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Percussion: Congas
Rhythm: Piano
Rhythm: Bass
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Percussion: Timbales
Melodics: Violin
Percussion: Hand
Rhythm: Guitar / Tres
Percussion: Bongó
 

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Salsa: Basic Steps

Concepts And Definitions
About The Video Clips
Using The Video Clips
Side-To-Side
Back Basic
Turning Basic
Latin Basic
Cross Basic
Cucaracha
Single Right Turn (SRT)
Better Salsa FAQs
Our Salsa Demonstrators
More Practices
Learning Tracks: Salsa

Salsa: Ear Training

About The Tutorials
Course Design
Nomenclature
Tutorial Programme
 


Stage I: Determining the Beats of a Phrase
 
Conga: Cueing the start of the dance cycle
Conga: Using the Slap stroke accent
Conga: The Percussionist Dancer
Clave: Son clave & the clave rhythm stream
Clave: Dancing a percussive counterpoint
 
Stage II: Clave as Universal Constant

Conga (reprise): Indicating clave orientation
Bass: Dancing to bass tumbaos
Piano: Common montuno patterns
Bongó bell, Maracas and Güiro: Pulse-based rhythms
Pailas a.k.a. Timbales: Dancing with the sinners
 
Stage III: More about Salsa's Rhythms

Clave: Interpreting rumba clave
Congas: More salsa tumbaos

Index of Tracks
Our Sound Designers 

The Complete Merengue Tutorials

About The Video Clips
Course Design
Using The Tutorials
Tutorial Programme


Phase I: State of Independence
Lower Body Action
Changing Phase
Taking Hold
A Basic Step
Phase II: Dance Elements
HALO™ Turns for Followers
HALO™ Turns for Leads
Neutral Turns for Leads
Simple Hand Changes
Orbits™ (Circular Partnership Movement)
Phase III: Combination Building
Simple Combinations
Combination Analysis
Subroutine Libraries
Phase IV: Transformations
see Rhythm Sense (below)


Learning Tracks: Merengue
Our Merengue Demonstrators

The Body-Skills Collection

Isolation, Chest: Front-to-Back
Isolation, Chest: Side-to-Side
Movement, Chest: Circular
Isolation, Pelvis: Front-to-Back
Isolation, Pelvis: Side-to-Side
Movement, Pelvis: Circular
Movement: Whole-body Cascade
Movement: Tango Walk 

Rhythm Sense

A Break in Movement
Son Phrasing (Part 1): Son and Mambo
Son Phrasing (Part 2): Starting Son, and Clave
Son Phrasing (Part 3): Son Montuno
Zarabanda: A Context for Rhythmic Anticipation
Transformations: Merengue to Salsa
 

Exploding Myths
Salsa: The Music
Salsa: The Dance
A History of Salsa

Part 1: One Man's Word
Part 2: Turning Westward
Part 3: An African Movement
Part 4: Cuba
Part 5: Revolution
Part 6: Puerto Rico
Part 7: Borinquen NYC
Part 8: Who Owns Salsa?
Part 9: Salsa in the U.K.
Resources
About the Author

Merengue: The Music
Merengue: The Dance
A History of Merengue

Part 1: A Dance around the Caribbean
Part 2: It's Black and White
Part 3: Defensive Dancing
Part 4: Rafael Trujillo
Part 5: Coming of Age
Part 6: Merengue Moves Abroad
Part 7: Merengue in the U.K.
Resources
About the Author

Glossary: Rhythms & Styles (A–M)
Glossary: Rhythms & Styles (N–Z)
Glossary: Band Instrumentation
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