I’m so happy to find such an authentic tutorial of the salsa pattern. I hear it all the time in music but never really understood how it works. So thank you, now I can play the real thing on the piano!
I watched this video 2 years ago a gave up my dream of learning salsa science after watching it. But in may 2017 I watched it again and got it, very nice video.
I'm glad to hear you haven't given up! Yes sometimes we need to let things sit and process in our brains for a while ... and then when we revisit them they seem easier than they did the first time. Great news. Enjoy!!
musically you sound like a native latina...you got the touch... keep it up we can use role models for our young people who want to follow the traditions of our people.
Thank you Vanessa ! I like your talent to teach us what you like. I'm pianist too (42 year's old), and enthousiastic visiting all your videos very soon. Big kisses from Brittany, France - Romy
Hi Romy, thanks so much for your comment. It's wonderful to see all kinds of different people of different ages from different countries learning and enjoying Latin music :) Have fun!! Beijos do Brasil
I loved your teaching... I saw many others, but I stuck myself onto your pedagogy as you managed to put difficult concepts into simple logical demonstrations!
Hola y muchas gracias por sus comentários. Soy canadiense y vivo en Brasil, entonces mi español no es muy bueno ahora ... pero de verdad, mis videos son principalmente para explicar a gente de paises del norte (USA, Inglaterra etc) que no crecieron con la música latina ... pero estoy contenta de saber que gente latina también piensan que mis videos son útiles! abrazo
Im a salsa addict... This tutorial is just pushing me to play some montuno on my piano (obviously I need to learn first). You really seems to feel music on your soul, keep on it!
I am learning and applying some of them to my 5-string and 6-string bass guitars (not just playing 1 5 8 tumbao on the "and of 2 & 4"). So much fun ... Thanks for this!
@@vrodriguesmusic Of course! I interviewed him as well. I used to be the Assistant Manager for "Bassics" magazine and a contributing writer for "Bass Player." Additionally, I was the Producer/Host/Engineer of "The Global Beat" podcast for "Global Rhythm" magazine (and wrote for several others including "Downbeat," "Modern Drummer," "Jazziz," many other publications and several websites such as abstractlogix.com.) Also interviewed Rebecca Mauleon, Hiromi, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and numerous others.
@@robertkaye5434 Wow that's fantastic!!! Please feel free to reply with URLs to any of your interviews here that are available online, I'm sure a lot of people seeing this would love to read them.
Hi Vanessa - a wonderful NYC musician found your tutorial and sent it to me. I am recommending it to other musicians, too. We love the clarity of your explanations; plus, your time is amazing, girl!!
Outstanding - thanks! Great teaching style, perfect pace, helpful addition of the clave in the corner - just perfect. Cant wait to work on this and to learn more.
:) I'm so glad you found it helpful. Yes, the rhythm is absolutely the most important aspect of this style, followed by the melodic phrases. It's wonderful music! Enjoy! cheers
I'm just a guitar player here that's trying to improve my piano playing skills and you're an awesome teacher! I actually used this video in a guitar class that I was teaching last night to explain about Rhythm placement and how it's really important to be consistent to sound right in various genres. Thanks!
excellent, vanessa I liked how you explained everything in detail, I think for that nesecitamos learn, your tutorials is a good alternative to start music lessons .. go ahead
Young lady you are awesome on that piano. You seem to know your stuff as far as salsa rhythm goes. You can be a great inspiration to the new upcoming salseros salsros. God bless you.
i agree with pablo - vanessa you have an infectious way about you - slightly like a learned professor and yet so much passion bubbling through too. very clear also - thanks
Thank you so much! I saw this about maybe 4 years ago. and enjoyed it then. Glad I found it again so I can learn how to put that "ritmo" tumbao in my fingers.
Ok, so I've just discovered Vanessa Rodriguez and I'm already hooked. This is exactly the kind of straightforward, basic instruction any piano student can use to learn the correct way.Your'e awesome Vanessa!!
