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Many more YouTube documentaries added

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April 26, 2015

Here’s the latest one:

… and the full list:

http://www.timba.com/video_pages/beyond-salsa-mini-documentaries

… and a metric ton of classic live Cuban concerts here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/timberamayor/videos

Tirso Duarte & Charanga Habanera – another mini-documentary

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January 3, 2015

Maintenance Fix for BS Piano Vol. 12

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December 12, 2014

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.

RIGHT-CLICK or CONTROL-CLICK to save the fixed archive to your hard drive (it’s only about 4 mb).

BSP 12 YouTube video coming soon.

Here’s a youtube of the original song:

Melón: The Movie

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December 1, 2014

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:

Maintenance Upgrade for BS Piano Volume 7 Audio

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November 20, 2014

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:

http://www.timba.com/artists/news/v7-fixes.zip

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:

Intro Video for Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 5

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November 12, 2014

This one has some interesting stuff about generic salsa montunos versus timba tumbaos.

3 New Book Intro Videos

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November 8, 2014

Here are the preview videos for Volumes 2, 3, and 4 of Beyond Salsa Piano.

 

 

 

New Series of YouTube Videos

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November 5, 2014

Over the next month, I’ll be doing introductory YouTube videos for each book. Here’s the first one:

Alain Pérez’s New Album w/Melón, Pico, Daria & Co.

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September 6, 2014

Getting the old Issac 97 band back together!

 

Fixes for 2 Distorted Audio Files in BS Bass V1

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July 25, 2014

Thanks to reader Ron in AU for finding the distortion in two audio files for Beyond Salsa Bass, Vol. 1

The fixes can be downloaded here:

http://www.timba.com/artists/news/bass-v1-fix.zip.

If anyone has photos of early 1990s Cuban bassists (e.g., Frank Rubio, Pipo Noroña) please contact me.

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  • Many more YouTube documentaries added
  • Tirso Duarte & Charanga Habanera – another mini-documentary
  • Maintenance Fix for BS Piano Vol. 12
  • Melón: The Movie
  • Maintenance Upgrade for BS Piano Volume 7 Audio

About Kevin Moore

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.

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  • Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 12 Pupy Pedroso, Pt. 3July 14, 2014 - 8:43 am

      The third Pupy Pedroso volume covers the history of Los Van Van from 1989 until Pupy’s departure from the group in 2001.

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