Here’s a favorite piece of drumming by Airto, from Chick Corea’s Return to Forever album on ECM. I’d like to transcribe this entire track, but today I just have the primary grooves for you. The […]
Category: samba
Light posting
Still on light posting, through the weekend most likely, while I finish up some other projects. So enjoy some Dom Um Romao: A whole lot more of Dom after the break:
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 […]
Bass drum variations for bossa nova
Bossa nova can be a very static style for novices- I’ve noticed in teaching that they have a hard time getting away from the standard, repetitive pattern. And, aside from Ed Uribe’s book, I really […]
Best books: The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set by Ed Uribe
The Essence of Brazilian Percussion and Drum Set is the little sister of Uribe’s massive volume on Afro-Cuban percussion. I’ve been using it almost daily for several months now, and not only is it a […]
Tuesday morning bossa nova
Well, “it’s Tuesday” and “here’s some bossa nova”, anyway- this isn’t a regular feature or anything. Here’s a variety of poppy 60’s stuff, starting with one of my favorite things from the vocal group Quarteto […]
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 […]