Sentence examples similar to continuing the clave from inspiring English sources

So that's how you can tell a really good Cuban band — when they all stay on the clave".

Maintaining the clave rhythm is his job, more or less.

The clave beat was originally kept by a pair of wooden sticks called claves.

"They just didn't understand the importance of the clave.

In Spanish, clave means "code," or "key," and it is the clave beat that underlies much Afro-Cuban music.

There are also many different ways and places to put accents on the clave, different time signatures and different ways to configure a clave-based band.

First, piano and taps traded four-bar improvisations in the clave rhythm.

"It takes years just to stop being terrorized by the clave," he added.

"The strings are too syrupy, the trumpets are too loud and the clave is not even there.

A decade later, the Cuban conguero Chano Pozo broadened the fame of the clave, when he collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie.

He really emphasized the clave, and from his band came all these other conjuntos, all of which were really great".