Cascara on timbales Tutorial 

Michael I play drumset in a Latin Jazz group. Your videos have helped me more than any other resource. I want to say thank you. You are the real deal

I went through 24 hours of youtube searching of many instructional videos on this issue, and after seeing a bunch of latin american fine percussionists that asume everybody has LP blood like them, is funny but pretty useful that a european guy ( correct me if wrong ) finally gives me this incredibly well made tutorial ! As a famous mexican singer used to say : muy agradecido,muy agradecido y muy agradecido ! That´s thank you three times !!!

I love salsa music. My favorite is the timbales so my hubby bought me my own set. Your videos are very instructional. Easy to follow please keep doing them. Thank you so much

I am glad that this video is useful for you. And you're right I'm a european guy, although I was born on Aruba. Well, I have a lot of other video's on my channel and I hope they can help you too! Enjoy it!

Mucha gracias por este video , usted tiene una pedagogía muy buena para enseñar, somos muchos los que le agradecemos todas sus horas de trabajo para compartir sus conocimientos, que la salud siempre le acompañe.

Michael excelente en la forma en que enseñas la tecnica. Muchisimas gracias

Thank you for this and all your very helpful tutorials, Michael. I am a fan!

This is the good stuff. 🙌

Michael de Miranda, timbales can't be your favorite instrument, they're MY favorite instrument...... :) Anonymous enough around this medium so I can tell a story or two about timbales...... at a Santana show in late 80's, at Merriweather Post Pavilion outside Baltimore (allegedly a favorite venue of Carlos') Orestes Vilato was timbalero. During "Toussaint L'ouverture" the congas and timbales were SCORCHING. Orestes' solo begins and it became a psychotropic paranormal experience...... like a dam burst, tears streaming. It was how perfectly locked in together the bass, congas, and timbales, the UNITY just took total control :) My band of 12 years was blessed with the membership of Gali Sanchez, a Santana percussionist of many years....... he unfortunately was stricken by cancer. A benefit was held to assist him with medical costs, etc. drummer Walfredo Reyes, Jr. and singer Alex Ligertwood came to the show in Annapolis, MD, we were the headline band. With Alex threatening to untune my guitar when I wasn't looking :), in "Long Train Running" I looked at Walfredo, he sets the timbales on fire for a spectacular solo..... I GOTTA put my shades on because Walfredo's timbale solo was tearing at my HEART like a Hammond player did a few times. I've always been amazed at the voice of timbales and the effect. They really are unique in even having a voice and with such unique impact. The first time I (Sicilian/Swedish heritage) went to an all-black church it was one of the most intense spiritual experiences ever, I needed a beach towel to manage the tears of joy. SAME as what Orestes did, SAME as what Walfredo did Then on a gig with a different timbalero....... we were doing "Jingo", I think...... this cat's timbale solo was so full of passion I SWEAR he had levitated :) I looked over and both feet were off the floor :) I was laughing so hard I had to think of baseball to get back to a coherent state....... And I type with HOWLING high pitch in my ears 10 years later...... I was guitarist/leader...... on some timbale solos I'd crouch down in front of and below timbale heads, totally absorbed and immersed...... like a retinal burn from looking at sun, but never recovered, my hearing was SHOT for a couple days. Same with Santana show..... I THINK I'd read that of all bands, Santana was the loudest by far. With Jeff Beck in circuit that's a tough record to beat :) But yes, Santana shows left me ringin' a few days. And still can't get enough timbales......

Grande!. Mil gracias por tus videos.

Is always good to see your tutorials as you explain thoroughly for beginners like me can understand

Muy bueno, la mejor explicacion in RU-vid. Gracias. Saludos de Brazil! CB

timbales is my main instrument as well! cant get enough of it

Muy buena explicacon..Gracias Mchael!

Gracias Maestro por su ayuda, un abrazo.

Hey this was great thank you so much!

Muchas gracias! Saludos desde Hollanda!

Excellent video! I can finally played. Thanks for a great explanation

Thank you! Saludos desde Rotterdam!

muy buen maestro saludos desde australia!

I do enjoy it. it is very pedagogical and to the point. Thank you for sharing :)

Thanks man. Hopfully I get it now to the drumset. I love latinstuff. For Rockdrummers not easy to catch I guess. Imitating is possible for me by feel. To play it exactly and correkt is tuff for me.

Tengo buenas experiencias con bronze. El sonido se mezcla bien con la banda, saludos.

Als je de clave omdraait (3/2) dan heeft dat gevolgen voor alle andere instrumenten. Alles moet dan in de dynamiek van de 3/2 clave zijn, dus ook de cascara. Het 3 gedeelte van de clave geeft vaart aan een ritme en het 2 gedeelte is meer statisch. Ik hoop dat ik je vraag goed beantwoord heb.

In which part do you have the problem with the left hand? The part on the side of the timbal or on the skin? Perhaps I'll make a video about plena too, but the first 2 video's will still be about bomba. Of course different styles like cuembé, yubá and hollandes ect. Thank you for your compliment!!

@MARASALVATRUCHA199 We can shake hands! I love playing timbales!

I am not a musician and not good at reading music. I study the music so that I can dance salsa better. It would be useful to people like myself for you to also describe the rhythm how a dancer would understand it in an 8-count. i.e. &1 2 3& &5 6& & &1 2 3& Thanks!

Excelent

good lesson. i seem to get stuck on the left hand snd frequenly go off. any suggestions. I also checked out your prviouly released videos on the bomba and the abierto one. I assume that in your next two you'll probably address the plena which a lot of times is cofused with bomba. again i want to copmplament you on the excellent lessons and history you give with your rhythms............Rico

Maestro quiero comprar unos timbales, que me recomienda de steel o bronze, saludos.

master plus

Is there a normal step when to use which sound?

Blijft die verandering in dynamiek hetzelfde als je een cascara over een 3-2 clave speelt?

quite a nice video. but there is one thing missing: the notes. please publish them

Una pregunta, entonces sería en clave 2/3: ta ta tata tata, tata ta ta ta? Y 3/2 pa papam pa pa, pa pa papam papam