Advance Music

This book helps to overcome the various obstacles and difficulties drummers and multipercussionists from the four corners of the earth have had to face in view of their lack of knowledge about Cuban rhythms: Step by step, it offers - in a very skillful and up-to-date manner - a compilation of polyrhythmic transcriptions of pieces performed by most of the existing Cuban music ensembles featuring a percussion section. In doing so, it gives a novel and extraordinary kind of survey of our Cuban culture, a survey that could be compared to a "Concise Atlas of Cuban Rhythms".

Ritmos de Cuba - Cuban Rhythms for Percussion and Drumset includes a CD containing 91 music examples illustrating all the scores and reductions presented in the book. (Lino Arturo Neira Betancourt)

Autor:

Ruy Lopez is certainly one of the most experienced percussionists teaching in Havana today.

He was born in Mexico and came to Cuba in 1957. Later, he graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte. He has worked with numerous and well-known Cuban musicians and bands during the last 20 years, for instance with Pedro Luis Ferrer, Ramón Valle, Santiago Feliú und Ernán López - Nussa. He also joined them on their tours through Europe and Latin America. Apart from the artists already mentioned, he also performed with Gema y Pavel, José María Vitier, Bobby Carcasés, Roberto Fonseca, Felipe Cabrera und William Vivanco.

Ruy teaches at the music school "Amadeo Roldán" in Havana. The great deal of sensitivity with which he treats his students is remarkable.

His thorough knowledge of the different rhythms, claves and music genres make his classes an experience you won't forget. He is supported by the musicians of the group "Temperamento".