1 This later spreads to other colonies. 2  March 22 - The Stamp Act passes parliament. 3  It is the first direct tax on the colonies. 4  The purpose of the tax is to help pay for the British military stationed in America. 5  This act is met with greater resistance and the cry against taxation without representation increases.
In American pop music the clave pattern tends to be used as an element of rhythmic color, rather than a guide-pattern and as such is superimposed over many types of rhythms. In Brazilian music Afro-Brazilian bell patterns.
The most common clave pattern used in Cuban popular music is called the son clave, named after the Cuban musical genre of the same name. Clave is the basic period, composed of two rhythmically opposed cells, one antecedent and the other consequent. Clave was initially written in two measures of 2 4 in Cuban music.