Toelatingseisen Latin guitar

General requirements
Rhythmic, melodie and harmonie affinity with Latin music

Technical requirements

Major and minor scales over 2 octaves
Scale related arpeggios over triads and 7th-chords

Genre specific skills

Play the chords (and extensions) of a given bossa nova
Perform samba and baiäo patterns (pdf included)
Sing/clap Brazilian percussion rhythms (samba, partido alto, baiäo)
Perform Bolero, Guajira and Son Cubano patterns on guitar/tres
Play a tumbao in clave 3-2 and 2-3
Recognize and clap the clave in a given tune

Playing together
lf possible, you will play with your own band or use a backing track. The repertoire has to consist of one Afro-Cuban and one Brazilian piece. Some of the genres/rhythms mentioned above have to be presented. You will have to prepare three ensemble pieces of which two will be chosen by the committee.

lmprovisation
Play a single-line solo over at least one of the pieces from your repertoire.

Suggestions for repertoire

Dindi (T. Jobim)
Manha de Carnaval (L. Bonfa)
So danco Samba (V. de Moraes, T. Jobim) Dos Gardenias (lslina Carrillo)
El Paralftico (Trfo Matamoros)