The guitar patterns in Bossa Nova, for instance, originally more or less imitate Samba percussive patterns, in a “jazzy” way. My older brothers could play a bit rhythmically too, and my bass playing brother loved Reggae too (as well as jazz and funk), and of course I could appreciate on occasion too nice guitar solos (in any genre), the rhythmical playing in Flamenco, and in Brazilian and Cuban music. Guitars and rhythm can of course combine. It is however not as simple – or clear-cut - as that. Therefore, I gravitated soon toward percussion and drumming, which I eventually took up. Moreover, I am musically broadly interested, but tended to favour music with strong, groovy rhythms: Funk, Reggae, African music. The keys/piano focus might have related to my early interest in Stevie Wonder. Of course I tried guitars too – in my ten years -, but I found the pressing of fingertips against strings somewhat uncomfortable and hard to get used to, and for that reason, I first took up playing keyboard.īesides this practical reason, it also relates to musical preference. Over time I tried percussion instruments, drums, rattles, Spanish castanets, or harmonicas, that we had at our home, while my brothers eventually took up guitars: one of them bass guitar, the other one mainly Spanish guitars. Since young kind of musically inclined, like my older brothers, that interest was continuously fed. I always found the global variety in musical instruments interesting.
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