I’m so happy to find such an authentic tutorial of the salsa pattern. I hear it all the time in music but never really understood how it works. So thank you, now I can play the real thing on the piano!
I watched this video 2 years ago a gave up my dream of learning salsa science after watching it. But in may 2017 I watched it again and got it, very nice video.
I'm glad to hear you haven't given up! Yes sometimes we need to let things sit and process in our brains for a while ... and then when we revisit them they seem easier than they did the first time. Great news. Enjoy!!
I loved your teaching... I saw many others, but I stuck myself onto your pedagogy as you managed to put difficult concepts into simple logical demonstrations!
I am learning and applying some of them to my 5-string and 6-string bass guitars (not just playing 1 5 8 tumbao on the "and of 2 & 4"). So much fun ... Thanks for this!
@@vrodriguesmusic Of course! I interviewed him as well. I used to be the Assistant Manager for "Bassics" magazine and a contributing writer for "Bass Player." Additionally, I was the Producer/Host/Engineer of "The Global Beat" podcast for "Global Rhythm" magazine (and wrote for several others including "Downbeat," "Modern Drummer," "Jazziz," many other publications and several websites such as abstractlogix.com.) Also interviewed Rebecca Mauleon, Hiromi, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and numerous others.
@@robertkaye5434 Wow that's fantastic!!! Please feel free to reply with URLs to any of your interviews here that are available online, I'm sure a lot of people seeing this would love to read them.
I'm just a guitar player here that's trying to improve my piano playing skills and you're an awesome teacher! I actually used this video in a guitar class that I was teaching last night to explain about Rhythm placement and how it's really important to be consistent to sound right in various genres. Thanks!
Hi Vanessa - a wonderful NYC musician found your tutorial and sent it to me. I am recommending it to other musicians, too. We love the clarity of your explanations; plus, your time is amazing, girl!!
Outstanding - thanks! Great teaching style, perfect pace, helpful addition of the clave in the corner - just perfect. Cant wait to work on this and to learn more.
excellent, vanessa I liked how you explained everything in detail, I think for that nesecitamos learn, your tutorials is a good alternative to start music lessons .. go ahead
Si ya lo he buscado pero no lo he conseguido, quizas no he buscado en los sitios correctos. Lo que pasa es que tu forma de tocar me llamó porque tiene mucho corazón y eso le da un tumbao excepcional. Espero que coseches muchos éxitos en la musica. Saludos. Sinceramente Luis
Thank you for explaining this rhythmic structure. The counterpoint between the comp and the 2-3 clave is so subtle yet so complex. You do a wonderful job showing that in the vid with the Clave insert - Thanks again
Thanks so much for your feedback, I'm very happy to know you've found it helpful. Yes, clave is really the most important aspect of the montuno/tumbao rhythm.
Thanks so much! Playing and dancing are very much related, it is so important to really feel the rhythm of this music inside your core, whether you are playing or dancing ... I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Im a salsa addict... This tutorial is just pushing me to play some montuno on my piano (obviously I need to learn first). You really seems to feel music on your soul, keep on it!
Ok, so I've just discovered Vanessa Rodriguez and I'm already hooked. This is exactly the kind of straightforward, basic instruction any piano student can use to learn the correct way.Your'e awesome Vanessa!!
:) I'm so glad you found it helpful. Yes, the rhythm is absolutely the most important aspect of this style, followed by the melodic phrases. It's wonderful music! Enjoy! cheers
i agree with pablo - vanessa you have an infectious way about you - slightly like a learned professor and yet so much passion bubbling through too. very clear also - thanks
Hahaha!! Yes well. I actually put an ebook out as well, also with the aim of being as agony-free as possible. In any case, I'm very happy you found this video helpful. Cheers
Thank you so much! I saw this about maybe 4 years ago. and enjoyed it then. Glad I found it again so I can learn how to put that "ritmo" tumbao in my fingers.
