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Updated 16 December 1999

I've placed a Previous Lessons archive here. Enjoy!	Interview with my good friend Dave Lombardo is here!
Video and Audio Lessons Please email me for info about this and audio lessons by cassette.	Private Lessons I live in Southern California and am very happy to be able to teach here at my home studio. My students and I are a nice family, the atmosphere's cool, and we play and learn together. See you here if possible!

 

Sounds for the Lesson

Real Audio Files here

MP3 files here

Whenever anyone asks me to define the word "salsa", I inevitably point them to a few choice albums. One is "Indestructible" by Ray Barretto (Fania Records, LPS 00456). If you really want an education in groove and swing with a "latin" perspective, this is the CD to get. It swings so hard and every song is a gem.

The percussion on this recording is especially tight and swingin'. I use this CD with most of my students. Some students want to learn about bell patterns or conga patterns. Well, this CD teaches that. With other students, I use these tracks as "living metronomes". Playing the Purdie Memphis Soul Stew groove along with the salsa tracks gives you a great perspective on time keeping. Try it and see!

For the next few lessons we'll examine a great solo by timbalero Little Ray Romero from the song Indestructible. I transcribed the solo on a jet, flying from Los Angeles to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Now, I'll be learning it and applying it to the drum set. Why don't you do the same? Hope you can see the manuscript OK!

Please take some time to check out the sound files I've posted here. Enjoy.

We'll start with the first 18 measures of the solo, because that's what fit on one page! I'll be posting the remainder of the solo over the next month. I hope you can see this all right. Please write me if you cannot and I'll re-scan and try to improve the image.

 

Thanks once again for visiting my lessons page, and for checking out the website. If I can be of any help to you, please drop me an email. And don't forget to check out the books, CDs, and videos available here. Thanks!

 

Previous Lessons

Choose a Lesson Memphis Stew! Memphis Stew.2! Power Grooves! Why You Drum! Uruguay Samba do Angola Brasil Lessons Dbl Bass Cowbell Latin Hand Patterns Latin Rudiments 5:2 Hand Exercise Changuito Melodic Cascara Funk Make It Funky Basic Brail Articles of Independence

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Memphis Soul Stew	Memphis Soul Stew.2	Power Grooves	Groovin' Independence	Basic Brasilian Rhythms	Double Bass Cowbell Lessons
Latin Hand Patterns	Latin Rudiments	5 against 2 Hand Patterns	Changuito Melodic Independence	Cascara Funk Lesson	FunkyTwist!
Make It Funky!	More Brasilian Lessons	Why You Drum!	Articles of Independence	Dave Lombardo Power Grooves lesson	Candombe

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