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Greetings to all who make up this beautiful community, it is always good to write here and leave something so that we can interact through votes and comments.

This post for me is quite special, and the reason why I share it is because I want to show you part of what my beginnings in salsa were, a style that I consider to be a sea like jazz, and that I consider which is not my strong suit, but I really LOVE it.

This video is from 2016 (5 years ago), and I remember that by that time I could spend many hours studying and listening to a lot of good music. I had a lot of bassist friends who mastered the salsa style well but had no knowledge of how to bring the bass to a melodic level, so I took on the task (very confidently) of starting to create a kind of knowledge exchange, and so on. It was how I got into the world of salsa and they into the world of improvisation.

I watch this video and it fills me with joy because today I can see what I have advanced through study and dedication but it also makes me laugh because whoever is a musician and watches this video will know that I was thinking more about the melodies that I could support instead of thinking about the groove and the taste of the song (but only experience and growth gives us the ability to close in on the real concept of the song and leave the finger shuttle for other styles).

I consider this song to be one of the songs that Nelson Arrieta has hit the most in his career as a soloist and that it has an incredible flavor.

I express my gratitude to all the colleagues and bass musicians who challenged me in a healthy way to be part of this style, to understand beyond the notes, today, I feel that I owe them a lot.

God bless you all.