Samba Salsa Roca

A New Style. A New Milestone. Yet the stories never came...

@the_piano_professor 's second round came with a few curveballs, with the original round theme being to use at least 3 instruments to score... a drum solo??

Nevermind. I'll take the alternate theme of Latin.

Thus began my research under these two topics: the Latin-Rock substyle, and the Samba beat. I found a band by the name of "Savor" whose album "Moviendote" rather conveniently gave me both in one nice package, while exploring traditional genres under the Latin umbrella. I decided to take a structured salsa dance approach while emphasizing call and response between the guitar and brass. On top of this, I sprinkled in 3 different samba beat combinations to keep things rhythmically interesting.

I will probably have points docked for the second half, which is more western dance/rock tuned to a samba beat. Also, I rather conveniently forgot that Latin music has an element of *jazz* in it. Blame my procrastination and me making 70% of this in under a week lol. Let's hope the judges give me style points in return, but who's keeping track? I'm way out in left field when it comes to Latin music.





Oh? I'm a quarter thousand in follower count? Cool. I'll get back to you on that on the 26th of May, fingers crossed I don't procrastinate again.