When Cuba Became Home: Living Through the Pandemic in Havana

I moved to Havana in 2019, married my wife, and lived through the first months of COVID in Cuba. This is how the country treated me when life got hard.

I moved to Havana in 2019, married my wife, and lived through the first months of COVID in Cuba. This is how the country treated me when life got hard.

How years of studying and listening to Cuban percussion changed the way I hear clave, syncopation, triplets, rhythmic layering and the drum set.

What I learned about charts, click tracks, SPD-SX cues, recovery and endurance while playing more than 500 Ringling Bros. arena shows.

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