MARCELO GEORGE
Let's make it Salsa!
Introduction
Welcome to Let's make it Salsa! This project is for musicians, producers, and music lovers who want to explore Salsa music, create Salsa versions of other music styles, or blend it with different genres. Let's make it Salsa! is your gateway to understanding, learning, and mastering Salsa music production.
So the goal is not the creation of fusions, but the complete integration of other styles into Salsa.
My wish is to help you understand the rhythmic and melodic essence of Salsa and apply this knowledge creatively in your own music production.
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This work emphasizes Salsa as a musical genre has a great stylistic richness and is particularly suitable when it comes to integrating other musical styles within their own sphere. For adapting to other popular music styles while preserving its original form, diversity and recognition value an attempt is made to incorporate these other genres within the various styles of salsa.
Another goal of this methodological approach, is to design a set of strategies on how the adaptation to the Salsa genre can work.
Inspiration
During my extensive musical career, in the Latin American lineage and my multiple opportunities I have had to travel the world thanks to the music, I had the opportunity to explore multiple genres and their different interpretative dynamics, vocal strategies, melodic, rhythmic and harmonic characteristics, as well as vocal and mixing aspects, and the context of the different instrumental formats that are used in each musical genre; everything I have learned throughout my career, becomes the basis to make these adaptations. I want to show that non-Latin music and Latin music are linked. Historically, many genres show that they have the same musical roots coming from Africa. Therefore, it may be easy for any genre to lead naturally to different genres of Latin music, and certainly vice versa could also work in the same way.
