Christmas Music for the Puerto Rican Cuatro: Samuel Ramos

by Samuel Ramos

Overview

This holiday season, snuggle up with some rich, hot cocoa, foot warmers and the Christmas music in Cuatro. The book is written in the standard notation and tablature (TAB) form. This hugely popular book by Samuel Ramos is a veritable treasure trove of knowledge on playing Christmas favorites on the Cuatro. With his passion for Puerto Rican music and its instruments, Samuel creates Christmas magic with his brand of Cuatro playing and he shares it with all you Cuatro enthusiasts!

Snap up this chance to learn to play the favorites in the Yule season and you'll be the flavor of the Christmas season. At your next family parranda, you'll be surrounded by friends and family, singing songs penned by the greats of the ages gone by. This is your chance to join the league of the greats with the Cuatro Puerto Rico book for Christmas Favorites. Make this holiday season one your family will remember for generations to come!

Features:

• Simple to understand & read
• Includes a majority of Christmas favorites
• Written in the notation and tablature(TAB) form

Make this Christmas even more joyful with this collector's edition of Christmas Favorites. Grab a copy for yourself or gift it to friends and family who love Puerto Rican music!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781468154801
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2011
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

Samuel Ramos, born in Newark, New Jersey, started playing the guitar with his father at the age of 12. At the age of 15, he discovered the cuatro and began taking lessons with Norton Torres. As a high school student, he joined the school's rondalla (an instrumental group) playing both guitar and cuatro. Samuel holds a BA in music education from Antillean Adventist University in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, with a major in classical guitar. He studied under the tutelage of Dr. Jacques Landre. In 1999, he recorded his first instrumental CD for solo guitar, Meditando en la Cruz (Meditating on the Cross). He joined the faculty of the Juan Morel Campos Performing Arts School in Ponce, as a strings instructor. He later became an assistant professor of guitar at the Inter-American University of San German, Puerto Rico. He also served as a public school music teacher for 6 years in Lajas, Puerto Rico. Samuel resides in Orlando, Florida with his wife Brenda and two sons, and currently teaches elementary music for the Orange County Public Schools of Florida.