“No Hago Más Ná” translates to “I Do Nothing.” In Puerto Rico, this is a well-known song by El Gran Combo, the most famous Salsa band in the world. It conveys the Latin American culture of living life lazily, not working and just eating.
Puerto Rico’s largest bank, Banco Popular, wanted to challenge this laid-back approach to life, so they convinced El Gran Combo to change the lyrics into a message of productivity. The new lyrics encourage people to “move forwards, never backwards.” This was a marketing technique used by Banco Popular, which resolves tension between a competing human urge and cultural tradition.
The song is well suited for electric guitar, seeing as the piano part is mostly right-hand orientated. On piano, the same notes are mostly doubled with the left hand. I started to learn this today, paying close attention to the chords associated with each melody line.
