TuCuatro releases a multi-instrument feature. Today we’re releasing a new tool to help you learn these songs that you love, using your favorite musical instrument. Now for each song at TuCuatro you will be able to select and change the instrument and see, in real-time, the song’s chords for that specific musical instrument. Learning chords …
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The Brazilian Cavaquinho sometimes gets confused with sort of a classical guitar or with the Portuguese Cavaquinho, but this could not be far from the truth. This string instrument from Brazil is of considerable importance for the brazilian folk culture and folk music and it has been imported to many countries thanks to the emmigration …
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Do you play Cavaquinho? Learn the lyrics and chords of your favorite Brazilian songs and play genres like Samba, Bossa with your Cavaquinho. Do you want to learn how to play? TuCuatro can teach you how to play the instrument you love. Visit our Courses page to get an idea of how to enroll in …
If you know the lyrics and chords for a song you can upload it by using our upload song tool at our website. This upload tool is available for anybody with a free account. This is a very useful resource that our TuCuatro musicians and teachers have been using to create material for our students. …
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For all the Balalaika music lovers! Today we invite you to listen to this beautiful instrumental Balalaika composition called “Cassiopeia”, by the musician Anna Zayats. Enjoy this beautiful musical piece by Anna Zayats called “Cassiopeia”, played with a Balalaika, an instrument from Russia, that we also like here at TuCuatro. Our team has put together …
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Something to think of…
Er Blues, a Blues with Cuatro.
Carlos Capacho is one of the cuatro players discovered by the contest “Siembra del Cuatro”
Jorge Glem has released his new CD, named “En el Cerrito”. This new project is the third one for this famous venezuelan cuatro soloist. The CD is full of traditional music mixed with jazz and different tendencies of World Music. Jorge Glem is one of the best cuatro soloist of the moment. He’s one of …
This is an example of the kind of music you can play with the venezuelan cuatro. The woody woodpecker is a cartoon created in 1940 that is still alive
Leonardo Lozano is one of the most amazing Venezuelan Cuatro players. He studied arts and music in Caracas, Venezuela and then started his career as a Cuatro Professional, playing in and out the country. He’s so passionate about the instrument that he created the first academic course for learning instrumental Cuatro, and he’s one of the first people in the …
Edward Ramirez, Cuatro Player.
Listen to an impressive improvisation by Jorge Glem.
Robert Munro is a cuatro solosit from Trinidad & Tobago that has performed throughout South America, Mexico and the Caribe. He has develop his own Cuatro technique trough time and has made the parang, or “parranda”, a popular folk music from the island, get to the stages with his unique style.
Here we bring to you another friday song you’ll enjoy. A mix of typical venezuelan music with nice and clean rock sounds. We like this particular one because is an original composition by Abrahan Sarache, venezuelan composer from Caracas.
Jazz fusion played with an electric Cuatro.
Spectacular solo made by a musician from South America.
Norwegian Wood is a song by The Beatles that dates from about 1965. Norwegian Wood was written by Jhon Lennon and Paul McCartney. It was originally played with Sitar and has been versioned into different rhythms and genres since then. We’ll drop two videos for you to enjoy. The original one with Sitar, and a second one …
There’s an easy way to tune your cuatro. You’ll learn it here, by noticing where to put your fingers on the frets and how to get the right sound of each string. First, you will get by reference the sound of the A string. Here’s a video with a 440Hz as reference: After you have …
Watch Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Orchestra and accompanied by the well-know violinist Alexis Cardenas and the amazing cuatro soloist Jorge Glem.
Yesterday Cuatro Cover by Marcel Montcourt.
Roberto Betancourt playing a cuatro cover.
Prepare your ears and eyes… You`re about to see the best cuatro performers, the stars of the cuatro, the cuatro players that has become the point of refer
Listen to a Cuatro Cover of one of the most popular songs made by the Beatles.
