Kevin Moore

The tenth volume in the Beyond Salsa Piano series focuses on C sar "Pupy" Pedroso, the founding pianist and one of the principal composers of Cuba's most popular band, Los Van Van, and now the leader of Los Que Son Son, the most successful new Cuban group of the 2000s. Pedroso was ranked #1 in the timba.com readers' poll for "Best Timba Pianist of All-Time" and came in second in the songwriting department. Doubling as a history and music appreciation course, the book contains extensive music notation examples of Pedroso's piano tumbaos, or "montunos", as well as transcriptions of solo and head arrangements. The difficulty level is intermediate, falling between the very easy exercises in the early volumes, and the sometimes complex tumbaos of Volumes 6-9, which deal with Mel n Lewis of The Issac Delgado Group. Illustrated in detail is Pupy Pedroso's trademark "contrary motion" montuno style, which, while very easy to execute produce much richer sounding harmonies than the standard salsa approach. The book also includes "sidebar" sections on the importance of rumba in salsa, rhythm section "gears", controlled improvisation and the evolution of bass tumbaos in Cuban music. Bass tumbaos are included for each of the 54 piano transcriptions and some also include string section guajeos and second keyboard parts. Volume 10 also includes a detailed biography with rare photos from Pupy's private collection and information about his extensive musical family. The discgraphy section lists Pupy's work in two ways: by album, and by song, as many of his compositions were recorded by various artists. There are dozens of excellent photographs by Tom Ehrlich, David Garten, Patrick Bonnard and others top photographic artists. The author, Kevin Moore, has also written "The Tom s Cruz Conga Method" and "Beyond Salsa Percussion", is working on "Beyond Salsa Bass" and is the music editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, timba.com. 11 other volumes are currently available.

Calixto Oviedo is the first featured artist in "Beyond Salsa Percussion", the companion series to author Kevin Moore's acclaimed "Beyond Salsa Piano" series. Oviedo, who played with such groups as NG La Banda and Adalberto lvarez y su Son, is a living legend among Cuban drummers. This, the second volume of the series, "Calixto Oviedo - Drums and Timbales: Basic Rhythms", covers the wide range of traditional rhythmic styles that Oviedo mastered before embarking on the dramatic innovations for which he later became famous. He plays each rhythm in its traditional form and then shows how it can be adapted to drumset in a variety of modern situations. At 144 pages, with dozens of carefully transcribed musical examples, the goal of "Calixto Oviedo - Drums and Timbales: Basic Rhythms" goal is to help experienced Latin drummers find new ways of approaching traditional Cuban styles, to help American and European drummers master Latin drumming in general, to prepare for the dramatic innovations covered in the following volume of the series: "Calixto Oviedo - Drums and Timbales: Timba Gears", and to explain the intricacies of Cuban music to arrangers, listeners and dancers.

Calixto Oviedo is the first featured artist in "Beyond Salsa Percussion", the companion series to author Kevin Moore's acclaimed "Beyond Salsa Piano" series. Oviedo, who played with such groups as NG La Banda and Adalberto lvarez y su Son, is a living legend among Cuban drummers. This, the third volume of the series, "Calixto Oviedo: Timba Gears", dissects Oviedo's style using the "gear" approach introduced by Moore in 2004 in "The Tom s Cruz Conga Method". At 176 pages, with dozens of carefully transcribed musical examples, the goal of "Calixto Oviedo: Timba Gears" goal is to help experienced Latin drummers master the new Cuban styles, to help American and European drummers master Latin drumming in general, and to explain the intricacies of Cuban music to arrangers, listeners and dancers.

At 130 pages, the fourth and final volume on the legendary Iv n "Mel n" 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 tem tica 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 "Tom s 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.

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tom s 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. Iv n "Mel n" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manol n, el M dico de la Salsa.

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tom s 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 8 is the third of a series of books on specific Cuban pianists, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Iv n "Mel n" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manol n, el M dico de la Salsa.

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tom s 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. Iv n "Mel n" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manol n, el M dico de la Salsa.

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tom s 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 Rev , Adalberto lvarez, 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 "Tom s 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 chang , which predates the first Cuban recordings, and then proceeds to the danz n 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 Rodr guez in the 1940s. A directory of other volumes can be found at http: //www.timba.com/piano

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 "Tom s 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 chang , which predates the first Cuban recordings, and then proceeds to the danz n 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 Rodr guez in the 1940s. Other volumes can be found at https: //www.createspace.com/3419799

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