central America for most of the '90s and heard that song all the time - never knew what it was.
 
For South American music more generally, there's the Argentinian folk singer, guitarist and composer Atahualpa Yupanqui, who sometimes performed in native garb.

Robert Aussel playing some guitar music by Yupanqui:
I: Milonga, Vidala - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4rn0WwzGw8
II: Estilo, Gato, Zamba - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amfj_sHFsXo
III: Canción, Malambo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PyosCFXfrU

Ernesto Nazareth was a Brazilian pianist who wrote many lovely dances.
Arthur Moreira Lima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-jitiZbmuE

Amazing stuff, thanks for sharing these links. I love the resonance, such amazing control of volume.
 
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