Writing & Language
[1]The song opens with three drummers tappingtheir panderos.
[2]Two smaller hand drums—thesegundo and the requinto—weave in and out of thatbeat.[3]Each pandero adds a layer to thecomplex, syncopated rhythm I immediatelyrecognize as that of plena music. [4]A maraca andan accordion chime in and are soon joined by the ratchet-like scrape of the güiro. [5]Next, thesingers pipe up, one calling and two others responding in a playful chant. [6]As the musicbuilds to a crescendo, I detect a twist on the traditional Puerto Rican folk style: a trombonebursts in and then a clarinet.
[7]They add an element of big band jazz.
[8]Underneath thefused musical styles, though, the classic plena rhythm, propelled by the panderos, beats on.
The writer wants to add the following sentence to the paragraph.
The largest of the panderos—a hand drum called the seguidor—provides the pulse of themusic.
To make the paragraph most logical, the sentence should be placed _________
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