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

Afro-Cuban Music

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