Your stuff?

[royerin]

Great playing everyone!

Thanks for sharing....

[peter c]

Blake,

You're too kind.

I WISH that was my band! I
could not be in the same
room rehearsing with the
likes of them!

My part is overdubbed. Most
Latin bands do NOT have
drum accompaniment. I AM
in contact with the bass-
player, though.

The band is Conexion Latina.
That arrangement is very
old and from their UN POCO
LOCO release. These guys
are sushi chefs in Europe.

I was turned onto them by
the drumming great, Alex
Sanguinetti. He is a fab-
ulous drummer that I have
taken lessons from. He had
heard that I was coming up
with drum parts for some
Eddie Palmieri tunes...

www.thediametrixletter.com/CaribbeanWood6.mp3

...and thought that I would
find the horn lines more
challenging, though still
in the groove. Boy, was he
right! He's been a great
help to me over the last
year and a half - especially
psychologically. Like Billy,
he feels that drumming is
primarily a mental phenom.

Back to Conexion Latina,
Alex gets all the gigs, with
the individual players, not
as a collective.

I find that Latin Salsa, be-
cause of the absence of the
drum-kit is fertile ground
for players like me, who are
looking to better their comp-
limenting of a larger en-
semble. It's a lot of fun.

I'm glad that you like it.
Try that sample, which was
zipped. That's virgin. You
will have a great time with
it, I'm sure. Just remember
to stress the off-beat.

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[blake1]

Thanks Peter.
I enjoy your playing as well and respect you as one of the most interesting HOD members, since you seem to have a lot of experience under your belt. I'm listening to the salsajazz6 mp3 now. Is that a band you are currently playing with?
Man, they are tight.! Very uplifting music and must be really fun to play.

Best of luck!

btw: I added a couple of more drumistic mp3s to nourish the technique heads. [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img]

[blake1]

You know what Pete?
You should take these charts and make a cd/chart reading package. These are really great tunes to play and the reading would be really challenging to practice. Not too many bands play with this many nice kicks. I think this would fill a void in the chart reading/play along world. I always wanted to play this music, but it's difficult to get it together.

Cookin playing and music.
Yeah !!!

[peter c]

Blake,

It's easy to get to this
stuff and the reason is
that there are NO drum
tracks on most of it. I
am talking about 1000's
of Salsa recordings. They
are just waiting to be
arranged and played to.

If you want links to the
tunes that I have posted
so far, I'll be glad to
point you in that direct-
ion. The cd's are avail-
able for a song and dance.

This one is TOTALLY dif-
ferent and I sent it to
the composer. Some of you
might recognize it. By
the way, George liked it.

www.thediametrixletter.com/lena3.mp3

This was a couple of years
ago but a cool idea, I think:

www.thediametrixletter.com/petesymphony3.mp3

Let me know, Blake.

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 07, 2003 02:20 AM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

[peter c]

Blake,

'SalsaJazz' is from Conexion Latina's
"Un Poco Loco". Great stuff but only
a couple of candidates, though killer!

http://half.ebay.com/search/search.j...onexion+latina

The real candidates are "Mambo-Nights"
and "Un Poco Loco".

Most of the stuff you have heard from me
is from "Mambo Nights".

Don't forget Eddie Palmieri though.

http://half.ebay.com/search/search.j...eddie+palmieri

"Palmas" is real good. Lot of tunes.

www.thediametrixletter.com/palmas2.mp3

It has a low mix of the great Robbie
Ameen on it. No offense, Robbie!

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<font color="#a62a2a"><font size="1">[ November 09, 2003 12:55 AM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font></font>

Here's another Eddie, which is cool:

http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cg...1876&meta_id=2

www.thediametrixletter.com/covagarde1.mp3

I really had fun with that one.

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 09, 2003 01:02 AM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

[peter c]

And speaking of Billy Cobham and
play-alongs, one of the ultimates,
if not THE ultimate is his marve-
lous "Conundrum". Billy did these
just for us, drummers that are look-
to build up their large ensemble
chops, without the large ensembles.
It comes with all the charts etc.:

www.thediametrixletter.com/conundrumrevisited.mp3
www.thediametrixletter.com/stratus9.mp3

This is a must. The large ensemble
arrangements are very challenging.

Blake, you'd love it, I think.

Here's another CL file, zipped.
It does NOT have my drum track.

www.thediametrixletter.com/zapata.zip

Great groove on this one for you guys.

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 10, 2003 03:09 PM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

[blake1]

Thanks for hooking me up Peter. I'll be looking for those titles. I never thought of overdubbing over those non-drumset tracks.
Coool !
Blake

[peter c]

Blake,

The chances of my hooking up
with a band like that are VERY
remote. I'm totally out of the
music scene.

This is the next best thing. I
make sure to keep my mix down
and A PART OF the original pre-
sentation, as it would be if I
was in the studio, with the comp-
oser and arrangers. The idea is
to contribute to the work and not
take away.

In the end, we have an opportun-
ity, not only to do that but to
be influenced to do it in a dif-
ferent way than we may be used to.

The world of Latin is the world
of off-beat but it is arguable
that no "1" is implied more ef-
fectively, than in this genre.

As Billy once told me about some-
thing else, I will tell you:

"You have nothing to lose and
everything to gain."

On top of that, I know that you
will have lots of fun.

You can come back to arrangements
that you'd like to improve on...
There's so much you can do!

www.thediametrixletter.com/mambonightsolo.mp3

Today, I came back to this and
I wanted to add double-kicks
for the build-up at the end:

www.thediametrixletter.com/mambonights10.mp3

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 10, 2003 04:18 PM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

[peter c]

I re-did this one and this is
also from "Mambo Nights", Blake;

www.thediametrixletter.com/mamboalamintzer10.mp3

It 'kicks' you in the head, it's so tough!

I know you'd love to work to it.

Here's something from a while ago
but to give you more of a taste of
what's on "Conundrum":

www.thediametrixletter.com/eleuthera7.mp3

Again, you have to get this at
Amazon.com, as it's a book.

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