Thank you Vanessa ! I like your talent to teach us what you like. I'm pianist too (42 year's old), and enthousiastic visiting all your videos very soon. Big kisses from Brittany, France - Romy
Hi Romy, thanks so much for your comment. It's wonderful to see all kinds of different people of different ages from different countries learning and enjoying Latin music :) Have fun!! Beijos do Brasil
Young lady you are awesome on that piano. You seem to know your stuff as far as salsa rhythm goes. You can be a great inspiration to the new upcoming salseros salsros. God bless you.
Thanks Vanessa, I'm a bass player that is starting to learn some piano and play a lot of Latin bass. Always wanted to learn montuno's on piano. Thanks for great instruction.
musically you sound like a native latina...you got the touch... keep it up we can use role models for our young people who want to follow the traditions of our people.
Thanks so much! You'll get there … get some basic technique happening, but remember the most important thing here is not chops, it's the correct rhythm … it won't take you as long as you think. Have fun :)
Holy smokes that part at 2:58 is really challenging for me to learn. I literally ripped your video to my PC & placed it on my video compositor and looped that part over and over like 20 times on my portable yamaha and I'm frying my brain trying to get the fingering coordinated.
Hi there, thanks for your comment! This tumbao at 2:58 is very similar to the break in the song Mi Tierra, which I also did a video about: ua-cam.com/video/JybMBBQW_Tk/v-deo.html
The drumming is good but it's a process like many things in life. I wanted to tell you that I love the organ trio video's. You guys are great! You are fun to watch! Looks like you're having a lot of fun! Best to you!
Vanessa Thank you for posting this...I play country/rockabilly piano....However all my life I have been hearing this cuban rhythm from movies to Ricky Ricardo- Lucy TV shows and have always wondered what it was....Thanks to UA-cam you have answered the basic compelling questions that have bugging me for 50 years.....
+Harold Price I love stories like that. UA-cam (amongst other sites and apps - Shazam comes to mind as well) has brought many musical revelations to many people. I'm happy to have helped. Cheers!
As a guitar player we've always wanted to know the 'secret of the clave', how to really listen to the technique and structure and then play rhythms along with it. Though I can get around the keyboard very little, but enough to form the chords, hearing and learning the progressions is a very valuable learning experience and inspires me to practice more. Thanks a lot Vanessa~!
Besides being adorable and cute Vanessa, your video is informative and helpful. Montuno is one of my favorite rhythms for piano. I play drums and I love to solo over this rhythm. Thanks.
This is such a great introduction to playing salsa piano! I've been playing piano all my life and always wanted to learn salsa but only just started trying to learn it now. This video was really easy to follow without being too slow like many other videos. Thank you!! :)
that's a great vid :) i dance salsa and also dance&play other generes... that's the first time i try to play the montuno with my fingers rather than my feet ;) and u've been very helpful!
Gracias La Senorita Rodrigues. You are lovely and kind enough to reply to the question marks in my head :) I will listen to the recording. I happen to have this title Chan Chan by La Familia Valera Miranda but seems like no piano. Not sure if the string played is the Tres, but yes, there is the 2-3 clave played outright. I am actually from the island-city-state of Singapore. I hope to be in Rio for next year's World Cup. Thank you again.
You are wonderful! I love this video, your explanations are superb, you really have an understanding of these rhythms/chords. Thanks for this, I've learned a bunch!
Excellent, tutorial sessions Vanessa Rodrigues my skill's are most definitely going to improve. Aim totally grateful and thankful as well. Most of all (El talento que tienes, proviene de un regalo de Dios en el cielo.)
Thank you vanessa. That would help me to understand some concepts that I misunderstood. I'm not a piano player but I definitely would like learn how to play. It just that. Coming from Cuba I have been surrounded by a lot of musicians never ever heard such title. However. Tumbaos. Is very well known. When it come to piano players. Here in united States it's different. It's like same thing different names or techniques. To summarize thank you. A fan of your talent.
