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- Listening Tour 1: Pre-Revolution
- Listening Tour 2: Post Revolution
- Listening Tour 3: Timba!
- LIstening Tour 4: Folkloric Music
- Rhythmic Exercises 1: Feeling the Groove
- Rhythmic Exercises 2: Easy Rhythms
- Rhythmic Exercises 3: Dance and Clave Rhy...
- Rhythmic Perspective Exercises: Tricky Rh...
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Beyond Salsa for Beginners - Table of Contents
This is the Table of Contents for the complete print and eBook versions of Beyond Salsa for Beginners: An Introduction to Latin Music for Dancers and Listeners.
Table of Contents
More About the Listening Tours
About the Free Downloadable Audio Files
Listening Tour 1: Pre-Revolution (1900-1959)
How to Use the Listening Tours
Further Listening Recommendations for Danzón
Chapter 1: Feeling the Grid – Getting Comfortable with Latin Rhythms
Demystifying Music Notation or Four Ways to Say Nothing
Exercise 1-1: Feeling the Subdivisions • Audio Tracks 1-1a & 1-1b
Exercise 1-2: Feeling the Subdivisions • Audio Track 1-2
Exercise 1-3: main beats • Audio Tracks 1-3a and 1-3b
Exercise 1-4: main beats + 3-2 son clave • Audio Tracks 1-4a-d
The Psychological Stages of Learning
Chapter 2: Two-Beat Rhythmic Cells
Exercise 2-1: güiro time-keeping pattern • Audio Tracks 2-1a-d
Exercise 2-2: tresillo • Audio Tracks 2-2a-d
Exercise 2-3: displaced tresillo • Audio Tracks 2-3a-d
Exercise 2-4: cinquillo • Audio Tracks 2-4a-d
Exercise 2-5: bomba sicá • Audio Tracks 2-5a-d
Exercise 2-6: bombo-ponche • Audio Tracks 2-6a-d
Exercise 2-7: bota • Audio Tracks 2-7a-d
Exercise 2-8: bolero bass • Audio Tracks 2-8a-d
Exercise 2-9: habanera • Audio Tracks 2-9a-d
Exercise 2-10: common bass and kick cell • Audio Tracks 2-10a-d
Exercise 2-11: 2-beat conga marcha cell • Audio Tracks 2-11a-d
Listening Tour 2: Post-Revolution (1960-1989)
Irakere and other Modernized Jazzbands
Ritmo Oriental and other Modernized Charangas
Chapter 3: Four-Beat Rhythmic Cells
Exercise 3-1: basic dance step “on 1” • Audio Tracks 3-1a-d
Exercise 3-2: basic dance step “on 2” • Audio Tracks 3-2a-d and 3-2-prep-a-d
Exercise 3-3: basic dance step “on 3” • Audio Tracks 3-3a-d
Exercise 3-4: basic dance step “on 4” • Audio Tracks 3-4a-d
Variation on Exercise 3-1: basic dance step “New York 2” • (use Audio Track 3-1)
Exercise 3-5: special son montuno step • Audio Tracks 3-5a-d
Exercise 3-6: chachachá • Audio Tracks 3-6a-d
Exercise 3-7: 2-3 son clave • Audio Tracks 3-7a-d
Exercise 3-8: 3-2 son clave • Audio Track 3-8
Exercise 3-9: 2-3 rumba clave • Audio Tracks 3-9a-d
Exercise 3-10: 3-2 rumba clave • Audio Tracks 3-10a-d
Exercise 3-11: 2-3 clave markers • Audio Tracks 3-11a-d
Exercise 3-12: 3-2 clave markers • Audio Tracks 3-12a-d
Exercise 3-13: 2-3 campaneo • Audio Tracks 3-13a-d
Exercise 3-14: 3-2 campaneo • Audio Tracks 3-14a-d
Soapbox Sidebar: Terminology – Get Over It!
