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)