Si ya lo he buscado pero no lo he conseguido, quizas no he buscado en los sitios correctos. Lo que pasa es que tu forma de tocar me llamó porque tiene mucho corazón y eso le da un tumbao excepcional. Espero que coseches muchos éxitos en la musica. Saludos. Sinceramente Luis
Thanks Vanessa, I'm a bass player that is starting to learn some piano and play a lot of Latin bass. Always wanted to learn montuno's on piano. Thanks for great instruction.
Thank you for explaining this rhythmic structure. The counterpoint between the comp and the 2-3 clave is so subtle yet so complex. You do a wonderful job showing that in the vid with the Clave insert - Thanks again
Thanks so much for your feedback, I'm very happy to know you've found it helpful. Yes, clave is really the most important aspect of the montuno/tumbao rhythm.
Thanks so much! Playing and dancing are very much related, it is so important to really feel the rhythm of this music inside your core, whether you are playing or dancing ... I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Vanessa Thank you for posting this...I play country/rockabilly piano....However all my life I have been hearing this cuban rhythm from movies to Ricky Ricardo- Lucy TV shows and have always wondered what it was....Thanks to TH-cam you have answered the basic compelling questions that have bugging me for 50 years.....
+Harold Price I love stories like that. TH-cam (amongst other sites and apps - Shazam comes to mind as well) has brought many musical revelations to many people. I'm happy to have helped. Cheers!
The drumming is good but it's a process like many things in life. I wanted to tell you that I love the organ trio video's. You guys are great! You are fun to watch! Looks like you're having a lot of fun! Best to you!
Besides being adorable and cute Vanessa, your video is informative and helpful. Montuno is one of my favorite rhythms for piano. I play drums and I love to solo over this rhythm. Thanks.
that's a great vid :) i dance salsa and also dance&play other generes... that's the first time i try to play the montuno with my fingers rather than my feet ;) and u've been very helpful!
This is such a great introduction to playing salsa piano! I've been playing piano all my life and always wanted to learn salsa but only just started trying to learn it now. This video was really easy to follow without being too slow like many other videos. Thank you!! :)
Hahaha!! Yes well. I actually put an ebook out as well, also with the aim of being as agony-free as possible. In any case, I'm very happy you found this video helpful. Cheers
Thank you vanessa. That would help me to understand some concepts that I misunderstood. I'm not a piano player but I definitely would like learn how to play. It just that. Coming from Cuba I have been surrounded by a lot of musicians never ever heard such title. However. Tumbaos. Is very well known. When it come to piano players. Here in united States it's different. It's like same thing different names or techniques. To summarize thank you. A fan of your talent.
As a guitar player we've always wanted to know the 'secret of the clave', how to really listen to the technique and structure and then play rhythms along with it. Though I can get around the keyboard very little, but enough to form the chords, hearing and learning the progressions is a very valuable learning experience and inspires me to practice more. Thanks a lot Vanessa~!
Hi Vanessa - It took awhile but your instruction helped me learn enough to arrange and record a praise and worship song by Paul Baloche called Praise Adonai. It looks like I will get a chance to perform it next week - the piano, bass, drum set, percussion and horn parts are recorded (yeah Roland!) - I will sing and play a guitar lead over it - any way thanks again for your instruction - it was clear enough to help a novice of the piano get a satisfactory recording done. Craig
Gracias La Senorita Rodrigues. You are lovely and kind enough to reply to the question marks in my head :) I will listen to the recording. I happen to have this title Chan Chan by La Familia Valera Miranda but seems like no piano. Not sure if the string played is the Tres, but yes, there is the 2-3 clave played outright. I am actually from the island-city-state of Singapore. I hope to be in Rio for next year's World Cup. Thank you again.
Excellent, tutorial sessions Vanessa Rodrigues my skill's are most definitely going to improve. Aim totally grateful and thankful as well. Most of all (El talento que tienes, proviene de un regalo de Dios en el cielo.)
