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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 03:37 PM
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Just wondering if there was anyone out there interested in samba? or that plays in a samba band?
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elmo
post Jun 8 2006, 03:38 PM
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Me! I loooove samba! I used to play in our school band, but now I'm at uni (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I occasionally go back and visit though, which is wicked!
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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 03:39 PM
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Cool, finally someone who has heard of samba most people just say whats that! I play co-run my schools samba band its great (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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elmo
post Jun 8 2006, 03:41 PM
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you play co run? does that mean you play and co-run it? I used to help out in mine with first years (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) What patterns can you do?
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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 03:42 PM
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By the way sorry for the double post people , only just noticed (dodgy internet) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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elmo
post Jun 8 2006, 03:42 PM
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looks like it's just me and you at the mo anyway!
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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 03:47 PM
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Ye, I play surdo and help lead it sometimes. We're playin Samba Afocha(Excuss the spelling, i cant spell!) and samba reggae at the moment!
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elmo
post Jun 8 2006, 03:50 PM
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what's a samba afocha? just a normal samba? we did a reggae, but I don't like it as much as some of the others.
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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 03:52 PM
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ye its just one of the normal beats! can't wait for saturday weve got a concert at some big rugby event (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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elmo
post Jun 8 2006, 03:56 PM
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wicked! How many's in your band?
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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 03:57 PM
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Not many (i dont think) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) about 10 maybe a few more (or less) most bands have bout 15 - 18 members don't they?
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benjaminja
post Jun 8 2006, 07:47 PM
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Can you outline the features of samba for those of us who are ignorant, please? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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elmo
post Jun 8 2006, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE(benjaminja @ Jun 8 2006, 08:47 PM) *

Can you outline the features of samba for those of us who are ignorant, please? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)


Samba's Brazilian music that they play in the Rio carnival. It can be drums, singing and dancing, but we're only talking about the percussion side. Flute girl plays a surdo (or a 1 or 2 drum, or a bass drum), which provide the beat a long with cutadors (bass drums which do a more fancy pattern!) Then on top of that you have tambourims (tambourines, without bells on), agogo bells (2 tone cow bells), snares which play accented and "ghost" notes, ganzas (shakers basically), and sometimes djembes, which are an frican sort of drum.

Most bands have about 15-18 people in, as fute girl says. That's what th school one is at the moment, but a few years sgo we were huuugeee!
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Kate
post Jun 8 2006, 08:36 PM
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We did a samba in 7/4 last year at school, it was really good fun. Our teacher is more into salsa than samba as he spent a year studying with some of the salsa masters in Cuba, but we have covered samba and salsa. We did samba last year and apart from our stint in 7 we did all the usual stuff: Reggae, Batucada, Hip-hop, Conga la Comparsa (which is like samba/salsa crossover). With salsa we did the regular stuff, like Cha-Cha, Rumba and mambo, but we started on Salsa hip-hop which is rumba and Cha-Cha at the same time with kit doing a slow shuffle kind of pattern. It's interesting, but then we got far too enthusiastic about doing Mambo No5 (Not Lou Bega! The real one, from the 20s - i think thats when!) with a real horn section that the hip-hop got forgotten!
That's the only percussion I can really talk about! It's definitely helped with reading rhythms and stuff! And I didn't panic so much when my sight reading was in 7 in my last exam...
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Flute Girl
post Jun 8 2006, 08:45 PM
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Samba layers lots of different rhythms using instruments such as surdos, tamborins, agogos, Repinique(reps), snare ...etc. It originates from Brazil and there are loads of different styles which are played such as: Bossa nova, samba reggae, Samba Enredo!

Tried to find examples but there aren't many out there! hope that helps (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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