Edition: Paperback Book & CD Package

Description: 184 Pages

This book helps to overcome the various obstacles and difficulties drummers and multi-percussionists from the four corners of the earth have had to face in view of their lack of knowledge about Cuban rhythms: step by step, it offers in a very skillful and up-to-date manner a compilation of polyrhythmic transcriptions of pieces performed by most of the existing Cuban music ensembles featuring a percussion section. In doing so, it gives a novel and extraordinary kind of survey of our Cuban culture, a survey that could be compared to a Concise Atlas of Cuban Rhythms.

Ritmos de Cuba: Cuban Rhythms for Percussion and Drumset includes a CD containing 91 music examples illustrating all the scores and reductions presented in the book.

Contents: Preface * Introduction * Notation * "Introducción" Introductory Piece for Percussion and Drumset * Rhythms and Folkloric Chants for Percussion and Drumset * Rhythms and Chants of Yoruba Origin * Rhythms and Chants of Arará Origin * Rhythms and Chants of Congo Origin * Rhythms and Chants of Carabalí Origin * Folkloric Medley for Percussion and Drumset * Cuban Popular Musical Genres for Percussion and Dreumset * Transcriptions of Music Examples Performed by Variou Orchestras and Ensembles with Percussion and Drumset Sections * "Introducción" Percussion and Drumset * Flossara * and more.