Thanks so much! You'll get there … get some basic technique happening, but remember the most important thing here is not chops, it's the correct rhythm … it won't take you as long as you think. Have fun :)
Holy smokes that part at 2:58 is really challenging for me to learn. I literally ripped your video to my PC & placed it on my video compositor and looped that part over and over like 20 times on my portable yamaha and I'm frying my brain trying to get the fingering coordinated.
Hi there, thanks for your comment! This tumbao at 2:58 is very similar to the break in the song Mi Tierra, which I also did a video about: th-cam.com/video/JybMBBQW_Tk/w-d-xo.html
You are wonderful! I love this video, your explanations are superb, you really have an understanding of these rhythms/chords. Thanks for this, I've learned a bunch!
Mil gracia Vanessa la verdad es muy didáctico y de mucho contenido el video...que toca por favor del 4:02 al 4:10.. me refiero a la progresión! es decir las notas que utiliza por favor y mil gracias.
AH merci de répondre en Français :) je comptais en 4 noires comme vous et j'ai vu que les Cubains écrivent la clave en 2 /2 2 blanches du coup on compte 1 et 2 et pour une clave complète, juste sur la pulsation, c'est plus posé (et plus juste pour la phrase musicale je crois) Ca s'entend beaucoup dans la Timba, et beaucoup moins dans le mambo. Pour moi ça m'a aidé a calmer ma façon de phraser (et de danser !) mais je débute plus ou moins ! Vos explications sont très bonnes, merci !
Thanks for the feedback, and for the suggestion ... I plan to do a video explaining this in more detail, but the main reason why the first one is a bit off and the second one is more right is that in every 2 bar phrase there's a 2-side bar and a 3-side bar (as in the 2 & 3 side of the clave), and the phrasing of the 3-side should be anticipated by 1 eighth note and not landing on beat 1. (I hope that makes sense)
Latin rhythms are definitely challenging for those of us who did not grow up with them, but if you really get into it, it'll gradually become easier. TH-cam won't let me post the link directly here, but my Salsa Tutorial #4 is all about coordinating the 2 hands; I attempted to break it down and present this tricky rhythmic coordination in a way that's easy to understand ... (look for it in my list of videos). And thank you for your video, I'll check it out as soon as I get a chance. Thanks!!
Hi Steve, thanks for your message! Very close ... it is indeed an arpeggio, but it's actually going up rather than down ... it might sound like it's descending because of the top C in the pinky, but the octave is doubled in the pinky and thumb, and the melody of the arpeggio goes up from the thumb playing the bottom C, up through Eb, G, then the top C (even though the Cs are always played by the thumb and pinky together) ... hope that helps! cheers
Your explanations, examples, the way you use the technology, and your joyful presence make this is a great lesson. You are a gifted teacher.
I’m so happy to find such an authentic tutorial of the salsa pattern. I hear it all the time in music but never really understood how it works. So thank you, now I can play the real thing on the piano!
Wonderful! I'm so glad to hear you found it so useful. That's why I do this :) Cheers
This is by far the best tutorial for keyboards ever. Period.
Wow, thanks so much, I'm so glad it was so helpful for you.
Vanessa - You are a wonderful teacher! Your Joy of Music is so inspiring. You do not look like the MONSTER you are on the Hammond ! Thank-you.
11 Years later you helped me a lot! Thank you mrs. Rodrigues
Wonderful, I'm so glad you found this helpful. Cheers!
Vanessa, you're awesome! I'm a retired Jazz and Salsa pianist. You do an outstanding job breaking it down. Le deseo mucho exito.
I watched this video 2 years ago a gave up my dream of learning salsa science after watching it. But in may 2017 I watched it again and got it, very nice video.
I'm glad to hear you haven't given up! Yes sometimes we need to let things sit and process in our brains for a while ... and then when we revisit them they seem easier than they did the first time. Great news. Enjoy!!
Vanessa, great teaching and really clear explanations. You're a natural teacher.
Thanks, Vanessa! You've helped yet another piano player make a break-through into Latin music!
Really glad to hear it :) cheers!
There is nothing more beautiful than a young lady playing a musical instrument and smiling at the same time, thanks a lot, you had made my day !!!
