Beyond Salsa for Beginners: An Introduction to Latin Music for Dancers and Listeners is the flagship volume for the comprehensive Beyond Salsa series that includes multi-volume sets of books on each instruments of the Cuban rhythm section: piano, bass, drums, timbales, bongó, congas, clave, ensemble, etc. There is an introductory free download of 107 audio files with sample pdf available here. 248 pages (248 páginas) with 184 audio tracks (184 pistas).

** SPECIAL OFFER: If you buy both the Beyond Salsa For Beginners AND the Beyond Salsa Percussion Volume 1 eBooks, then the author (Kevin Moore timbacontent [at] gmail [dot] com) will send you all of the audio for both books for free.

Format: Beyond Salsa For Beginners is an introductory volume for the comprehensive Beyond Salsa series of music method books. Each volume is made up of an eBook with accompanying audio (and video if available) tracks. The eBook and audio tracks are sold separately.

eBook: The eBook is a personalized pdf download compatible with Adobe Acrobat (more eBook info here). 248 pages.

Special notes about Beyond Salsa For Beginners

** BSFB is one of the longest volumes of the series (definitely the longest interns of text versus notation).

** No need to buy this AUDIO ALBUM if you already purchased the audio album for Beyond Salsa Percussion Volume 1!

Audio: All the audio has been organized into 184 audio tracks. Purchase the audio album on this page.

*** Important note about the Free Audio portion: The FREE audio portion of this volume (tracks 1-1a through 3-10d) can be downloaded here. ***

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The Beyond Salsa For Beginners method alternates between two different types of chapters:Listening Tours and Clapping, Singing and Dancing Exercises.

The Listening Tours cover the full history of Cuban music: Afro-Cuban folkloric music, rumba, changüí, comparsa, son, danzón, son montuno, songo, timba, salsa et al. For each genre we have a "highlighted track" - analyzed with time stamps to point out the main features. After a short history of the genre and its place in the overall scheme of things, we have a Further Listening list. The idea is to make a playlist of the highlighted tracks and listen repeatedly to develop an emotional connection with the music before studying the chapter.

Interspersed among the Listening Tours are four Rhythmic Exercises chapters on clapping, counting and singing the basic rhythms on which all of this music is based: clave, the basic dance steps, cinquillo, tresillo, and all the other essential rhythms of Latin music.

Click here for a FREE pdf sample of the Beyond Salsa For Beginners eBook.

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