Learning the salsa beat is sooo very important. Salsa tool #4 will make a big difference in your dance timing. You should learn to distinguish the different instruments. You may want to save the following links to your favorites. The first one is the Salsa Beat Machine: http://www.salsabeatmachine.org/ This cute piece of internet software is perfect for your practice sessions. I give you the following preferred settings: Set beats to approximately 143. The instructor should be set to: 1,2,3...5,6,7. The Clave should be set to: "Son" (also known as 3-2 clave). The piano: I-IV-V-I. The bass shoud be set to: "Tumbao + 1-5-8-5-1" The master Key should be set at C#. These settings will give you a slow, standard musical pattern for dancing Salsa. In the meantime you may want to find a hot Salsa band like the one in Houston called: SonTumbao. Here you have a link to their website with a few music clips.... http://www.sontumbao.com/ ... and ... http://www.sontumbao.com/_assets/son_Tumbao_Amor.mp3