Thank you :)
musically you sound like a native latina...you got the touch... keep it up we can use role models for our young people who want to follow the traditions of our people.
Thank you Vanessa ! I like your talent to teach us what you like. I'm pianist too (42 year's old), and enthousiastic visiting all your videos very soon. Big kisses from Brittany, France - Romy
Hi Romy, thanks so much for your comment. It's wonderful to see all kinds of different people of different ages from different countries learning and enjoying Latin music :) Have fun!! Beijos do Brasil
I loved your teaching... I saw many others, but I stuck myself onto your pedagogy
as you managed to put difficult concepts into simple logical demonstrations!
Hola y muchas gracias por sus comentários. Soy canadiense y vivo en Brasil, entonces mi español no es muy bueno ahora ... pero de verdad, mis videos son principalmente para explicar a gente de paises del norte (USA, Inglaterra etc) que no crecieron con la música latina ... pero estoy contenta de saber que gente latina también piensan que mis videos son útiles!
abrazo
Im a salsa addict... This tutorial is just pushing me to play some montuno on my piano (obviously I need to learn first). You really seems to feel music on your soul, keep on it!
I am learning and applying some of them to my 5-string and 6-string bass guitars (not just playing 1 5 8 tumbao on the "and of 2 & 4"). So much fun ... Thanks for this!
Hi Robert! How wonderful, I'm really happy to hear this! Have you ever checked out bassist Oscar Stagnaro?
@@vrodriguesmusic Of course! I interviewed him as well. I used to be the Assistant Manager for "Bassics" magazine and a contributing writer for "Bass Player." Additionally, I was the Producer/Host/Engineer of "The Global Beat" podcast for "Global Rhythm" magazine (and wrote for several others including "Downbeat," "Modern Drummer," "Jazziz," many other publications and several websites such as abstractlogix.com.) Also interviewed Rebecca Mauleon, Hiromi, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and numerous others.
@@robertkaye5434 Wow that's fantastic!!! Please feel free to reply with URLs to any of your interviews here that are available online, I'm sure a lot of people seeing this would love to read them.
(myself included)
Hi Vanessa - a wonderful NYC musician found your tutorial and sent it to me. I am recommending it to other musicians, too. We love the clarity of your explanations; plus, your time is amazing, girl!!
Outstanding - thanks! Great teaching style, perfect pace, helpful addition of the clave in the corner - just perfect. Cant wait to work on this and to learn more.
Wonderfully instructional, muchas gracias Vanessa
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
This is the first salsa-based piano lesson that made sense to me - I think it is because you started with the explanation of the timing. Thank you!!
:) I'm so glad you found it helpful. Yes, the rhythm is absolutely the most important aspect of this style, followed by the melodic phrases. It's wonderful music! Enjoy! cheers
I'm just a guitar player here that's trying to improve my piano playing skills and you're an awesome teacher! I actually used this video in a guitar class that I was teaching last night to explain about Rhythm placement and how it's really important to be consistent to sound right in various genres. Thanks!
Wonderful! So glad to hear that, thanks for sharing.
excellent, vanessa I liked how you explained everything in detail, I think for that nesecitamos learn, your tutorials is a good alternative to start music lessons .. go ahead
Very Clear. No confusion! (I like what you said about not getting yelled at by the Cuban guys! Nothing like a scowling Cubano!)
Young lady you are awesome on that piano. You seem to know your stuff as far as salsa rhythm goes. You can be a great inspiration to the new upcoming salseros salsros. God bless you.
Thank you so much for your kind words, much appreciated. All the best
i agree with pablo - vanessa you have an infectious way about you - slightly like a learned professor and yet so much passion bubbling through too. very clear also - thanks
will c Thank you very much, I really appreciate your comment, and I'm happy to know that you find my lesson enjoyable and helpful. Cheers!
Thank you so much! I saw this about maybe 4 years ago. and enjoyed it then. Glad I found it again so I can learn how to put that "ritmo" tumbao in my fingers.
