Salsa gender and culture is a musical, developed by musicians Latinos Caribbean origin, which has the following characteristics:

Rate: Use as a base the same rhythmic pattern Cuban SonWith are key two bars of 4 / 4. * Melody: It presents a mix of melodic features Cuban jazz melodic features conventional and Latin folklore.

Harmony: Couples harmonic features Cuban tinged with jazz and other Latin music.

Instrumentation: Use Cuban instruments popularized from the 20's: pails or drums dance, bongo drum, Cuban guiro, cowbellTwo maracas (In other regions only used one) conga (Differed from other Afro-Latin drums by tuning hardware), and instruments piano, contrabass (In some cases electric bass), Trumpet, Saxophone (especially bass) and trombone (In some cases and especially in traditional sauce, was used flute and violin). It is very important to know that the sauce needs to be addressed beyond a simple rhythmic pattern, or beyond the key, should be seen as a cultural phenomenon, ethnic harmony, and above all, mixed and popular, because the sauce is born in the neighborhood, in poverty. And it is essential to differentiate both chronologically and musically-called "Latin Jazz" de la Salsa. Continue http://ping.fm/O2HH7