Free piano transcriptions of José "Pepito" Montes playing on TIMBA DE PRIMERA TOMA by EL PIKETE. Get the video and use the balance control to either isolate the piano (left channel) or play along with the band El Pikete (right channel)! Pay close attention to the instances of counter motion between the left and right hands. Transcriptions courtesy of Greg Woodward from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.

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This FREE DOWNLOAD includes 3 PDF FILES -piano transcriptions for the first three songs off El Pikete's TIMBA DE PRIMERA TOMA: 1) Hay Pero No Te Toca - 2) No Pasa Nada - 3) Ya No Se. These piano transcriptions are intended to be used with our first TIMBA PIANO VIDEO from El Pikete. Get the video and use the balance control to either isolate the piano (left channel) or play along with the band El Pikete (right channel)! Video sold separately. There is no AUDIO or VIDEO included with this download -transcriptions (sheet music) only.

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After many requests to release an instructional product for TIMBA style piano, we present Video Class: Timba Piano 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 piano on left and band on right.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONS:
Greg Woodard is a recent graduate of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where he received a degree in Piano Performance with a Jazz Emphasis. He entered Lawrence as a classical percussionist, and stayed actively involved with the ethnic ensembles led by percussion professor Dane Richeson, fostering a deep love of Brazilian samba, the drumming and dancing of the Ewe people of south-eastern Ghana, where Greg studied for three weeks in the summer of 2008, and Afro-Cuban folkloric music. He co-led, as arranger, rehearsal director, and artistic director, the salsa band "Valé Todo" for two years (which will be restarting in Minneapolis in the fall of 2009), cutting his teeth on transcriptions of Ray Barretto charts, among others. Greg has also worked for the past two years as the chief research assistant for world-renowned musicologist Dominque Rene DeLerma, who specializes in the music of Black classical composers. Greg was recently turned on to www.TIMBA.com by Michael Spiro, who has been a fantastic resource and inspiration, as he has to many others. Greg is available for further transcription and copyist projects. If interested, contact him at woodardg [at] lawrence.edu.