The course offers an introduction to Cuban grooves and rhythms starting with the clave and cascara patterns, montuno patterns, and then exploring other popular Cuban styles such as Mambo, Cha-Cha-Cha, Guajira, and Changüí.
Here’s a link to the course page:
The PDF downloads have been added for most of the lessons and the remaining ones will be uploaded this coming week.
Elio Villafranca
Our Cuban piano teacher is Elio Villafranca - a talented Cuban pianist and educator.
Born in the Pinar del Río province of Cuba, Steinway Artist and Grammy Nominated pianist and composer Elio Villafranca was classically trained in percussion and composition at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba.
Here’s a link to Elio’s website if you’d like to learn more about Elio and his music:
Hi again. Sorry to bother. Just wondering if there is any news on when the performances will be up? Hoping to get working on it sooner than later. Thanks again.
Hey @luzioluna - I have just refreshed the videos above - I’m not sure what happened there.
The video editor is working on adding the notation right now. 2 of the performances are more improvisational than following a chord chart (La Mulata Rumbera and Con Poco Coco) and so we will try our best to map the demonstration to a notation graphic.
For the first 3 songs (All The Things You Are, Decidete Mi Amor, and The Peanut Vendor) - we have located chord charts that follow exactly or closely what is being demonstrated.
As soon as the videos are finished I will post an update here.
Apologies this slipped off my radar again. Thanks for reminding me.
Here they are with the notation included - I didn’t get a chance to create the lesson pages yet but you can watch them below with the speed controls (click the cog icon next to the volume control) and also the full screen option.
The performance of “La Mulata Rumbera” is very difficult to notate, but these 4 performances came out quite nicely, here they are:
