// chacha Begin Doc The Cha-Cha-Cha remains a popular rhythm with broad audience appeal, despite the fact that it is somewhat dated and made trite by Americanized versions. I've used "Rico Vacilon" as a demo. This file was mostly developed from the patterns in "Latin Rhythms: Mystery Unraveled" by Victor Lopez. End Author Bob van der Poel NewSet ArpeggioOctave 7 NewSet ArpeggioVoice Flute NewSet ScaleVoice Flute Begin DocVar ArpeggioOctave The Octave setting for the flute arpeggios (default=7) ArpeggioVoice Voice for the ChaCha1 Arpeggios (default=Flute) ScaleVoice Voice for the accending scale in ChaCha1Fill (default=Flute) End SeqClear Time 4 Timesig 4 4 Include stdpats Seqsize 2 Begin Drum-Clave Tone Claves Volume f Sequence Clave2 Clave3 Rvolume 10 Rtime 5 End Begin Drum-LGuiro Tone LongGuiro Volume f Sequence {D13; D13 Shift .2} Rvolume 10 Rtime 5 End Begin Drum-SGuiro Tone ShortGuiro Volume f Sequence {D24; D24 Shift .5} Rvolume 10 Rtime 5 End Begin Drum-HConga Tone MuteHighConga Volume m Rvolume 10 Rtime 2 Sequence {D1; D13 Shift .5} {D1; D1234 Shift .5} End Begin Drum-LConga Tone LowConga Volume m Rvolume 10 Rtime 2 Sequence {D234; D24 Shift .5} D234 End Begin Drum-Snare Tone SnareDrum1 Volume m Rvolume 10 Rtime 2 Sequence D13 End Begin Drum-HH Tone RideCymbal1 Volume p Rvolume 10 Rtime 2 Accent 1 70 2 60 3 70 4 60 Sequence D8 End Begin Drum-MTom Tone MidTom2 Volume f Rvolume 10 Rtime 2 Sequence D4 End Begin Drum-HTom Tone HighTom2 Volume f Rvolume 10 Rtime 2 Sequence {D4 Shift .5} End Begin Bass Voice JazzGuitar Volume f Octave 3 Articulate 100 Unify On Sequence {1 4 1- 90; 2.5 16 5 90; 3 8 3 90; 4 4 1 90} \ {1 4 1 90; 2.5 16 5 90; 3 8 5 90; 4 4 1- 90} End Begin Chord Voice Piano1 Volume mf Articulate 66 Voicing Mode=Optimal Octave 5 Rskip 10 Rvolume 10 Sequence {C12; C34 Shift .5} {C23 Shift .5} End DefGroove ChaCha Our basic, non-American, pattern. ////// Add in flute arps. Groove ChaCha Begin Arpeggio Voice $ArpeggioVoice Volume m Articulate 80 SeqRnd On Octave $ArpeggioOctave Range 1 Direction Random Harmony Open HarmonyVolume 50 Rskip 10 Rvolume 30 Rtime 20 Sequence A8 A4 End DefGroove ChaCha1 Adds in flute arpeggios. ////////////////////////// ////// Sustained Groove ChaCha Alltracks Volume -20 Begin Arpeggio-Sus Voice Bandoneon Volume p Octave 6 Articulate 100 Harmony Open Range 1 Direction Random Sequence A2 End DefGroove ChaChaSus Adds sustained string arpeggios. Groove ChaCha1 Arpeggio-Sus Groove ChaChaSus DefGroove ChaCha1Sus Combines the flute and string arpeggios. /////////////////////////// //// Fills Groove ChaCha Seqsize 1 Drum-Clave Sequence D1234 //Drum-LGuiro //Drum-SGuiro Drum-HConga Sequence { D1234 Shift .5 } Drum-LConga Sequence { D1234 Shift .75 } //Drum-Snare //Drum-HH //Drum-MTom //Drum-HTom Bass Sequence {1 2. 1 120; 3 4 5 120} Chord Sequence C13 DefGroove ChaChaFill A one bar fill. Groove ChaChaFill Begin Scale Voice $ScaleVoice Octave 6 Volume mf Sequence { 1 1 90 * 24 } Articulate 102 Range 2 ScaleType Chromatic Direction Up End DefGroove ChaCha1Fill Fill with accending flute run. Makes a good section introduction. //////////////////////////// ////// Introduction Groove ChaCha SeqSize 4 Drum-Clave Sequence * * * D14 Drum-LGuiro Sequence * * * D1 Drum-SGuiro Sequence * * * {D12 Shift .5} Drum-HConga Sequence D13 Drum-LConga Sequence D24 Drum-Snare Sequence D1 Drum-HH Sequence * * D16 D123 //Drum-MTom Sequence D4 //Drum-HTom Sequence {D4 Shift .5} Bass Sequence * * * B11 Chord Sequence * * C1234 L1 DefGroove ChaChaIntro A plain 4 bar introduction. Groove ChaCha SeqSize 8 Drum-Clave Sequence * * * * * * * D14 Drum-LGuiro Sequence * * * * * * * D1 Drum-SGuiro Sequence * * * * * * * {D12 Shift .5} Drum-HConga Sequence D13 Drum-LConga Sequence D24 Drum-Snare Sequence D1 Drum-HH Sequence * * * * * * D16 D123 //Drum-MTom Sequence D4 //Drum-HTom Sequence {D4 Shift .5} Bass Sequence * * * * * * * B11 Chord Sequence * * * * * * C1234 L1 DefGroove ChaChaIntro8 Same intro expanded to 8 bars. ///////////////////////// ///// Ending Groove ChaCha Drum-Clave Sequence D1234 D13 Drum-LGuiro Sequence * z Drum-SGuiro Sequence * {D2; D2 Shift .5} //Drum-HConga Sequence D13 Drum-LConga Sequence D2 Drum-Snare Sequence D8 D1 Drum-HH Sequence D16 z Drum-MTom Sequence * z Drum-HTom Sequence * z Bass Sequence * B11 Chord Sequence * L1 DefGroove ChaChaEnd The End.