AH merci de répondre en Français :) je comptais en 4 noires comme vous et j'ai vu que les Cubains écrivent la clave en 2 /2 2 blanches du coup on compte 1 et 2 et pour une clave complète, juste sur la pulsation, c'est plus posé (et plus juste pour la phrase musicale je crois) Ca s'entend beaucoup dans la Timba, et beaucoup moins dans le mambo. Pour moi ça m'a aidé a calmer ma façon de phraser (et de danser !) mais je débute plus ou moins ! Vos explications sont très bonnes, merci !
Hi Vanessa - It took awhile but your instruction helped me learn enough to arrange and record a praise and worship song by Paul Baloche called Praise Adonai. It looks like I will get a chance to perform it next week - the piano, bass, drum set, percussion and horn parts are recorded (yeah Roland!) - I will sing and play a guitar lead over it - any way thanks again for your instruction - it was clear enough to help a novice of the piano get a satisfactory recording done. Craig
Thanks so much for your comments! Yes this will fit very nicely on guitar, in fact the origin of the tumbao/montuno pattern is from a Cuban 3-string guitar called the 'tres'. Have fun!!
Great answer, thank you , I first felt it counter intuitive and it can lend to phrasing mistakes, (with the disagreeable sensation that you dont feel the pulse !) understanding that a 2/2 writing is used was an eye opener to me for clave, and provide me more freeness. Then, Latin Jazz can phrase easily in 4/4 so it is easy to be mistaken is not it ?
Hi Steve, thanks for your message! Very close ... it is indeed an arpeggio, but it's actually going up rather than down ... it might sound like it's descending because of the top C in the pinky, but the octave is doubled in the pinky and thumb, and the melody of the arpeggio goes up from the thumb playing the bottom C, up through Eb, G, then the top C (even though the Cs are always played by the thumb and pinky together) ... hope that helps! cheers
Thank you Vanessa for sharing your video. I trained in piano for 4 years and have been playing off and on for years. How would you recommend I go about retraining myself to learn and play salsa and even improvise.
Thank you so much for confirming. Glad I got the timing right :) How do you feel the 2-3 clave ? (in the video's first half's basic montuno's, only 2 and 6.5 are played on the piano, how can i feel the clave?) I think I hear some of the 2-3 clave in the last montuno at 5:00 minute, I can hear some piano bass keys on 2, 3 and 6.5 and 8. I read clave is embedded into Latin music. I'm learning by brute force method, ie by listening over and over again to salsa songs and counting 123, 567 :)
Hola Alex :) Será un tiempo antes de que pueda hacer un video, pero la progresión de acordes es: D7 | G | A7 | D7 (in G major) ... I hope that helps for now ...
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I’m so happy to find such an authentic tutorial of the salsa pattern. I hear it all the time in music but never really understood how it works. So thank you, now I can play the real thing on the piano!
Wonderful! I'm so glad to hear you found it so useful. That's why I do this :) Cheers
Your explanations, examples, the way you use the technology, and your joyful presence make this is a great lesson. You are a gifted teacher.
This is by far the best tutorial for keyboards ever. Period.
Wow, thanks so much, I'm so glad it was so helpful for you.
I watched this video 2 years ago a gave up my dream of learning salsa science after watching it. But in may 2017 I watched it again and got it, very nice video.
I'm glad to hear you haven't given up! Yes sometimes we need to let things sit and process in our brains for a while ... and then when we revisit them they seem easier than they did the first time. Great news. Enjoy!!
Thanks, Vanessa! You've helped yet another piano player make a break-through into Latin music!
Really glad to hear it :) cheers!
Vanessa, great teaching and really clear explanations. You're a natural teacher.
I loved your teaching... I saw many others, but I stuck myself onto your pedagogy
as you managed to put difficult concepts into simple logical demonstrations!
Vanessa, you're awesome! I'm a retired Jazz and Salsa pianist. You do an outstanding job breaking it down. Le deseo mucho exito.
11 Years later you helped me a lot! Thank you mrs. Rodrigues
Wonderful, I'm so glad you found this helpful. Cheers!
I am learning and applying some of them to my 5-string and 6-string bass guitars (not just playing 1 5 8 tumbao on the "and of 2 & 4"). So much fun ... Thanks for this!