Hi Richie, thanks for your comment, and for finding this video again, I'm glad it's useful for you :)
Ok, so I've just discovered Vanessa Rodriguez and I'm already hooked. This is exactly the kind of straightforward, basic instruction any piano student can use to learn the correct way.Your'e awesome Vanessa!!
Thanks so much!! I'm really glad to hear my teaching style works for you. Enjoy!!
I love this lesson. I’ve returned to this video many times.
Wonderful, I'm so glad you find it helpful!
@@vrodriguesmusic Wow! Thank you ☺️☺️
Si ya lo he buscado pero no lo he conseguido, quizas no he buscado en los sitios correctos. Lo que pasa es que tu forma de tocar me llamó porque tiene mucho corazón y eso le da un tumbao excepcional. Espero que coseches muchos éxitos en la musica. Saludos.
Sinceramente Luis
Me gusta, lo explicas muy bien. Voy a aprender contigo. Saludos desde Catalunya-España.
Very Good... You show it in a simple way for the beginers. Thanks so much...
You're very welcome and thank you for your comment, I'm glad you found it useful
thanks for sharing Vanessa I am a long time pianist just getting into Latin so this is very helpful!
Glad to hear it! Best wishes to you with your new musical project.
Thanks Vanessa, I'm a bass player that is starting to learn some piano and play a lot of Latin bass. Always wanted to learn montuno's on piano. Thanks for great instruction.
Awesome piano player Vanessa, I allways Love playing salsa with my Keyboard.
Thank you for explaining this rhythmic structure. The counterpoint between the comp and the 2-3 clave is so subtle yet so complex. You do a wonderful job showing that in the vid with the Clave insert - Thanks again
Thanks so much for your feedback, I'm very happy to know you've found it helpful. Yes, clave is really the most important aspect of the montuno/tumbao rhythm.
Thanks so much! Playing and dancing are very much related, it is so important to really feel the rhythm of this music inside your core, whether you are playing or dancing ... I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Gracias Vanesa. Tienes buena pedagogía eh visto varios vídeos pero pocos se le entiende.
Muchísima gracias, me alegro mucho que fue útil para tí. Un abrazo
Vanessa Thank you for posting this...I play country/rockabilly piano....However all my life I have been hearing this cuban rhythm from movies to Ricky Ricardo- Lucy TV shows and have always wondered what it was....Thanks to TH-cam you have answered the basic compelling questions that have bugging me for 50 years.....
+Harold Price I love stories like that. TH-cam (amongst other sites and apps - Shazam comes to mind as well) has brought many musical revelations to many people. I'm happy to have helped. Cheers!
I love your simplicity, you explain very well. thanks for the video.
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺CUBAN MUSIC FOREVER ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
That smile of yours made my day, eres muy agradable! Very instructional tutorial, muchas gracias bonita!
Thank you very much
Olá! Obrigada por seu comentário!
Estou virando brasileira - rs (sou do Canada mas moro no Rio)
Este teclado é um Yamaha Clavinova.
hi Vanessa - hope all is well for you - well I stopped playing the montuno for a long time it seems and now i am going to try to learn it again.
Hello Craig, thank you for your comment. All the best in your project to take up playing montunos again, I hope you find my tutorials helpful. Cheers!
God blessing you! Congratulations Vanessa !!
+Alberto Tico Cardenas :) thank you
The drumming is good but it's a process like many things in life. I wanted to tell you that I love the organ trio video's. You guys are great! You are fun to watch! Looks like you're having a lot of fun! Best to you!
I really loved the Fsus to F7
Great help with the beat! Thanks Vanessa! xx
Well done
Thank you very much
Awosome Vannesa... thanks for this tutorial... Soy mexicano y me encanta la musica de tumbao!!
Muchísima gracias! Enjoy!!
Besides being adorable and cute Vanessa, your video is informative and helpful. Montuno is one of my favorite rhythms for piano. I play drums and I love to solo over this rhythm. Thanks.
that's a great vid :) i dance salsa and also dance&play other generes... that's the first time i try to play the montuno with my fingers rather than my feet ;) and u've been very helpful!
