Timba piano tumbao (2-3)

Timba is the Havana dance music of the 1990s (NG La Banda, Issac Delgado, Los Van Van's later records): salsa harmony with funk bass, drum kit and a piano tumbao that is longer, more chromatic and more percussive than a son montuno. This four-bar figure is Scivales's "salsa dura" montuno in C minor, which already has the timba habits: a melody in the top voice that leaps across the clave, chromatic neighbour tones (the b6 and the b9 of the dominant), and a left hand that doubles rather than comps. The bass tumbao stays classic (and-of-2, 4) so the piano's displacements are audible against it; the kit adds a quarter-note bell and the kick on the tumbao. Play it slow first: the hands move in parallel but the accents do not.