Announcing the addition of classes by Karl Perazzo to CongaMasterClass.com!
Michael and I are thrilled to let you know that we just posted 13 new videos of Latin Percussion master Karl Perazzo teaching bongo. You might know him best for his incredible timbale playing for Carlos Santana, and not for his bongo ability. But I'm sure you will agree that his approach to the instrument, both mental and physical, makes him one of the finest bongoceros around. Karl will take you step by step through all of the basic strokes, 3 different martillos and several golpes. In addition, he gives some great insights along the way into his mental concept towards the music. Each of these videos is a real gold mine to the careful viewer!
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Master percussionist Karl Perazzo has played some kind of drum or other since the age of 2 . At age 7 he played in a band that his mother and father formed, and from there he went on to play with Cal Tjader while only in the 6th grade. Born and raised in San Francisco's Mission District, he has played with the best in Pop, Jazz, Rock and Latin Music. The self-taught musician is currently playing with the Santana Band, and has recorded 3 albums with the guitar legend, one of which is a live album recorded in South America.
He has sat in with the greats of Latin Music, including Tito Puente, Machete, Ruben Blades and others amongst many others, and has recorded and played with Malo, Jorge Santana, Cal Tjader, Dizzy Gilespie, Andy Narrel, Ray Obiedo, Tom Coster, Pete and Coke Escovedo, Dennis Chambers, Sheila E., The Artist, Mariah Carey, Paquito D' Rivera, and is on the latest John Lee Hooker album. He also has also recorded with some of the top artists in both Japan and Italy.
Karl has also performed on an array of TV shows, such as American Bandstand, Soul Train, Solid Gold, Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, The Grammies, The American Music Awards, and was the first percussionist to be invited to sit in with The Arsenio Hall Show house band on more than one occasion, and to perform on his 100th show.
Aside from all this Perazzo still finds the time to record with numerous performers and now to begin a video series for CongaMasterClass.com. He strongly believes that the knowledge he has is not his to keep, but to be shared with people around the world!