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Rights and takedowns

Everything published on this site is either a tune old enough to belong to everybody or a rhythm that belongs to a whole style rather than to any one recording. Right now that is 4 traditional or public-domain songs and 1604 style grooves.

The cajón parts are ours

Where a page teaches a traditional song, the percussion part on it was written for this site. It is not a transcription of anybody’s recording, and we do not claim it is what any particular percussionist played. Each page says where the tune came from at the bottom, and that line is checked before anything is published.

What we do not publish

No lyrics, no melodies in notation, no audio of anybody’s recording, and no bar-by-bar transcription of a copyrighted performance. If you came here looking for the exact part from a specific record, this is not that site.

Asking for something to be removed

If you hold rights in something you believe is published here, write to rights@rafacajon.com with the page URL and what you hold. We would rather take a page down and talk about it afterwards than argue about it first, so the page comes down on receipt.

A removed page is served 410 Gone rather than quietly redirected, which tells search engines to drop it in days rather than months. It also leaves the site, the sitemap and every internal link at the same time.

Where the data comes from

The song pages carry facts about recordings that we did not establish ourselves, and those sources are credited here permanently rather than only where they happen to appear:

  • Tempo and time signature come from GetSongBPM, except where a page says the tempo was measured here from audio.
  • Cover art, album and release details come from the Apple Music catalogue via Apple’s Search API. Artwork is served from Apple’s own servers and linked back to the track; nothing is copied onto this site.

Contributing a transcription

If you want to add a song, it needs to be one whose composition is in the public domain, or one you hold the rights to, or one you have licensed. Say which when you send it.

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