Here is another page of Brazilian rhythms, written in 4/4. The last set was written as 8th and 16th notes in 2/4, the native meter of much of Brazilian music, but when playing lead sheets […]
Category: bossa nova
A page of Brazilian rhythms
Here I’ve pulled the snare drum parts from a random selection of bossa nova/samba records— by Baden Powell, Tamba Trio, Milton Banana, and others. Some of these are played fairly repetitively on the recording, some […]
Bass drum variations for Bossa Nova — adding left hand
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for some time. I like the page of bossa nova bass drum variations I did before, but it’s a little difficult to visualize the left hand part […]
Odd meter samba?
This line from Peter Erskine’s The Drum Perspective is pretty much an instant classic: I’ve felt strongly, for a long time now, that instead of seducing and encouraging the younger and learning drummer to practice, […]
Much more on the Baby groove
Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about a song you never heard until a few days ago, “Baby” by Caetano Veloso. It’s not exactly the most important thing ever, but it’s on my […]
Page o’ coordination: “Baby” groove
Well, it took long enough, but I finally have a name for the post-Elvin phase of this coordination series. I don’t expect many people will follow me down this particular rabbit hole, but whatever. This […]
DBMITW: Upa Neguinho
A few versions of the famous Edu Lobo song. You can safely skip to 0:50 here: More after the break: This Sergio Mendes version looks a little goofy at first glance, but actually totally killer: […]
Another samba builder
Our previous “samba builder” was very batucada-focused (and probably in need of an update); this has more to do with samba as played on the drums, like in our Milton Banana pieces. The method is straightforward; […]
Transcription: Milton Banana — O Samba Da Minha Terra
Another Milton Banana transcription, this time the batucada-style intro to O Samba Da Minha Terra, from the same Sambas De Bossa album as last time. We’ll probably be seeing more of these, because I really […]
Transcription: Milton Banana — Flor de Liz
As I mentioned before Milton Banana is one of the great Bossa Nova drummers, and since that tends to be an under-understood style (by the whole rhythm section, actually), I want to go a little […]
DBMITW: Milton Banana
Here’s some great playing from one of my favorite Brazilian drummers, Milton Banana: Bonus Banana after the break:
MD column: hi-hat technique
OK, I’m not meaning to turn this into a fair-use abusing, exclusively old Modern Drummer stuff blog, but a longer post is taking its sweet time getting finished, and this is just what I happen […]