#CHARACTERISTICS OF SAMBA MUSIC HOW TO#
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The History of Samba | Want to learn to samba? Start here. (Not to be confused with the Cuban timbales.) Watch timbal drummers on the move with Percussao Brasileira. (also spelled as TIMBAU): The timbal is a conical Brazilian kettle drum most often found in Bahia. Watch the smiling Tamborim Unidos da Tijuca in motion in 2009. Often the tamborim players lead the procession. Some masterful pandeiro playing.Ī small single-headed hand drum hit by a thin stick to make a sharp sound that cuts across all the other percussion, usually on an off-beat.
The pandeiro is a kind of tambourine that has a single head and jingles (“pratinelas”) arranged in pairs around its frame. Watch some surdo drums at work in the forefront of this performance by PhillyBloco. A third surdo plays a rhythm, known as a “cutter,” between the first two surdo beats. Performers tune two surdos to different notes and play them in both complementary rhythm and tone, emphasizing the downbeats of the measure. The surdo is a large bass drum that provides the deep, underlying percussive motion for a procession. Listen to the cuica and, if you understand Portuguese, learn about it too. The drummer makes the distinct “laughing” sound by putting a hand inside the instrument and rubbing a wet cloth across a resonating cane of bamboo. The cuica is a Brazilian “talking drum” (or, more descriptively, “laughing drum”). Often musicians play several types or caixas with several types of rhythms. The caixa is played with drumsticks and either suspended around the neck on a strap or held on the shoulder to send the sharp rhythm out over a procession. Very similar to a snare drum, though it has two or four wires/cables/snares that run along the top of the drum, rather than along the bottom like the typical drum kit snare. Some of the primary percussion items include the…
While every instrument has its own sound and serves its own particular purpose, the cumulative effect is meant to so energize a listener that s/he has not choice but to dance. One of the most exciting elements of samba is the onslaught of percussion instruments ensembles bring forth when they perform. Lessons for your homeschool or classroomįrom an Angolan language and means: “to pray.”.Western Europe and the Nordic Countries.
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