Level 1: Salsa 2:3
Discover the sounds of Latin American musical instruments.
Understand essential musical concepts in salsa.
Visualize and grasp the sounds through graphical representation.
Explore the instrumental composition of a salsa orchestra.
Learn the rhythms of the rhythm section in MARCHA 2:3.
Master the rhythms of the rhythm section in MONTUNO 2:3.
Immerse yourself in the rich world of salsa music with our comprehensive Salsa Music Theory course. Unleash your musical potential today!
LESSON 1:
We will focus on one of the factors that mostly create difficulties in learning salsa music: the lack of knowledge of musical instruments of Latin American tradition and their sounds.
Audio/video examples are included, with musicians playing some musical instruments.
LESSON 2:
We will define some musical concepts such as musical phrase, pattern, beat, measure, clave, etc. that will allow you to start with a basic order in your learning,
By learning these definitions correctly, you will better, and more easily, understand how salsa music is structured.
LESSON 3:
I propose a system of graphical representation of the sounds we hear in music, in this way you will have a graphic support that will allow you to easily visualize and understand what each instrument plays, like as a musical score, though less challenging, much easier in understanding.
LESSON 4:
We will learn the instrumental composition of a salsa orchestra. We divide these instruments into groups, called SECTIONS.
To make it easier for you to study, for each section of a salsa orchestra, I have recorded audio and video examples of the musicians as they play their instrument.
LESSON 5:
FINALLY we will get to the heart of this course: here I will teach you what each single instrument plays in the rhythm section, in MARCHA section two three.
I have recorded each instrument separately for you, so you can hear and see how each instrument sounds in reference to the tempo in the MARCHA 2:3 SECTION of a salsa song.
LESSON 6:
We will see what each instrument in the rhythm section plays in MONTUNO two three.
Again, I have recorded each instrument separately for you, so you can hear and see how each instrument sounds in reference to the tempo in the MONTUNO 2:3 SECTION of a salsa song.
Master in Jazz (double bass), graduated at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Como, Italy, bassist with decades of experience (baby bass and electric bass), composer, arranger. He was director of the salsa orchestra, in Italy, “Sincopa Latina” and is now leader of his own latin-jazz project “Yuntas”.
