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[Note: Audio files do not come with any of the Beyond Salsa books - they're a separate downloadable product.] Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 1, with a "beginning" difficulty level, covers the earliest antecedents of the piano tumbao and provide exercises for beginning pianists to develop the technique necessary to play salsa and timba piano tumbaos. It begins with piano adaptations of tres guajeos from the seminal folkloric genre of changüí, which predates the first Cuban recordings, and then proceeds to the danzón and son genres of the 1900-1940 period to look for early roots of the modern piano tumbao in the tres and violin parts. The volume concludes with an extensive study of the various types of tumbaos pioneered by Arsenio Rodríguez in the 1940s. Other volumes can be found at https: //www.createspace.com/3419799
Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. After the 5 introductory volumes, Volume 7 is the second of a series of books on specific Cuban pianists, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Iván "Melón" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manolín, el Médico de la Salsa.
Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 1, with a "beginning" difficulty level, covers the earliest antecedents of the piano tumbao and provide exercises for beginning pianists to develop the technique necessary to play salsa and timba piano tumbaos. It begins with piano adaptations of tres guajeos from the seminal folkloric genre of changüí, which predates the first Cuban recordings, and then proceeds to the danzón and son genres of the 1900-1940 period to look for early roots of the modern piano tumbao in the tres and violin parts. The volume concludes with an extensive study of the various types of tumbaos pioneered by Arsenio Rodríguez in the 1940s. A directory of other volumes can be found at http: //www.timba.com/piano
At 130 pages, the fourth and final volume on the legendary Iván "Melón" Lewis is also the longest and most extensive, continuing the survey of his tumbaos and also including three full transcriptions and in-depth analyses of his playing style on introductions, cuerpos, fixed montuno sections, mambos and other parts of the arrangement. It also uses Issac Delgado's never-released live masterpiece La temática to launch our most in-depth study of the art of "controlled improvisation".
Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 4, with an intermediate difficulty level, covers groups such as Orquesta Revé, Adalberto Álvarez, Son 14, Original de Manzanillo, Los Maravillas de Florida (starting point for Manolito y su Trabuco), and others.
Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 3, with an intermediate difficulty level, covers the explosive musical developments in Cuba after the 1959 revolution, including Los Van Van, Irakere, Ritmo Oriental, mozambique, songo and cha-onda.
Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. After the 5 introductory volumes, Volume 6 is the first to cover a specific pianist, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Iván "Melón" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manolín, el Médico de la Salsa.
Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 5 is a complete introduction and guide to timba, the innovative genre that exploded onto the Cuban scene in the 1990s. Included are a full history, discography, analysis of rhythm section gears and harmonies, and a series of tumbao exercises to develop each of the innovations of the timba pianists.
(This page sells the book only - the supplemental audio files are a separate downloadable purchase. The book also contains a link to a free download of an assortment of audio files from each chapter.)THE BOOK: Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 12 is the third volume on César "Pupy" Pedroso, and covers his last decade as the pianist and one of the principal songwriters of the Cuban supergroup Los Van Van. The book contains music notation and analysis of Pedroso's piano tumbaos as well as historical and discographical information about Los Van Van and its many famous members, including Juan Formell, Samuel Formell, Mayito Rivera, Angel Bonne, Robertón Hernández, Pedrito Calvo, Boris Luna and José Luis "Changuito" Quintana. During the period under study (1989-2001), Los Van Van released seven albums generally considered to be among the best Cuban popular music recordings of all time: Crónicas (1989), Aquí el que baila gana (1990), Azúcar (1992), Lo último en vivo (1994), Ay Dios ampárame (1996), Te pone la cabeza mala (1997) and the Grammy-winning Llegó Van Van (19990.Volumes 10 and 11 of the Beyond Salsa Piano series cover Pupy Pedroso's earlier work with Los Van Van and Volume 13 will cover his work as the leader of Pupy y Los Que Son Son from 2001 to the present). Los Que Son Son is currently one of the most popular bands in Cuba. Volumes 1-5 are a beginning-intermediate-advanced course in Latin piano playing in general; Volumes 6-9 are an in-depth study of piano giant Iván "Melón" Lewis and his work with the pivotally important Issac Delgado Group. Volume 14 covers the piano style of Tirso Duarte with Charanga Habanera. Interestingly, Duarte was also a lead singer with Pupy y Los Que Son Son. The Beyond Salsa series also includes 5 books on bass, 3 on drums and timbales, a course for Latin ensemble, Understanding Clave and Clave Changes, and a special book, Beyond Salsa for Beginners, that teaches basic rhythms and history for dancers and other interested non-musicians.
(this page sells the book only - audio files are a separate downloadable purchase - the book also contains a link to a smaller free download of audio files)Beyond Salsa Bass is the companion series to Beyond Salsa Piano, launched in 2009 and now spanning 12 volumes. As of 2013, three bass volumes have been released: Volumes 6 and 7 on Alain Pérez, and this book, Volume 1: For Beginners. Included are bass tumbaos for each of the piano tumbaos (aka, montunos) in Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 1, but the bass volume is more than twice as long and contains many additional bass tumbaos and other exercises. The book begins by categorizing the 16 most common Latin bass tumbaos by their rhythms and then proceeds to tell the history of Latin music from a bassist's perspective, with notation for bass tumbaos from each era covered: changüí, rumba, son, danzón, big band and son montuno (a very detailed study of Arsenio Rodríguez). Audio files are not included with the book. Available online are both a smaller free audio download and an extensive paid audio download.