Continuing this little samba unit, here are some warmups for a samba groove with a right hand move to the floor tom on 2, for a surdo effect. It’s another place to go, it’s nice to have it available. Similar to something we did, in an unfriendlier form, in the “tresillo unit” in 2024.
Play the warm ups many times, add the bass drum of your choice, then use practice rhythms from Syncopation, or any book on Brazilian drumming, or from my pages of transcribed Brazilian rhythms. Half note = 80-135.
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