This developing subtractive method is becoming really interesting. It makes it much easier to write and communicate more complex orchestrations than in the past— which is not an end in itself, it just makes it […]
Category: batucada
Batucada on the drum set
We haven’t done anything new with samba in awhile, because I’m still digesting all of the stuff we’ve done previously. But here’s something new that came up yesterday, using open and muffled tones on the […]
Transcription: Mocidade tamborims, 2009
Here’s something I did for my own benefit, which may or may not be of interest to my regular readers. I picked up and have been fooling around with a Pearl bass drum-mounted tamborim (CSD! […]
More on samba feel
Following up on my earlier post on feel in samba, here I have gone a little further in analyzing what’s going on with the repinicado/”tripteenth” (Michael Spiro’s term, I believe) thing in samba, and have […]
Samba Cruzado – third surdo warm-ups
Here are some new preparatory studies for working with samba cruzado, and for getting this third surdo thing happening with the bass drum- I’ve refined my methods a bit as I’ve been working with this […]
Fun and useful samba/Brazilian music links
Here are a number of samba/Brazilian music-related links you might find helpful: Carnival in Rio: play yourself a samba school drums section. We’ll start with a fun one. This is a flash application allowing you […]
Todd’s Methods: adding bass and snare to samba cruzado
Well, we’re all samba all the time around here these days, but what the heck- the point of this enterprise is for me to post things I’m interested in, and working on, and right now […]
Caixa blow out: part 1
Here are a couple of pages of caixa (that’s a Brazilian snare drum) patterns which are in common use in Portland, along with some of their variations from other sources. Includes a partial illustration of […]