A Latin Beat (performance)
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Kay CharltonKay Charlton performs A Latin Beat on the trumpet
What's in the course
13 lessons (0h 40m) · 1 free
01. Welcome to Are You Ready
1:17
02. Here's A One Note Tune (performance)
3:19
03. Heres A One Note Tune (analysis)
Free lesson2:46
04. Play That Banghra Beat (performance)
2:32
05. How to play a D note on the trumpet
2:19
06. Play That Banghra Beat (analysis)
2:58
07. Woh Yeah (performance)
2:02
08. Woh Yeah (analysis)
5:09
09. Three Note Jam (performance)
3:58
10. Three Note Jam (analysis)
5:54
11. A Latin Beat (performance)
You are here2:32
12. A Latin Beat (analysis)
4:43
13. Congratulations on finishing the course!
0:40
Lesson transcript
Latin Beat Music Lesson
This song is called a Latin Beat, and it uses all three of our notes: C, D, and E. It's in a Latin American style, a sort of salsa style.
Introduction to the Song
- Listen to the piano playing that kind of Latin beat all the way through. That'll give you the style of the music.
- There are quite a few spoken parts in this song and also some body percussion. You can make up your own if you like.
Let's Begin
- Here we go.
- There's our pulse.
- A la Tim beat.
- A la Tim beat.
- Two more of those:
- A la Tim beat.
- One more.
Ready to play.
- A la Tim beat.
Shuffle and Move
- Shuffle, shuffle. You can move your feet.
- Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.
- Ready to play. Here we go.
Body Percussion
- You can tap your knees.
- This bit: Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
- Ready to play. Here we go.
Improvisation Section
- Make up your own rhythm.
- Tap out on your trumpet.
The Break
- This is the break.
- One, two, three.
Copy and Create
In this section, as usual, you can copy me or you can make up your own improvising.
- Here's some copybacks. Off you go.
- And here's the break. Off we go.
There you go.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Kay is a trumpet player, composer and teacher of brass and curriculum music, specialising in primary classroom teaching - KS2, First Access/WCET (whole-class ensemble teaching, where a class learns an instrument together) and teacher CPD (continuing professional development). She completed a Masters in Music Education - 'Teaching Musician' at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2018.
Kay plays trumpet with the Bollywood Brass Band, a 9-piece band of brass and drums whose 2017 CD Carnatic Connection was nominated for a Songlines Magazine 'World Music Award' and given a 5-star review in the London Evening Standard. Kay composes and arranges for the band and leads on their education work, founding the Bollywood Brass Academy in 2017.
Kay has presented her research into whole-class teaching at the Music Education Expo and the First Access Forum. She has designed and led CPD for LSO Discovery, Trinity College London, Music Education Solutions and the Bollywood Brass Band, and is an education consultant for Warwick Music.
Kay's book of beginner repertoire, 'Are You Ready?', is published by Warwick Music; in 2017 Kay was commissioned by Warwick Music and Music Education Solutions to compose songs for a new KS1 scheme of work for the pBuzz, which was nominated as 'Education Resource of 2018' by the 'Education Awards'.
Other publications include pieces for Trinity's Initial (2015/2018) and Grade 1 (2018) piano syllabus, Bollywood Blast! (Spartan Press) - a series of brass and wind tutor books with backing tracks in a Bollywood style - and Whole Class Bollywood Blast with David Rose (Bedford Music Hub), which is aimed at teachers of whole-class instrumental lessons and includes an Arts Award Discover programme.
Her MusicGurus courses bring that classroom experience straight to you: from your very first trumpet lesson through two sets of tunes for beginners, Kay sets out exactly what to play and how to play it.
