Salsa & Latin Jazz Piano Joys!: 23 Original Piano Solos & Duets, Contrafacts, Arrangements & Improvisations, with Drills, Piano Patterns, and 30 Montunos

The Sheer Joy of Salsa & Latin Jazz Piano! A wide-ranging and multi-purpose collection, Latin-style!23 Original Piano Pieces and Arrangements that explore Mambo, Salsa, Calypso, Latin Jazz, Merengue, Guajira, Baqueteo, Bolero, Cha-cha-chá, Slow Rumba and Son, Modern Tango, Bossa Nova, Latin Pop and Latin Rock!With Drills to get you familiar with the fabulous groove of the “Tumbao” bass!The solo piano “Contrafacts” of Guantanamera, Matilda and Tequila will provide you with standalone pieces, very enjoyable as written, and will also allow you to successfully perform the originals!The written Improvisations on Cachito, Chan Chan, Jazz Samba, etc. will also give you valuable ideas for your own improvisations!Plus 30 Piano Montunos—most of them harmonized or contrapunctal—built on common chord changes, and very useful as fun technical exercises too! With a piece in the exciting Mambo Garner style of Erroll Garner!…and for the joy of your ensemble playing, five “One Piano, 4 Hands” Duets easily adaptable as “piano and keyboard” duets to be played with a full Latin band!Also including “Arranged Piano Accompaniments” for playing Poinciana, Smooth Operator, Moliendo Café, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Quizás, Quizás, Quizás, Historia de un Amor, etc. in a fresh and effective way!With stylistic notes to each piece!A wide-ranging book that will give you greater rhythmic knowledge, hands independence, much better chops, and above all… a lot of fun!Enjoy! Read more