Hi Robert! How wonderful, I'm really happy to hear this! Have you ever checked out bassist Oscar Stagnaro?
@@vrodriguesmusic Of course! I interviewed him as well. I used to be the Assistant Manager for "Bassics" magazine and a contributing writer for "Bass Player." Additionally, I was the Producer/Host/Engineer of "The Global Beat" podcast for "Global Rhythm" magazine (and wrote for several others including "Downbeat," "Modern Drummer," "Jazziz," many other publications and several websites such as abstractlogix.com.) Also interviewed Rebecca Mauleon, Hiromi, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and numerous others.
@@robertkaye5434 Wow that's fantastic!!! Please feel free to reply with URLs to any of your interviews here that are available online, I'm sure a lot of people seeing this would love to read them.
(myself included)
Vanessa - You are a wonderful teacher! Your Joy of Music is so inspiring. You do not look like the MONSTER you are on the Hammond ! Thank-you.
I'm just a guitar player here that's trying to improve my piano playing skills and you're an awesome teacher! I actually used this video in a guitar class that I was teaching last night to explain about Rhythm placement and how it's really important to be consistent to sound right in various genres. Thanks!
Wonderful! So glad to hear that, thanks for sharing.
thanks for sharing Vanessa I am a long time pianist just getting into Latin so this is very helpful!
Glad to hear it! Best wishes to you with your new musical project.
Hi Vanessa - a wonderful NYC musician found your tutorial and sent it to me. I am recommending it to other musicians, too. We love the clarity of your explanations; plus, your time is amazing, girl!!
Outstanding - thanks! Great teaching style, perfect pace, helpful addition of the clave in the corner - just perfect. Cant wait to work on this and to learn more.
excellent, vanessa I liked how you explained everything in detail, I think for that nesecitamos learn, your tutorials is a good alternative to start music lessons .. go ahead
There is nothing more beautiful than a young lady playing a musical instrument and smiling at the same time, thanks a lot, you had made my day !!!
Thank you :)
I like the tutorial, and the vamp and solo at the end, nice right hand work and your timing and feel is impeccable.
Thank you very much :)
Si ya lo he buscado pero no lo he conseguido, quizas no he buscado en los sitios correctos. Lo que pasa es que tu forma de tocar me llamó porque tiene mucho corazón y eso le da un tumbao excepcional. Espero que coseches muchos éxitos en la musica. Saludos.
Sinceramente Luis
I love this lesson. I’ve returned to this video many times.
Wonderful, I'm so glad you find it helpful!
@@vrodriguesmusic Wow! Thank you ☺️☺️
Thank you for explaining this rhythmic structure. The counterpoint between the comp and the 2-3 clave is so subtle yet so complex. You do a wonderful job showing that in the vid with the Clave insert - Thanks again
Thanks so much for your feedback, I'm very happy to know you've found it helpful. Yes, clave is really the most important aspect of the montuno/tumbao rhythm.
Thanks so much! Playing and dancing are very much related, it is so important to really feel the rhythm of this music inside your core, whether you are playing or dancing ... I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Im a salsa addict... This tutorial is just pushing me to play some montuno on my piano (obviously I need to learn first). You really seems to feel music on your soul, keep on it!
Ok, so I've just discovered Vanessa Rodriguez and I'm already hooked. This is exactly the kind of straightforward, basic instruction any piano student can use to learn the correct way.Your'e awesome Vanessa!!
Thanks so much!! I'm really glad to hear my teaching style works for you. Enjoy!!
hi Vanessa - hope all is well for you - well I stopped playing the montuno for a long time it seems and now i am going to try to learn it again.
Hello Craig, thank you for your comment. All the best in your project to take up playing montunos again, I hope you find my tutorials helpful. Cheers!
This is the first salsa-based piano lesson that made sense to me - I think it is because you started with the explanation of the timing. Thank you!!
