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 […]
Category: Brazil
Stanley’s Page of Bossa Nova
Here is a page of basic Bossa Nova patterns, which I wrote up for a couple of my students. I’ve included the standard pattern that will be familiar to a lot of people, a Partido […]
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! […]
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 […]
Transcription: Robertinho Silva – Baiao Malandro
Here’s a new transcription of a burning mid-70’s Brazilian fusion piece, Baiao Malandro from Egberto Gismonti’s LP Carmo, featuring Robertinho Silva on drums (also known as Roberto). It’s fairly quick and dirty- there’s a good […]
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 […]
Airto: 1983 Modern Drummer interview
Here’s part of another great Modern Drummer interview, from 1983, with Airto, the famous Brazilian drummer and percussionist. As always, I’ve excerpted the parts that are most important to me, and the headings are mine. […]
Method book round up: Brazilian drumming
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been thinking a lot about Samba of late. And as my friend Blake Thomas, an expert cuica (not to mention caixa and zbumba) player has loaned me […]