Exercise 3-15: 2-3 contracampaneo • Audio Tracks 3-15a-d
Exercise 3-16: 3-2 contracampaneo • Audio Tracks 3-16a-d
Examples of the Three Main Types of mid-20th Century Instrumentation
Exercise 3-17: 2-3 contracampaneo 2 • Audio Tracks 3-17a-d
Exercise 3-18: 3-2 contracampaneo 2 • Audio Tracks 3-18a-d
Exercise 3-19: 2-3 cáscara • Audio Tracks 3-19a-d
Exercise 3-20: 3-2 cáscara • Audio Tracks 3-20a-d
Exercise 3-21: 2-3 cáscara accents • Audio Tracks 3-21a-d
Exercise 3-22: 3-2 cáscara accents • Audio Tracks 3-22a-d
Exercise 3-23: 2-3 cáscara de rumba • Audio Tracks 3-23a-d
Exercise 3-24: 3-2 cáscara de rumba • Audio Tracks 3-24a-d
Exercise 3-25: 2-3 baqueteo • Audio Tracks 3-25a-d
Exercise 3-26: 3-2 baqueteo • Audio Tracks 3-26a-d
Exercise 3-27 • 2-3 common timba marcha kick • Audio Tracks 3-27a-d
Exercise 3-28 • 3-2 common timba marcha kick • Audio Tracks 3-28a-d
Exercise 3-29 • 2-3 common timba presión kick • Audio Tracks 3-29a-d
Exercise 3-30 • 3-2 common timba presión kick • Audio Tracks 3-30a-d
Exercise 3-31 • 2-3 timba kick & snare• Audio Tracks 3-31a-d
Exercise 3-32 • 3-2 timba kick & snare• Audio Tracks 3-32a-d
Exercise 3-33 • 2-3 Los Que Son Son kick & snare • Audio Tracks 3-33a-d
Exercise 3-34 • 3-2 Los Que Son Son kick & snare • Audio Tracks 3-34a-d
Exercise 3-35 • 2-3 Los Que Son Son ghost snare • Audio Tracks 3-35a-d
Exercise 3-36 • 3-2 Los Que Son Son ghost snare • Audio Tracks 3-36a-d
Exercise 3-37 • 2-3 clave-aligned standard conga marcha • Audio Tracks 3-37a-d
Exercise 3-38 • 3-2 clave-aligned standard conga marcha • Audio Tracks 3-38a-d
Exercise 3-39 • 2-3 2-drum conga marcha • Audio Tracks 3-39a-d
Exercise 3-40 • 3-2 2-drum conga marcha • Audio Tracks 3-40a-d
Salsa, Timba, Gears and Dancing
Sidebar: Comparing Issac Delgado and Paulito FG
Manolín, el Médico de la Salsa
Pupy Pedroso and Los Que Son Son
Chapter 4: Perspective in Rhythm – Common Misunderstandings
How Rhythmic Perspective Affects Our Listening Tour Strategy
Rhythmic Perspective Problem 1: Changüí offbeats
Exercise RP-1: main beats + changüí tres • Audio Tracks RP-1a-d
Exercise RP-2: changüí marímbula • (use Audio Tracks 2-11a-d)
Rhythmic Perspective Problem 2: The Anticipated Bass
Exercise RP-3: tumba part for guaguancó • Audio Tracks RP-3a-d
Exercise RP-4: Pare cochero + anticipated bass • Audio Tracks RP-4a and RP-4b
Rhythmic Perspective Problem 3: 4 Groups of 3 or 3 Groups of 4?
Exercise RP-5: main beats + standard 12/8 bell • Audio Tracks RP-5a-d
Rhythmic Perspective Problem 4: “Where’s ‘1’ in 12/8?”
Exercise RP-6: alternate 12/8 bell + main beats • Audio Tracks RP-6a-d
Exercise RP-7: main beats + 12/8 rumba clave • Audio Tracks RP-7a-d
Exercise RP-8: main beats + 12/8 arará sabalú bell • Audio Tracks RP-8a-d
Exercise RP-9: main beats + 12/8 alt. sabalú bell • Audio Tracks RP-9a-d
Exercise RP-10: abakúa drum cell 1 • Audio Tracks RP-10a-d
Exercise RP-11: abakúa drum cell 2 • Audio Tracks RP-11a-d
Exercise RP-12: abakúa drum cell 3 • Audio Tracks RP-12a-d
Exercise RP-13: abakúa displaced shaker pattern • Audio Tracks RP-13a-d
Exercise RP-14: Tumba francesa masón + main beats • Audio Tracks RP-14a-e
Exercise RP-15: Tumba francesa yubá + main beats • Audio Tracks RP-15a-d
Exercise RP-16: Tumba francesa frenté + main beats • Audio Tracks RP-16a-d
Exercise RP-17: Tumba francesa yubá to frenté loop • Audio Track RP-17
Rhythmic Perspective Problem 5: Clave Direction – Dancing in 2-3 versus 3-2
Exercise RP-18: basic dance step + 3-2 son clave • Audio Tracks RP-18a-d
Exercise RP-19: basic dance step + 2-3 son clave • Audio Tracks RP-19a-d
Listening Tour 4: Folkloric Music
Folkloric Music of Cuban Origin
Looking Ahead to The Beyond Salsa Series
Beyond Salsa: The Central Premise
How the Series is Organized and Sold
Understanding Clave and Clave Changes
Beyond Salsa Bongó and Beyond Salsa Congas
Appendix 2: Spanish Explanations for English Speakers
Spanish Letter Combinations with the Same Pronunciation
Appendix 3: Other Style Conventions in this Book
The Beyond Salsa Catalog – 2012
