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Batucada on the drum set

  • January 10, 2012
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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 […]

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Todd’s Methods: adding bass and snare to samba cruzado

  • May 5, 2011
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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 […]

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Bass drum variations for samba

  • April 23, 2011
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Here are a couple of pages of third surdo parts, transcribed (one could say stolen) from a book purchased by a friend in Brazil, O Batuque Carioca, by Guilherme Goncalves and Odilon Costa. These are […]

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