Creative Piano Arts: How To Play Groovy Latin Piano, Module1

Name: Creative Piano Arts: How To Play Groovy Latin Piano, Module1
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Salsa, Bossa & Co: Spice Up Your Piano Playing!

Last updated 9/2019

English

What you'll learn

You will learn how to play authentic Latin American piano patterns on the piano in a simple and systematic way - with sheet music and audio files.
You start with a simple salsa piano pattern and develop it step by step into a professional piano tumbao.
You'll take a look behind the scenes of salsa rhythms and understand how everything fits together.
For the real salsa feeling you'll learn to accompany yourself with your left hand playing the typical salsa bass figure.
You'll be able to play typical Bossa Nova rhythm patterns, chords and bass lines.
What matters to us is not only to show how something is played, but also why. This way you can easily transfer what you have learned to your own music.

3 sections • 7 lectures • 1h 10m total length

The Clave4:04
In this video I explain the "DNS" of latin american music: the son clave, the bossa clave and the rhumba clave. You'll learn how they sound, how to play them and how they're written in notes.
2:3 or 3:2 Clave?15:37
The clave as a two-bar-pattern is the underlying concept of Latin American music. In this video you'll learn how to easily recognize if salsa music is played in 2:3 or 3:2 clave. You'll also learn some great rhythm exercices that will make you feel at home in salsa rhythms.

A Basic Salsa Tumbao12:44
From The Basic Tumbao To Rich Harmonic And Rhythmic Patterns8:00
In this video we'll develop the basic tumbao pattern step by step into professional, real-world salsa tumbaos.
Six Great Tumbaos To Add To Your Repertoire9:13
In addition to the tumbao variations from lecture 4, I'll show you how to play six great tumbaos. As a pianist it's always good to have something up your sleeve!
Learn To Play The Bass With Your Left Hand, The Tumbao With The Right!13:04
For the real Salsa feeling a bass player is needed. If there's none at hand, simply play the bass figure with your left hand. In this video you'll learn in a systematic approach how to do that.

You should have a piano or keyboard (of course!)
You should have some basic piano background.
Being able to read music will help, but is not a must.
An audio player so you can take advantage of the backing tracks that are provided with the course.

At first the basics: You'll learn the different Types of Claves and their fundamental importance for latin american rhythms.
I'll show you how to easily recognize whether a song is in 2:3 or 3:2 Clave from listening to the typical percussion patterns. And we'll do some very good rhythmic exercises to make you feel at Home in Salsa Music.
Step by step you will learn two basic Salsa Piano Patterns for 2:3 and 3:2 clave, and
how to develop Professional Tumbaos out of them.
You'll also learn how to play Six Great Tumbaos ready for use. But that's not all:
I'll also show you how to accompany yourself with the typical Salsa Bass Figure with your Left Hand - it's great fun to do that! Not to mention the
great Bossa Nova Patterns including bass figures that you can use in many exciting ways.

Included are lots of pdf files and mp3 backing tracks to practice with.

Welcome to CreativePianoArts - Let's get started!

Advanced beginners who want to learn how to play authentic Latin American music.
Everybody who would like to get more insight into this amazing music.
Piano players who want to expand their range of musical styles.
Lovers of latin american music.