Salsa Music

What is the name of the section in Salsa music describing the backing singers?

• choro

• chorus

• singers

• lead singer

woodblock

• Hand held hollow shakers filled with beads, seeds or dried beans mounted on wooden handles and played in pairs

• A metal instrument, originally hung around the animals neck, producing a metallic sonority.

• Small “slit-drum” made from a single piece of wood struck by a beater producing a sharp clacking sonority.

• Tall, narrow, single-headed drums from Cuba, mounted on a stand and often played in pairs by the hands.

This section provide rhythmic accompaniment, often use syncopation and form polyrhythmic texture. Name this section.

• sonero

• front line

• vocals

• rhythm and percussion

A Salsa band is made up of three sections: ___________, __________ and _______________.

• vocals, saxophones, rhythm and percussion sections.

• trombones, vocals and percussion section.

• trumpet, drum, vocals sections.

• vocals, front line and rhythm and percussion sections.

Which of the following instruments do not belong to the front line section of Salsa music?

• Trombones

• Saxophones

• Piano

• Trumpets

Which of the following instruments do not belong to the category of Latin American percussion?

• timbales

• timpani

• cowbell

• guiro

This section is where the main melody stops and only the rhythm section or a series of repeated chord is played. Name this section?

• intro

• break

• verse

• ending

Guiro

• A pair of shallow single- headed drums with metal casing played with a variety of beaters.

• A pair of short thick dowels made of wood played by striking them together producing a clicking sonority.

• Small, open-bottomed drums played in pairs by the hands often on the players lap.

• An open-ended gourd with notches which are rubbed by a stick producing a ratchet-like sonority.

Which of the following instruments do not belong to the rhythm and percussion section of Salsa music?

• bass guitar

• double bass

• Spanish/acoustic guitar

• synthesizer

Name the instrument.

• timbales

• shakers

• conga

• claves