As a non-Latino Matt didn’t grow up having a pair of maracca’s, or clave’s or a set of conga’s etc., placed in his hands at the family barbeque where EVERYONE was jamming and dancing. For many of us, learning to play Latin music was not presented in such an organic atmosphere where you absorbed it like water through the skin.  For us, at times it’s been like walking into an impossible maze where the first beat of the bar is nowhere to be found and trying to play a properly syncopated montuno for more than 4 measures is like trying to ride the most crazed rodeo bull on the planet. Because Matt had to break this music down to its elements he can explain it clearly and has documented his path of understanding in an informal booklet that you will study from and keep.