Good for you, Bhairitu! Playing latin music is fairly complicated. You have to get used to playing the clave beat in your head and then play the tune as you go. American music does not have this feature at all.
Believe it or not, Henry Mancini used some latin beats in his orchestration many years ago. ---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote : I used to play in a salsa band. The conga player was half Cuban. The basic beat this guy starts out with is nothing different from a standard mambo beat and he is adding some more drums. Mambos or Montunas are basically what "salsa" is. And salsa bands are a lot of fun to play in. I recently wrote a salsa piece as a title piece for some software. On 12/17/2014 12:22 PM, curtisdeltablues@... mailto:curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I am crazy for this beat, we are on the same page! I've been using some instructional materials to learn how these beats relate to clave patterns from African and Afro Cuba. I learned about this from this book and then Youtubed the hell of it. What a great time to be alive for musical access isn't it? What got you into this beat? Can you help me understand how this is different from a salsa beat? Awesome stuff. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <jr_esq@...> mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : Listen to this new beat called timba from Cuba. I been trying to play this on my congas with some success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-dGeaLnLmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-dGeaLnLmg ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <curtisdeltablues@...> mailto:curtisdeltablues@... wrote : I have followed this with great interest since I am reading a wonderful book on Cuba's contribution to music: Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo [Ned Sublette] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This entertaining histo... View on www.amazon.com Preview by Yahoo I have been blown away by how much I DIDN'T know about how influential their music culture was to modern music. The clave were the hard wood spikes they put wooden boats together with in the shipyards of Havana! I think you would dig this book, it is an amazing historical look through the eyes of a musician. He also wrote a cool book on New Orleans music history. ---In [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : It's taken 50 years for the US to pull the friggn' thorn out of it's side and renew diplomatic relations with Cuba. Of course all the right wing dummies will screed that the Obama administration is being "commie" for doing so. http://news.yahoo.com/after-alan-gross-release--obama-seeks-to-resume-full-diplomatic-ties-with-cuba-152343480.html http://news.yahoo.com/after-alan-gross-release--obama-seeks-to-resume-full-diplomatic-ties-with-cuba-152343480.html
