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Video Clase Timba Bajo 1 Pikete

Artist:   El Pikete

Style Released Album Tracks Charts
Instructional 2008 6 0
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$4.99

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Audio album download includes album tracks and cover art.
All audio tracks in MP3-VBR format. About LPM album downloads.
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# Name Play Time Info
01  Hay Pero No Te Toca - Bass
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5:49 bass on left channel, band on right
02  No Pasa Nada - Bass
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5:49 bajo canal izquierdo, grupo en el derecho
03  Ya No Se - Bass
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5:45 bass on left channel, band on right
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Learn to play TIMBA-style bass with Victoriano Napoles (El Pikete, Manolin "El Medico"). Watch the video and use the balance control to ether isolate the bass (left channel) or play along with the band El Pikete (right channel)! Pay close attention to how the clave corresponds with the bass lines.

This is a MULTI-MEDIA PRODUCT DOWNLOAD that contains both VIDEO and AUDIO files. This multi-media album includes three (3) videos plus three (3) specialty audio tracks. A total of 35 minutes of media.

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After many requests to release an instructional product for TIMBA style bass, we present 'Video Class: Timba Bass with El Pikete'. With the video you can play along while honing in on the body langage and hand technique. For your convenience the audio tracks are also split with the bass on left and band on right.

*Free Bass Transcription: Special THANK YOU to Julio Acevedo (tropicanada [at] rogers.com) for donating a bass transcription for Hay Pero No Te Toca. The chart has notation for the left and right hand finger-tap technique used by Vic Napoles.

    FREE DOWNLOAD
    Finale music notation file (.mus) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
"Hay Pero No Te Toca" Bass Chart (Partitura del Bajo).
    DESCARGA GRÁTIS
 
If you are a bassist and would like to provide us with transcription of the bass parts (in finale or pdf) for these three tunes, in exchange for the video album download, please contact us as we would like to include them on this page.

Transcription Update 2008-12-10: pay close attention to the left and right hand fingertap technique Vic uses on 'No Pasa Nada'. Isolate the bass track with your balance control to listen to these very funky percussive elements that really drive the groove.


Victoriano Napoles - photo by Tom Ehrlich

ALBUM CONTENTS
'Hay Pero No Te Toca - Bass' Instructional Video = 5:53 (mm:ss)
'No Pasa Nada - Bass' Instructional Video = 5:24 (mm:ss)
'Ya No Se - Bass' Instructional Video = 5:49 (mm:ss)

'Hay Pero No Te Toca - Bass' Instructional MP3 = 5:53 (mm:ss)
'No Pasa Nada - Bass' Instructional MP3 = 5:24 (mm:ss)
'Ya No Se - Bass' Instructional MP3 = 5:49 (mm:ss)


VIDEO FORMATS
This 512 x 384 video download can be viewed with (click to install):

VLC media player for Windows
VLC media player for Mac OS X
DivX Player for Windows
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Windows Media Player for Windows
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Special Acknowledgement:
Latin Pulse Music wants to thank Kevin Moore for his outstanding achievements in the field of Caribbean musicology. Around the world there are many who caught the timba "bug" because of him. The Oru Seco transcription we are offering exists only because of his relentless drive to understand what constitutes truly great music.

Kevin Moore is the music editor of www.timba.com and the musical director of the American salsa band Orquesta Gitano. He has studied with dozens of leading Cuban musicians, written many extensive articles on Cuban music, and served as a consultant for features and articles produced by the BBC, the Los Angeles Times, and musicologists from Harvard and other major universities.