:) I'm so glad you found it helpful. Yes, the rhythm is absolutely the most important aspect of this style, followed by the melodic phrases. It's wonderful music! Enjoy! cheers
i agree with pablo - vanessa you have an infectious way about you - slightly like a learned professor and yet so much passion bubbling through too. very clear also - thanks
will c Thank you very much, I really appreciate your comment, and I'm happy to know that you find my lesson enjoyable and helpful. Cheers!
Freekin' cool, awesome video, sure takes years of agony away from trying to learn that from a jazz piano textbook. Thank you !!
Hahaha!! Yes well. I actually put an ebook out as well, also with the aim of being as agony-free as possible. In any case, I'm very happy you found this video helpful. Cheers
Thank you so much! I saw this about maybe 4 years ago. and enjoyed it then. Glad I found it again so I can learn how to put that "ritmo" tumbao in my fingers.
Hi Richie, thanks for your comment, and for finding this video again, I'm glad it's useful for you :)
I love your simplicity, you explain very well. thanks for the video.
Thank you Vanessa ! I like your talent to teach us what you like. I'm pianist too (42 year's old), and enthousiastic visiting all your videos very soon. Big kisses from Brittany, France - Romy
Hi Romy, thanks so much for your comment. It's wonderful to see all kinds of different people of different ages from different countries learning and enjoying Latin music :) Have fun!! Beijos do Brasil
Great help with the beat! Thanks Vanessa! xx
Young lady you are awesome on that piano. You seem to know your stuff as far as salsa rhythm goes. You can be a great inspiration to the new upcoming salseros salsros. God bless you.
Thank you so much for your kind words, much appreciated. All the best
Thanks Vanessa, I'm a bass player that is starting to learn some piano and play a lot of Latin bass. Always wanted to learn montuno's on piano. Thanks for great instruction.
Wonderfully instructional, muchas gracias Vanessa
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
musically you sound like a native latina...you got the touch... keep it up we can use role models for our young people who want to follow the traditions of our people.
Vanessa you're awesome, I love your video, but I can't learn from it yet because I'm an infant with the piano. Respect!
Thanks so much! You'll get there … get some basic technique happening, but remember the most important thing here is not chops, it's the correct rhythm … it won't take you as long as you think. Have fun :)
Holy smokes that part at 2:58 is really challenging for me to learn.
I literally ripped your video to my PC & placed it on my video compositor and looped that part over and over like 20 times on my portable yamaha and I'm frying my brain trying to get the fingering coordinated.
Hi there, thanks for your comment! This tumbao at 2:58 is very similar to the break in the song Mi Tierra, which I also did a video about: ua-cam.com/video/JybMBBQW_Tk/v-deo.html
Awesome piano player Vanessa, I allways Love playing salsa with my Keyboard.
The drumming is good but it's a process like many things in life. I wanted to tell you that I love the organ trio video's. You guys are great! You are fun to watch! Looks like you're having a lot of fun! Best to you!
Well done
Thank you very much
Gracias Vanesa. Tienes buena pedagogía eh visto varios vídeos pero pocos se le entiende.
Muchísima gracias, me alegro mucho que fue útil para tí. Un abrazo
Vanessa Thank you for posting this...I play country/rockabilly piano....However all my life I have been hearing this cuban rhythm from movies to Ricky Ricardo- Lucy TV shows and have always wondered what it was....Thanks to UA-cam you have answered the basic compelling questions that have bugging me for 50 years.....
+Harold Price I love stories like that. UA-cam (amongst other sites and apps - Shazam comes to mind as well) has brought many musical revelations to many people. I'm happy to have helped. Cheers!
Thanks for posting this video. It helped me a lot. I've always wanted to try to play salsa rhythms on the piano!
+Allan K Great! I'm very glad you found it helpful
As a guitar player we've always wanted to know the 'secret of the clave', how to really listen to the technique and structure and then play rhythms along with it. Though I can get around the keyboard very little, but enough to form the chords, hearing and learning the progressions is a very valuable learning experience and inspires me to practice more. Thanks a lot Vanessa~!
+Spyder Logan You're very welcome, I'm glad you find the tutorial helpful :)
Very Good... You show it in a simple way for the beginers. Thanks so much...
