Hear Don Yomo demonstrating other Puerto Rican Seis con Décimas:
during a 1994 interview with Juan Sotomayor

"The Seis Fajardeño. That's a décima also"
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"These are [Seis con] Décimas of Mapeyé style, which are:
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"These are [Seis con] Décimas also but in Enramada Típica, [Typical branching] style which is another form of Mapeyé:"
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"Then the [Enramada Típica] sung part goes like this:"
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"Then there are two forms of the Seis Milonga: one that I recorded with Ramito, with my introduction which was:
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"The singer [of the Seis Milonga] sung like this...this was the one that I used to play with Ramito."
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"Then there was another I used to do with Ramito that sounds like this. This is another Seis Milonga in minor key. What happens is that the other one was in a major key. Otherwise its the same."
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"Then they have another seis which is like Argentinian, another Milonguero that does this:"
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"It's sung part is this...and so the troubadour sings. The body of the piece is...the coda...and this is how it ends."
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Hear Don Yomo talk about (and demonstrate) the Seis con Décima

(Text in English below))

"There are décimas in aguinaldo style and in seis style. Seis con décima: you know, they are played as a seis   When you say seis con decima you mean this: [he plays a sample and imitates the troubador's singing part]. That was a generic, a nameless seis con decima. Okay? But they are played to accompany the singing of a décima, Seis con Decima, that's why it's called a "Seis con Decima", meaning the genre you're playing--plus the décima. That seis con decima is used a lot for improvising, when the troubadors improvise the décima, that is what they use."

"But what happens often is that groups today tend to start off the décima, they start like this [plays the seis slowly] and towards the end they play [he play the seis rapidly]. They accelerate the tempo. But the decimas, the seis con decimas, in order to improvise on them, they have to be at a certain speed that gives the improvisador time to think, time to improvise. But these little groups start at ten miles and hour and finish up like ninety miles per hour! That's what they usually do. But not me. When I'm playing with the...well Ramito told me, "don't rush the music, because if you rush it, I can't improvise."

The Seis Chorreao
[the "rushing" seis]

HOW ARE THE SEIS CHORREAOS PLAYED IN A MINOR KEY?
"The seis chorreaos?"
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I'VESEEN HOW THEY START IN MINOR KEY, DO A LITTLE SOMETHING IN BETWEEN AND THEN JUMP TO A MAJOR KEY...
"Then there are others who will vary the theme [for the sung portion] when a woman and a man are singing, they do... and then afterwards they do..."

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