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Jazz Drums Lessons: Brazilian - Samba Rhythms
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[MUSIC] Now, on top of the bass drum in two,
with the high-hat on the off beats,
I'm gonna play some typical Samba rhythms.
Now Samba is a music that is generally played by a lot of percussion instruments.
So the drummer can have his or her hands quite full.
Where bossa nova comes in, we'll get to that in a minute.
Bossa nova was a simplification of Samba,
which made it I think more easily understandable by a lot of people.
But let me go through some just kind of general Samba rhythms and
I'll play these on the snare drum using brushes.
I'm gonna do these first with just the bass drum, all right, so
you can concentrate on these rhythms.
One
two,
one
two,
[MUSIC].
Okay, now let's play the bass drum pattern that most of us
equate with Brazilian music and that's the dotted 8th note,
16th beat pattern that's repeated.
[MUSIC] Now, it's a bit of a challenge
to get the second half, or
the bass drum beat that lands on two,
to play that open when you're playing this pattern.
If nothing else, I think it helps if
you think of this accent on two, and
that'll kind of give it at least a little
bit more of that feel or weight as you play.
[MUSIC]
Cool.
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC] Now, when I play
this rhythm, [MUSIC]
I wanna make sure that
the 16th subdivisions
are lining up as well as
possible with the bass drum.
[MUSIC]
Good.
Now, let's switch over to sticks, and
I'll add the ride cymbal to the foot pattern, bass drum and hi-hat.
[MUSIC]
So
I think
the line
between
samba
and
bossa
nova,
at least
in my
own jazz
kinda
filtering
process,
it gets
a little
bit
blurred.
The beauty of samba is that you can kinda
mix some match as long as you retain or
maintain this basic kinda subdivision groove,
thinking of the ascent on two, so
that it has advance-like quality.
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC] Now, one of my favorite beats to play,
when I break away from just playing on the hat,
or playing a constant series of notes on the ride cymbal,
is to bring in the floor tom and a heighten this
accent onto and get more of a soldo effect.
It starts out very simple, the right hand and the right foot do this.
[MUSIC] Or I could try it with
the 16 inch floor tom for
an even better effect.
[MUSIC] Okay, that's kind of bare bones, but
now we'll add the subdivisions with the left hand.
For starters let's just play them on the hi-hat.
[MUSIC]
So let's break that down.
If I alternate between the hi-hat and
the snare, [MUSIC]
and then play the hi-hat on every
other beat with the foot, [MUSIC]
like that,
check out what happens with the sticking.
[MUSIC] So
when you want
to bring it
all home,
that's a really
nice way to add
to the excitement
of a tune and
sound like a group
of percussionists
rather than
just one drummer.
Okay, that's Samba and
Bosanova in a very small nutshell.
[MUSIC]