I found an error in BS Piano Vol. 12. On page 60, the notation file is wrong – it’s from Que le den candela, not La historia de Tania y Juan! (How come nobody caught that?).
Here is the fixed notation with the audio files (the audio files were right to begin with but I’m including them in the zip anyway).
If you haven’t bought the book, you can (and should!) still download this – it’s free and it’s one of the greatest and most under-rated Los Van Van songs. Ángel Bonne’s vocal is just stupendously great.
The four youtubes on BS Piano Vols. 6, 7, 8 & 9, when put end to end, are sort of a mini-documentary on late 90s timba with a special focus on Issac’s group:
UPDATE: I found another minor issue, so reuploading
While doing the youtube video for Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 7, I made a very disturbing discovery – the clave on the audio files was cruzado for 4 tumbaos. The studio version of Por qué paró stays in 2-3 throughout, but on the live “dance contest” version, they do a seamless type 1 clave change to 3-2 for the “especuladora, llora llorona” coro. Thus, the piano tumbaos for Por qué paró 7, 8, 9 and 10 are all in 3-2 and the audio files are wrong!
And they sound WAY better with the right clave!
Download the fixed files (8 in total because of fast and slow versions) here:
Sorry about that but better late than never … and how come nobody caught this and emailed me? jajajja
And while were on the topic of the fabulous Por qué paró, there are now no less than FOUR live versions of this masterpiece (although the one from the 1997 Festival de la Juventud doesn’t have the 3-2 part – Issac left out the tembleque contest – note that this was the festival where Charanga Habanera got suspended for their racy show.
The first one is the one that corresponds most closely to the book:
Kevin Moore – author of the “Beyond Salsa” series, currently 21 volumes – is the editor of the world’s largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular “Tomás Cruz Conga Method”, a 3-volume series published by Mel Bay Publications, available on amazon.com, and used as textbooks at various colleges and educational institutions. Kevin also produced, co-wrote, and played on the salsa CD “Salsa Gitana”, available at latinpulsemusic.com. The CD reached the semi-final level in the 1998 Grammy Award process. The author has also written several “online books” on various aspects of Cuban music, available for free as a public service on timba.com.