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How To Play 'Elena' on Tres Cubano as played by Elder González Aquino | GCE Tuning | Cuban Tres

1,824 views · Published 14 October 2017 · 6:12 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: TresCubano · 2017 · Music

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Here's a quick tutorial of a tune that I'm really excited to share with everyone.  It's a song by Elder González Aquino, the incredibly talented Tres player I met in Cuba in the spring of 2014.  He gave me an album by his regular working group 'Sol De Cuba' that was recorded a few years before.   Now, one of the things I love about Elder is his beautiful, pure tone, but on this album he had a chorus effect on his Tres and I was really disappointed with it, so I put it away and forgot all about it.  Recently I discovered it in the bottom of a drawer and took a listen, and lo and behold, one lone track didn't have any of that awful chorus effect and the tune was absolutely gorgeous.  The song is called Elena.  I don't know if it's an original song written by Elder or if it's a cover, I can't find anything online about it.  I suspect it is an original, to my ear it just sounds like something he would write.  Elder and I spoke at length about our mutual love for Pancho Amat's use of + chords in his songs and the first chord in 'Elena' is an E+.  I really love this song and I hope others will to, the recording quality isn't great but fortunately the music is.

Elder usually tunes to D, but on this recording he is tuned to standard C (GCE) so for the tutorial I am as well.  In the video I'm playing my Sitka Spruce Baby Taylor Tres.  If you'd like to see how the conversion is done click here:  http://youtu.be/mv4Xx-k1Hmg

The string gauges I'm using are:
G10/24 C16/16 E11/11

If you're wondering I did included the original cover art from this recording which is nothing more than a folded piece of paper with clip-art style graphics, but I thought I should include it.

I transcribe all of the songs for my tutorials myself so I don't have the tablature for any of them.

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The song at the end of the video is the classic tune ‘El Reloj De Pastora’ played by the incredible ‘Septeto Trio Los Dos’ who have graciously given me permission to use.

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