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.

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 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. 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 predates the first Cuban recordings, and then proceeds to the danzon and son genres of the 1900-1940 period to look for early roots of the modern piano tumbao in the tres and violin parts. The volume concludes with an extensive study of the various types of tumbaos pioneered by Arsenio Rodriguez in the 1940s. A directory of other volumes can be found at http: //www.timba.com/piano

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 tumbaos. It begins with piano adaptations of tres guajeos from the seminal folkloric genre of changui, which predates the first Cuban recordings, and then proceeds to the danzon and son genres of the 1900-1940 period to look for early roots of the modern piano tumbao in the tres and violin parts. The volume concludes with an extensive study of the various types of tumbaos pioneered by Arsenio Rodriguez in the 1940s. Other volumes can be found at https: //www.createspace.com/3419799