Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 3, with an intermediate difficulty level, covers the explosive musical developments in Cuba after the 1959 revolution, including Los Van Van, Irakere, Ritmo Oriental, mozambique, songo and cha-onda."

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 1, with a "beginning" difficulty level, covers the earliest antecedents of the piano tumbao and provide exercises for beginning pianists to develop the technique necessary to play salsa and timba piano tumbaos. It begins with piano adaptations of tres guajeos from the seminal folkloric genre of changui, which...

Note: Audio files do not come with any of the Beyond Salsa books - they're a separate downloadable product.] Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 1, with a "beginning" difficulty level, covers the earliest antecedents of the piano tumbao and provide exercises for beginning pianists to develop the technique necessary to play salsa and timba piano...

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 4, with an intermediate difficulty level, covers groups such as Orquesta Reve, Adalberto Alvarez, Son 14, Original de Manzanillo, Los Maravillas de Florida (starting point for Manolito y su Trabuco), and others."

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. After the 5 introductory volumes, Volume 8 is the third of a series of books on specific Cuban pianists, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Ivan "Melon" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manolin, el Medico de la Salsa."

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. Volume 5 is a complete introduction and guide to timba, the innovative genre that exploded onto the Cuban scene in the 1990s. Included are a full history, discography, analysis of rhythm section gears and harmonies, and a series of tumbao exercises to develop each of the innovations of the timba pianists."

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. After the 5 introductory volumes, Volume 6 is the first to cover a specific pianist, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Ivan "Melon" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manolin, el Medico de la Salsa."

Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomas Cruz Conga Method," "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. After the 5 introductory volumes, Volume 7 is the second of a series of books on specific Cuban pianists, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Ivan "Melon" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manolin, el Medico de la Salsa."

Calixto Oviedo is the first featured artist in "Beyond Salsa Percussion," the companion series to author Kevin Moore's acclaimed "Beyond Salsa Piano" series. Oviedo, who played with such groups as NG La Banda and Adalberto Alvarez y su Son, is a living legend among Cuban drummers. This, the third volume of the series, "Calixto Oviedo: Timba Gears," dissects Oviedo's style using the "gear" approach introduced by Moore in 2004 in "The Tomas Cruz Conga Method." At 176 pages, with dozens of carefully transcribed musical examples, the goal of "Calixto Oviedo: Timba Gears" goal is to help...

Calixto Oviedo is the first featured artist in "Beyond Salsa Percussion," the companion series to author Kevin Moore's acclaimed "Beyond Salsa Piano" series. Oviedo, who played with such groups as NG La Banda and Adalberto Alvarez y su Son, is a living legend among Cuban drummers. This, the second volume of the series, "Calixto Oviedo - Drums and Timbales: Basic Rhythms," covers the wide range of traditional rhythmic styles that Oviedo mastered before embarking on the dramatic innovations for which he later became famous. He plays each rhythm in its traditional form and then shows how it can...