Hey Everyone,
Thanks for the responses.
I am going to go check out a KORG KDM-2 today. I might buy a cow bell too!!
Hopefully they will have one out of the box that i can play with.
I used to teach a "salsa dancing" when i was in college, so this weekend i did some searching and i found several cd's that are counting CDs including one that has 28 minutes of strictly basic tumbau and 2/3 clave that i use to practice.
I am really starting to feel it more so on the 2 side of the clave, but keeping a steady pulse and timing is still admittedly extremely hard right now. The CD is really cool because it has like 50 tracks and it plays one instrument (e.g cowbell, congas, different tumbaus, guidos, etc..) on one track and directly afterward it plays the same track with clave and there is a person counting.
I learned on another thread to think of heel toe more accurately as base fingers, so thats what i worked on this weekend. During cha cha it was easy, but during during faster salsa i keep going back to my old way.
I am trying to work my leg independent of my hands to play clave, BUT i am nowhere near close to accomplishing this. I don't even see light at the end of the tunnel
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