You're very welcome and thank you for your comment, I'm glad you found it useful
That smile of yours made my day, eres muy agradable! Very instructional tutorial, muchas gracias bonita!
Thank you very much
Besides being adorable and cute Vanessa, your video is informative and helpful. Montuno is one of my favorite rhythms for piano. I play drums and I love to solo over this rhythm. Thanks.
God blessing you! Congratulations Vanessa !!
+Alberto Tico Cardenas :) thank you
This is such a great introduction to playing salsa piano! I've been playing piano all my life and always wanted to learn salsa but only just started trying to learn it now. This video was really easy to follow without being too slow like many other videos. Thank you!! :)
Also awesome jam at the end :D
Thank you very much, so glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful!! Cheers!
Wow!!!!I'm really impressed..your video is really helpful and clear!!!I really like your style..brava!!))
Absolutely fantastic video and what a great presentation!! Thanks so much!!
Vanessa, this is great! I finally found your channel.
Welcome! :)
Me gusta, lo explicas muy bien. Voy a aprender contigo. Saludos desde Catalunya-España.
that's a great vid :) i dance salsa and also dance&play other generes... that's the first time i try to play the montuno with my fingers rather than my feet ;) and u've been very helpful!
Buenísimo el video! Aprendiendo "Sonero Mayor" de Willie Colón, y este tutorial me esta ayudando con el "montuneo" Gracias!
:) que bueno que mi video está auyudándote. Y Willie Colón es fantástico. Disfruta mucho!
Olá! Obrigada por seu comentário!
Estou virando brasileira - rs (sou do Canada mas moro no Rio)
Este teclado é um Yamaha Clavinova.
Awosome Vannesa... thanks for this tutorial... Soy mexicano y me encanta la musica de tumbao!!
Muchísima gracias! Enjoy!!
Thanks so much! I love Salsa and I always wondered what that wonderful rhythm was called!
Gracias La Senorita Rodrigues. You are lovely and kind enough to reply to the question marks in my head :)
I will listen to the recording. I happen to have this title Chan Chan by La Familia Valera Miranda but seems like no piano. Not sure if the string played is the Tres, but yes, there is the 2-3 clave played outright.
I am actually from the island-city-state of Singapore. I hope to be in Rio for next year's World Cup. Thank you again.
You are wonderful! I love this video, your explanations are superb, you really have an understanding of these rhythms/chords. Thanks for this, I've learned a bunch!
Dom Ham Thanks so much for your comment, I'm so glad you find my videos helpful :)
Qué bonito tutorial! gracias.
Muchas gracias, con mucho gusto.
Very Clear. No confusion! (I like what you said about not getting yelled at by the Cuban guys! Nothing like a scowling Cubano!)
This has helped me so much! Thank you Vanessa!
Thank you very much for your comment, I'm glad you found this video helpful
Excellent, tutorial sessions Vanessa Rodrigues my skill's are most definitely going to improve. Aim totally grateful and thankful as well. Most of all (El talento que tienes, proviene de un regalo de Dios en el cielo.)
Thank you vanessa. That would help me to understand some concepts that I misunderstood. I'm not a piano player but I definitely would like learn how to play. It just that. Coming from Cuba I have been surrounded by a lot of musicians never ever heard such title. However. Tumbaos. Is very well known. When it come to piano players. Here in united States it's different. It's like same thing different names or techniques. To summarize thank you. A fan of your talent.
AH merci de répondre en Français :) je comptais en 4 noires comme vous et j'ai vu que les Cubains écrivent la clave en 2 /2 2 blanches du coup on compte 1 et 2 et pour une clave complète, juste sur la pulsation, c'est plus posé (et plus juste pour la phrase musicale je crois) Ca s'entend beaucoup dans la Timba, et beaucoup moins dans le mambo. Pour moi ça m'a aidé a calmer ma façon de phraser (et de danser !) mais je débute plus ou moins ! Vos explications sont très bonnes, merci !
Thank you, very nice tutorial! Like your feel!
