4- Finger Snaps
These four can add excitement if they are used sparingly. By adding finger snaps you create a grove.
5- Soft Strings
6- Horn Riff
7- Jazz, Rock or blues Piano riffs brings a nice change to a boring style.

There is no end to what you can do with Latin music and percussion.

Sometimes I mute everything but the Drums and Bass and add all four pads. The pads might be: Bass Drum, Snaps, Horns, and Strings. Toward the end of a upbeat song might use the style and the pads.

Listen to a song, the band keeps changing, no boredom – and when the singer sings the band really gets in the background. Both on Korg and Yamaha they have a dedicated control to mute parts of the style. The secret is imagination.

John C