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Learn Salsa on Piano

Slides with sound scores

Alberto Betancourt Angel

Copyright © by Alberto Betancourt, DNDA

 Presentation
I offer this simple method to learn to play salsa on the piano in a short time.
It is a digital book ( ebook ) that contains slides with sound scores and exercises for
practice. This is equivalent to having a “virtual teacher” 24 hours a day, for less than
the cost of an individual class.
You will learn salsa on percussion instruments, bass and piano.
You will be trained to accompany salsa by creating your own montunos in real time.
The knowledge acquired here will help you accompany the different rhythms of
tropical music.
Listen to many sauces on YouTube or in your favorite club, to acquire the flavor in
their execution.

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 Content

The rhythm of Salsa

Peel
Sauce Pattern
Bongos and Bell
Battery
With gas
I lay down on the ground floor
Guaje on the piano
Montuno in major mode
Montuno in minor mode
They are montuno
Montunos about progressions
Montunos in Diatonic Circles
Montuno for a Sauce
Creating mountains
Antillean Rhythms
Basic Piano Chords
 The Rhythm of Salsa

• SALSA has a very rich and very exciting rhythm due to its syncopation and the
complexity of accents in its different rhythmic instruments.
• The key is the soul of the sauce. The congas or tumbas give it the flavor. Master
the combination of congas and key in the salsa:
key and conga
Key 382 Key 283

Click on the Musescore mu button to open the sound score.

Practice the clave with the right and the congas with the left until you achieve perfect
mastery.
 Peel

The shell is a very typical figure of salsa and can be performed in Cencerro (cow bell) /
dish (bell) / or rim of timbaleta.

Battery:
The drums play this rhythmic base with cymbals (hihat) and bass drum:
 Sauce Pattern
• In the next step we mix these four instruments, thus achieving a very rich rhythmic base for our
study of salsa. If you have a MIDI keyboard or a sequencer, record that complete salsa
pattern, in key 3&2 and another in key 2&3:

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The shell is played on metallic percussion: cowbell, cymbals, rim of timpani.

Accented notes are played with the right and soft notes with the left.
 Bongos and Bell

• Bongos

• Bell

The bell is a large cowbell that the bongo player plays.

Battery
single battery
 Congas alone

Tumbao

• The tumbao is a repetitive bass figure that goes with the accents of the tumbas and

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the bass drum.
 Guaje
The Guaje is a repetitive figure on the piano that marks the setbacks or syncopations
well.

Beat 1, beat 2 and then all the backbeats for two measures.

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Practice this Aire de Guaracha many times until you master it.
Play it on all 7th and minor 7th chords.
The role of the pianist in salsa is to inject flavor and "feeling" into the drummers and percussionists.
Gm 7

The terms guaje , tumbao or montuno are often confused, but their real meaning is guaje the
figure of the piano, tumbao the figure of the bass, and montuno the set of guaje and tumbao .
 Montuno I V7 V7 I
The guaje on the right and the tumbao on the left make up the montuno.
Practice these montunos in all keys:

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