The tenth volume in the Beyond Salsa Piano series focuses on Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso, the founding pianist and one of the principal composers of Cuba's most popular band, Los Van Van, and now the leader of Los Que Son Son, the most successful new Cuban group of the 2000s. Pedroso was ranked #1 in the timba.com readers' poll for "Best Timba Pianist of All-Time" and came in second in the songwriting department. Doubling as a history and music appreciation course, the book contains extensive music notation examples of Pedroso's piano tumbaos, or "montunos," as well as transcriptions of solo and...

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...