The Roots of Salsa - Level Up Your Musicality!
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Course Trailer
Introduction to the course
Table of Contents With Timestamps
1 | The Pillars Behind Cuban Music

The African Roots in Cuban Music
Afro-Cuban Music
European Roots
Follow-up learning material (~20 min)
2 | The Rumba Complex

Orientation to Rumba
Guaguancó - "Vacúnala!"
Yambú - "Que lindo el yambú"
Columbia - "The Dance Battle"
Follow-up learning material (~30 min)
3 | Son - "For the soul to rejoice"

Origins of "The Mother of Salsa"
Connections between dance & music
Follow-up learning material (~30 min)
4 | Salsa - Umbrellas, Sauces and "A Way of Making Music"?

The Cuban Seeds and the Birth of Salsa
Salsa as a "Way of making music"
Follow-up learning material (~30 min)
5 | Timba & Cuban popular dance music - "Somos cubanos!"

Cuba After the Revolution & Songo
Follow-up learning material 1 (~20 min)
The Birth of Timba
Follow-up learning material 2 (~30-40 min)
Here & now: MPBC in 2000s
Follow-up learning material 3 (~30 min)
6 | The Three Levels of Musicality

Foundations 1: How to follow and predict changes in all music?
Follow-up learning material 1 (~30 min)
Foundations 2: Phrasing in Cuban popular dance music
Follow-up learning material 2 (~20 min)
Level 1 - Connecting with the dynamics in music
Level 1 - Follow-up learning material (~25 min)
Level 2 - Utilizing Gears & Playing With Genres
Level 2 - Follow-up learning material (~35 min)
Level 3 / Part 1 - Bloques, Hits & Accents
Level 3 / Part 1 - Follow-up learning material (~40 min)
Level 3 / Part 2 - That Special Groove!
Level 3 / Part 2 - Follow-up learning material (~35 min)
End of Course

1 | The Pillars Behind Cuban Music

What is behind all Cuban (and most Latin American) popular dance music? What are the biggest contributors and ways of constructing music that help us understand everything that comes after?

4 Lessons