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Back in the early 90s I expended a day in Lincoln at an event called “A Forest of Samba”. It involved around six samba bands along with galore people playing through the streets, whipping up a veritable samba storm as they went along accompanied by exuberant dancers in established colourful Brazilian costume. It was a outstanding event to witness, and was my original experience of the wholly infectious rhythms that constitute samba. You listen samba and you tap you feet and in general twitch to the beat – if you’ve an ounce of rhythm in your body it is inconceivable not to! Back then there were apparently around 10 samba bands in the UK. Today there are well over 100 so it seems in the interposing years it is popularity has increased exponentially. So what percussion instruments do you need in a samba band? Well, a samba band comprises of a heap of constituent elements that work together to constitute the finish samba sound and rhythm. You have huge surdo drums, repinique drums, caixa drums (like snare drums), tamborims (small tambourines without jingles), agogo Bells and respective ganzas (tube shakers) and beaters. The huge surdo drum furnishes the heartbeat for the overall samba sound, forming a basis for the other instruments to build on. It is normally kept by a strap around your neck and played with just one beater while the other hand is employed to dampen the sound it produces, which is like a bass drum in a conventional drum kit. The repinique player is applied in samba as a kind of conductor for the rest of the band, setting the rectify tempo and rhythm for the entrance of the other instruments. Again, it is played with one stick whilst the other hand dampens the skin. The repinique’s drum head is kept very taught and the sound is almost like the sound of established timbales. The samba snare, or caixa, is like a repinique but shallower and with a simple 4 strand snare which adds a distinguishable buzzing sound to this again tightly-headed drum, which is in general played with two sticks in a traditionalisti “marching snare drum player” manner. Tamborims are little 6 inch diameter drums which are like little tambourines but without the jingles. The tamborim is struck using a distinctive 2 or 3 pronged beater with one hand while the other dampens and tightens the drum head to achieve higher and lower sounds. Which brings us to the agogo bells and other assorted shaky things. Agogo bells are of course made of metal have a nice ringing tone, whereas shakers are normally somewhat basic in construction, fundamentally being a metal or plastic tube containing little hard plastic balls, or similar, which evidently develop the shaker sound when the shaker is er…shaken. If you imagination attempting your hand at samba then I would commend joining a samba band or school as this music genuinely does require various players playing together to create the full-on samba sound, and there are specific proficiencies to be learned to get the best out of the instruments. Having said that you in truth don’t have to be an expert or rhythmic talent to be competent to take portion in this marvelously communal music, which is a joy to both listen and play. If you are mesmerized in experiencing this musical magic why not look up your local samba band and just go along and give it a try? Oh and wake me up before you agogo! |
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