This is such a great introduction to playing salsa piano! I've been playing piano all my life and always wanted to learn salsa but only just started trying to learn it now. This video was really easy to follow without being too slow like many other videos. Thank you!! :)
Also awesome jam at the end :D
Thank you very much, so glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful!! Cheers!
Freekin' cool, awesome video, sure takes years of agony away from trying to learn that from a jazz piano textbook. Thank you !!
Hahaha!! Yes well. I actually put an ebook out as well, also with the aim of being as agony-free as possible. In any case, I'm very happy you found this video helpful. Cheers
Merci beaucoup pour ce partage.
I like the tutorial, and the vamp and solo at the end, nice right hand work and your timing and feel is impeccable.
Thank you very much :)
Absolutely fantastic video and what a great presentation!! Thanks so much!!
Thank you vanessa. That would help me to understand some concepts that I misunderstood. I'm not a piano player but I definitely would like learn how to play. It just that. Coming from Cuba I have been surrounded by a lot of musicians never ever heard such title. However. Tumbaos. Is very well known. When it come to piano players. Here in united States it's different. It's like same thing different names or techniques. To summarize thank you. A fan of your talent.
Que bien tocas el piano Vane. Felicidades
As a guitar player we've always wanted to know the 'secret of the clave', how to really listen to the technique and structure and then play rhythms along with it. Though I can get around the keyboard very little, but enough to form the chords, hearing and learning the progressions is a very valuable learning experience and inspires me to practice more. Thanks a lot Vanessa~!
+Spyder Logan You're very welcome, I'm glad you find the tutorial helpful :)
Hi Vanessa -
It took awhile but your instruction helped me learn enough to arrange and record a praise and worship song by Paul Baloche called Praise Adonai. It looks like I will get a chance to perform it next week - the piano, bass, drum set, percussion and horn parts are recorded (yeah Roland!) - I will sing and play a guitar lead over it - any way thanks again for your instruction - it was clear enough to help a novice of the piano get a satisfactory recording done.
Craig
Excellent! I'm very happy to hear this. Best wishes to you
WAOOOO!!! Vanessa, que buen tutorial, eres la mejor profesora de piano!!!
Thanks for posting this video. It helped me a lot. I've always wanted to try to play salsa rhythms on the piano!
+Allan K Great! I'm very glad you found it helpful
I always enjoy watching you.Ruben...... The Vibraphonic Man
Glad to know it :) cheers
Very well put together.Vibraphonic man
Qué bonito tutorial! gracias.
Muchas gracias, con mucho gusto.
Gracias La Senorita Rodrigues. You are lovely and kind enough to reply to the question marks in my head :)
I will listen to the recording. I happen to have this title Chan Chan by La Familia Valera Miranda but seems like no piano. Not sure if the string played is the Tres, but yes, there is the 2-3 clave played outright.
I am actually from the island-city-state of Singapore. I hope to be in Rio for next year's World Cup. Thank you again.
Excellent, tutorial sessions Vanessa Rodrigues my skill's are most definitely going to improve. Aim totally grateful and thankful as well. Most of all (El talento que tienes, proviene de un regalo de Dios en el cielo.)
Vanessa you're awesome, I love your video, but I can't learn from it yet because I'm an infant with the piano. Respect!
Thanks so much! You'll get there … get some basic technique happening, but remember the most important thing here is not chops, it's the correct rhythm … it won't take you as long as you think. Have fun :)
this is great
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great. Full of examples we need
Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful
Very good Vanessa you play fantastic....
Thank you! Cheers
Buenísimo el video! Aprendiendo "Sonero Mayor" de Willie Colón, y este tutorial me esta ayudando con el "montuneo" Gracias!
:) que bueno que mi video está auyudándote. Y Willie Colón es fantástico. Disfruta mucho!
very nice
Thank you!
Holy smokes that part at 2:58 is really challenging for me to learn.
I literally ripped your video to my PC & placed it on my video compositor and looped that part over and over like 20 times on my portable yamaha and I'm frying my brain trying to get the fingering coordinated.
