Sabanera music is a musical conglomerate of various sub-styles and rhythms, native to the savanna region of Colombia, comprising the departments of Bolívar, Sucre and Córdoba. It has Spanish influence, by the strophic organization and the metric; German, for the diatonic accordion brought to La Guajira, at the end of the 19th century; Afro-Colombian, by the use of certain membranophones that support the rhythm to the melodies, indigenous (by the guacharaca, idiofono of raspado); and mestiza, for the bagpipes, wind instruments.
Saber jugglers have to show more than 30 rhythms that are played with accordion, bagpipes, guitars, marines, and wind bands, among other groups. The most popular airs are porro and cumbia, as well as fandango, chandé, pajarito, paseaíto, pasebol, and river music, like the chalupa and tambora, which has no melody of instruments but yes of voices.
The walk, the merengue, the puya and the son are also executed in the savannah, but in a very different way from the vallenata.
Sabanera music is much more rhythmic, melodious and with a lot of tendency towards the minor tones, while the vallenata is more pricked and with a higher tone prevalence.
Exponents Corraleros del Majagual, Andrés Landero, Aniceto Molina, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Adolfo Pacheco, Lisandro Meza, "Chane" Meza, Andrés Landero Jr.
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