Michael S wrote:What about "Drumming With The Mambo King" by Tito Puente? I've only glanced through it and am not a timbalero but it seemed comprehensive.
It's quite good. the best feature is that it has several of Tito's songs on the CD and the arrangements in the book.
I just got "A Master's Approach to Timbales" by Changuito and Victor Rendon's "Art of Playing Timbales" but I haven't had time to thoroughly go through them.
The one thing in common all of the books have is a fair bit of space dedicated to drumset patterns or other instruments such as conga and bongos. Since these are really the only three "timbale" books in print/easily available, it's a shame since there are loads of latin percussion books (for drumset) and conga books.
That's why I apporach the Gajate video with some trepidation. How much of the 60 minutes is timbale and how much is bongo?
Edited By Norte on Mar. 26 2003 at 20:04