BACKING TRACKS

Welcome to the Piano Salsa Backing Tracks “Live Time” practice program!

The BACKING TRACKS are rhythmic bases for bass and percussion accompaniments, which have been designed to help you develop your skills in both montunos and improvisation, with a total of 62 selected harmonic progressions classified in major and minor modes, you can practice in the 7 most common keys. There are 432 practice videos with harmonic guides to download in PDF and audio files in Mp3.

Remember that once you purchase the course, you will have access forever, with no limitations.

To get started:

– Start by choosing a key.

– Select one of the 62 available harmonic structures, ordered in order of difficulty from lowest to highest. From 1 to 47 you will find the minor mode and from 48 to 62 the major mode.

– Practice basic montuno patterns to familiarise yourself with the rhythmic structure and harmony.

 Practice example:

– Use the backing track experimenting with different voicings, inversion combinations and rhythmic patterns.

– Find a Montuno pattern from any of the levels and practice it on the 7 most used salsa tones.

– Study accompaniment chords for the left hand alone, developing campings with different rhythmic variations.

– You can practice in different tempos thanks to the speed change function in the video player, which you will find in the bottom right corner.

 Improvisation in Different Tones:

– Backing Tracks offer you the opportunity to practice improvisation in different harmonic contexts.

– Play, experiment, explore and develop your creativity by either using scales or creating melodic phrases to suit each harmonic change.

– Use the Backing Tracks as a practice tool to develop your solos and all the material from the improvisation courses.

Harmonic progressions used in Latin Jazz:

Some of the harmonic progressions such as number 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 46, 48, 52, 62, can serve as a base to develop an advanced language closer to Latin Jazz, due to their harmonic complexity and the use of progressions with 2 5 1.