Hive Music Festival | Week 97 round 1 | "Arenas" by Francisco Cortesía

▶️ Watch on 3Speak

We come back after having gotten a new star for the thumbnail. But there's no time to rest or stop learning. To kick off things in this new cycle of performances, I'm glad to start with another Joropo. This one is from the cousin of my grandfather, Francisco Cortesía. This cousin has some interesting compositions. I played one of my favorites song by him a few entries ago and now have the chance of performing another one.

The title of this Joropo is Arenas. You could look for the translation and learn it how to say sands in Spanish. It is a reference to a town on a neighboring Municipality that has the name Arenas. Maybe it was a place where people could gather sand from the banks of the rivers that cross around that place. But that's just speculation.

I love the themes on this piece. The second part is just amazing with those jumps between chords and feels amazing to play. And of course, we cannot play one of these joropos and not add the improvisation at the end. I wanted to play both Golpe de Arpa and then go to the Estribillo, but that would've been too long tiresome. So, I went with the former. Anyways, since this is my cover, I'm allowed to do what I want to have a feeling with the piece.

I'll drop some links of the versions of this Joropo since they are quite good.

Hopefully, you'll mind my cover interesting!

• Photos and Video 📹 📷: taken by me (Redmi Note 13)

• Thumbnail 🖼️: by me, created with Canva.

• Editing 🎬: by me, made with Adobe Auditio CS6, Filmora X.

Follow me on Instagram for enquires and commission.

If you'd like to help the workshop grow, you can make a donation here.