Hi Vanessa -
It took awhile but your instruction helped me learn enough to arrange and record a praise and worship song by Paul Baloche called Praise Adonai. It looks like I will get a chance to perform it next week - the piano, bass, drum set, percussion and horn parts are recorded (yeah Roland!) - I will sing and play a guitar lead over it - any way thanks again for your instruction - it was clear enough to help a novice of the piano get a satisfactory recording done.
Craig
Excellent! I'm very happy to hear this. Best wishes to you
Your instructions are clear and helpful! te agradezco :)
Muchas gracias :)
WAOOOO!!! Vanessa, que buen tutorial, eres la mejor profesora de piano!!!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
Thanks for your teaching, it is very clear. I try this on the guitar ! I love polyrythmic patterns, like in flamenco... Keep going on !
Thanks so much for your comments! Yes this will fit very nicely on guitar, in fact the origin of the tumbao/montuno pattern is from a Cuban 3-string guitar called the 'tres'. Have fun!!
Excelent , many congratulations.......good pace and swing. I am impressed the way you touch,
well beautiful
Thank you very much :)
Very good Vanessa you play fantastic....
Thank you! Cheers
Hi Vanessa....! Congrats.... Very nicely done....
Thank you very much
Id love to learn to play thé last thing you played. CAN you make a video on that ?. Thanks and merry Christmas
Hello and thanks so much for your message. That's a good idea :) Merry (belated) Christmas to you too, and Happy New Year!
Great Vanessa! Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!
Thank you, you too!
I totally remember you! Congrats again on running the marathon!! And I hope you find my tutorials helpful :) abraços do Rio!
Great answer, thank you , I first felt it counter intuitive and it can lend to phrasing mistakes, (with the disagreeable sensation that you dont feel the pulse !) understanding that a 2/2 writing is used was an eye opener to me for clave, and provide me more freeness. Then, Latin Jazz can phrase easily in 4/4 so it is easy to be mistaken is not it ?
very nice
Thank you!
Thank you, I'm glad you find the videos helpful. Where do you live?
Que bien tocas el piano Vane. Felicidades
I really loved the Fsus to F7
Another great introduction. Thanks.
Yeah we're having a ball, those guys are great fun to play with! Best to you too! VR
Thank you! great tutorial, here's my like 🙂👍
Cheers
Hi Steve, thanks for your message!
Very close ... it is indeed an arpeggio, but it's actually going up rather than down ... it might sound like it's descending because of the top C in the pinky, but the octave is doubled in the pinky and thumb, and the melody of the arpeggio goes up from the thumb playing the bottom C, up through Eb, G, then the top C (even though the Cs are always played by the thumb and pinky together) ... hope that helps!
cheers
Fabulous! Thanks so much Vanessa!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
Thank you Vanessa for sharing your video. I trained in piano for 4 years and have been playing off and on for years. How would you recommend I go about retraining myself to learn and play salsa and even improvise.
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Thanks very much for sharing! and keeping it simple 👍
You're very welcome! Yes I try to explain things in a way that is simple and easy to understand ...
can you xplain how do you make the chord or the notes that we have to play??
xcelent video!! you 're awesome!!!
Love those syncopations. Good playing
+Jeffrey Middelveld cheers
Thank you so much for confirming. Glad I got the timing right :)
How do you feel the 2-3 clave ? (in the video's first half's basic montuno's, only 2 and 6.5 are played on the piano, how can i feel the clave?)
I think I hear some of the 2-3 clave in the last montuno at 5:00 minute, I can hear some piano bass keys on 2, 3 and 6.5 and 8.
I read clave is embedded into Latin music. I'm learning by brute force method, ie by listening over and over again to salsa songs and counting 123, 567 :)
thank's for your explanation of Montuno's basic Rhytm... it really help me.. :)
¡Muchísima gracias! What bands did you used to play with?
Hola Alex :)
Será un tiempo antes de que pueda hacer un video, pero la progresión de acordes es: D7 | G | A7 | D7 (in G major) ... I hope that helps for now ...
Muy bueno! Nice one
Muchas gracias!
Great. Full of examples we need
Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful