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Beats - Pattern - Rhythm - Music Styles (by Sonic Sirius 2016)

A Guide for Drumcomputer & Sequencer (Free - 512 MB)Content- 47 Music Styles with BPM Information (some Musical Styles Instrumentation)- 192 Pattern Templates (self-created) Idea and Concept by Sonic Sirius- 192 Piano Roll Images (from Presonus - Studio One)- 192 Sound Examples - Short (*.WAV - 24 Bit) - A blank Template for print out (Din A4)

47 Music Styles with BPM (Tempo)
• Rock - Pop • Funk - Disco • Latin Rock • Reggae • Blues - Rock • Boogie
• Bossa • House • Drum ' n ' Bass • Techno • Hip Hop • Samba • Salsa • Ska
• 8Beat • Electropop • Soul • Country • R & B Dance • Trance • Garage • Shuffle
• Tango • Funk • Ballad • Blue Grass • Twist • Charleston • Foxtrot • Cha Cha Cha
• Merengue • Rhumba • Swing • Fusion • 16Beat • Punk • Polka • Latin Pop • Waltz
• Paso Doble • Mambo • Beguine • Musette • Bachata • Heavy Rock • Intro • Ending • March

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The Clave is the singularly most important part about Latin, Cuban and Brazilian music to understand. Knowing the 2:3 and 3:2 Clave and which one is right is important.
It is important to know the piano and bass patterns that go with the various Latin styles as well.
Perhaps getting your ears used to hearing them before diving in might work better as a first step? Just a suggestion.


There are a lot of books out there. A good one is 101 Montunos by Rebecca Mauleon-Santana but you have to read music to use it to its full potential. Victor Lopez has some good things as well. True Cuban Bass is also a good book.
It's a language of music all of its own.

If you simply want to hear what they sound like, the EZDrummer libraries Latin-Cuban Drums, Latin-Cuban percussion play most of the patterns all correctly with the right clave. They also include the Songo, Mozambique, Caballo, Guaganco, Tumbao, 6/8, 6/8 Malangos, Samba, Bossa, ChaCha, Rhumba, Salsa, Mambo, and most patterns you may wish to play with. They also load into Superior drummer. PLUS you can drag the MIDI patterns into your DAW.

 

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It's good to listen to the various approaches too.
As a small example, use YouTube and check out a few like:
Puerto-Rican - Tito Puente, Any of the Escovedo family
Cuban - Pedro Martinez, Chano Pozo, Luis Conte
Brazilian - Hermeto Pascal, Flora Purim, Airto Moreia

The Latin Real Book also has a lot of Latin tunes central to South America, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

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Last edited: May 13, 2025