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So Kevin has finished Volume 1 of Beyond Salsa for Ensemble (see Event announcements and ads for more on that). His next venture is into Timba bass and he will begin with Alaín Pérez, which dovetails nicely with the Melón Beyond Salsa Piano series. This is really exciting because No me mires a los ojos is such a classic Issac timba piece and Melón and Alaín are great together.

So anyway here is a little sneak preview of Alaín playing along with one of the piano clips, showing how he plays and improvises around his bass tumbao and the piano harmony. I love this kind of stuff! A great example of timba piano and bass for people who are interested.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPhxU09Jrs
 
timberamayor said:
So Kevin has finished Volume 1 of Beyond Salsa for Ensemble (see Event announcements and ads for more on that). His next venture is into Timba bass and he will begin with Alaín Pérez, which dovetails nicely with the Melón Beyond Salsa Piano series. This is really exciting because No me mires a los ojos is such a classic Issac timba piece and Melón and Alaín are great together.

So anyway here is a little sneak preview of Alaín playing along with one of the piano clips, showing how he plays and improvises around his bass tumbao and the piano harmony. I love this kind of stuff! A great example of timba piano and bass for people who are interested.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPhxU09Jrs
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So cool! Thanks :D Great news.
 
This books really are encyclopedias. There's so much info in there that I think only Kevin has truly explored. Of course he's the right kind of crazy to do it. :)

The ensemble book, though, would be a great place for people to start getting into the series. Especially if they are (1) in college or (2) play in a group regularly and can mess around together with it.
 
This is awesome. And what a great bass player Alaín Pérez is. I just found out about him a few weeks ago when Curtis mentioned him in another thread.

I also checked out the Beyond Salsa for Ensemble samples timberamayor posted and yes, big difference between timba and salsa for rhythm section players, especially the bass patterns.
 
groovetpt said:
This is awesome. And what a great bass player Alaín Pérez is. I just found out about him a few weeks ago when Curtis mentioned him in another thread.
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I was chatting with Kevin about the bass book and his comments were: This book will be the most bang for time spent. The beauty of the Alaín is that unlike the Melón and Calixto it's not as hard - it's just got all the little slaps and pops in just the right place to make your timbageek blood boil...
So I have that to look forward to.

groovetpt said:
I also checked out the Beyond Salsa for Ensemble samples timberamayor posted and yes, big difference between timba and salsa for rhythm section players, especially the bass patterns.
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Yeah. Just in case there are any people who wonder what we're talking about here are the links to some audio samples from Ensemble where you can hear the same harmonic progression handled in a salsa fashion and timba fashion, also a sample of an efecto emphasizing the conga part in this case. It's a great illustration of how salsa and timba are similar yet different.

Salsa groove
timba.com/page_files/0000/5645/trad.mp3

Timba groove
timba.com/page_files/0000/5646/timba-bass.mp3

Example of efecto with congas up front
timba.com/page_files/0000/5647/efecto-12-congas.mp3

Actually during the cuerpo salsa and timba can sound very similar, with the bass playing a basic bombo-ponche pattern and the percussion playing a standard marcha. It's when the montuno hits that the really big differences start. As Issac once said "Nosotros después del montono...cabe todo".
 
AfroCubanPerWor said:
And if anyone hasn't checked out Kevin's FREE eBook on Arsenio Rodriguez -- GO NOW!
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Yeah I LOVE that book. It's so full of info and the audio samples help so much. I am amazed by how different things sounded after Arsenio's innovations.

EDIT: Plus book 2 of the Feliciano Arango series is out now. Not to mention the upcoming class and concert at Berklee in Boston and hopefully some other concerts, possibly in Chicago...
timba.com/blog_posts/feliciano-arango-s-new-book
 
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