Hi there, thanks for your comment! This tumbao at 2:58 is very similar to the break in the song Mi Tierra, which I also did a video about: th-cam.com/video/JybMBBQW_Tk/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, very nice tutorial! Like your feel!
Just excellent and beautiful
Thank you very much :)
Thanks so much! I love Salsa and I always wondered what that wonderful rhythm was called!
Love those syncopations. Good playing
+Jeffrey Middelveld cheers
Thank you for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Excelent , many congratulations.......good pace and swing. I am impressed the way you touch,
well beautiful
Thank you very much :)
Just awsome montuno video.
Thank you very much
Hi Vanessa....! Congrats.... Very nicely done....
Thank you very much
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
Id love to learn to play thé last thing you played. CAN you make a video on that ?. Thanks and merry Christmas
Hello and thanks so much for your message. That's a good idea :) Merry (belated) Christmas to you too, and Happy New Year!
You are wonderful! I love this video, your explanations are superb, you really have an understanding of these rhythms/chords. Thanks for this, I've learned a bunch!
Dom Ham Thanks so much for your comment, I'm so glad you find my videos helpful :)
Another great introduction. Thanks.
Vanessa, this is great! I finally found your channel.
Welcome! :)
Muy bueno! Nice one
Muchas gracias!
Wow!!!!I'm really impressed..your video is really helpful and clear!!!I really like your style..brava!!))
Mil gracia Vanessa la verdad es muy didáctico y de mucho contenido el video...que toca por favor del 4:02 al 4:10.. me refiero a la progresión! es decir las notas que utiliza por favor y mil gracias.
Luis Carlos jaramillo Hola Luis, es Do menor: C-B-Bb-A bajando en octavas, con Eb & G en el medio
Yeah we're having a ball, those guys are great fun to play with! Best to you too! VR
beautiful thank you i was looking exactly for this
+Alà Eddin Abugrara Great! I'm glad to hear it. Cheers!
AH merci de répondre en Français :) je comptais en 4 noires comme vous et j'ai vu que les Cubains écrivent la clave en 2 /2 2 blanches du coup on compte 1 et 2 et pour une clave complète, juste sur la pulsation, c'est plus posé (et plus juste pour la phrase musicale je crois) Ca s'entend beaucoup dans la Timba, et beaucoup moins dans le mambo. Pour moi ça m'a aidé a calmer ma façon de phraser (et de danser !) mais je débute plus ou moins ! Vos explications sont très bonnes, merci !
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Thanks for the feedback, and for the suggestion ... I plan to do a video explaining this in more detail, but the main reason why the first one is a bit off and the second one is more right is that in every 2 bar phrase there's a 2-side bar and a 3-side bar (as in the 2 & 3 side of the clave), and the phrasing of the 3-side should be anticipated by 1 eighth note and not landing on beat 1. (I hope that makes sense)
Vanessa Bravo!
Cheers!
A very nice video, thank you
Latin rhythms are definitely challenging for those of us who did not grow up with them, but if you really get into it, it'll gradually become easier.
TH-cam won't let me post the link directly here, but my Salsa Tutorial #4 is all about coordinating the 2 hands; I attempted to break it down and present this tricky rhythmic coordination in a way that's easy to understand ... (look for it in my list of videos). And thank you for your video, I'll check it out as soon as I get a chance.
Thanks!!
How beautiful!!! Me gusta como enseñas!!! Tratare de aprender asi como tocas! Oh y eres hermosa.
Muchas gracias :)
This has helped me so much! Thank you Vanessa!
Thank you very much for your comment, I'm glad you found this video helpful
Hi Steve, thanks for your message!
Very close ... it is indeed an arpeggio, but it's actually going up rather than down ... it might sound like it's descending because of the top C in the pinky, but the octave is doubled in the pinky and thumb, and the melody of the arpeggio goes up from the thumb playing the bottom C, up through Eb, G, then the top C (even though the Cs are always played by the thumb and pinky together) ... hope that helps!
cheers