Brazilian Percussion
Josh Dekaney, Syracuse University
www.joshdekaney.com
Brazil
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Brazil is the 5th largest country and the 6th economy in the world
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Diverse country with African, European, and Amerindian cultures
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“Discovered” in 1500 by Pedro Alvares Cabral
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started as a colony of Portugal, then became an empire, to a military dictatorship, to a
democracy in 1985
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slavery ended in 1888
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Portuguese
English
Phonetic
Portuguese Greetings
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Tudo Bem?
Too-doo báne?
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Como Vai?
Komo vý
Is everything well?
How’s it goin’?
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Obrigado (spoken by male)
Oh-bree-gá-do
Thank you (spoken by male)
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Obrigada (spoken by female)
Oh-bree-gá-da
Thank you (spoken by female)
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De nada
Jee ná-da
Your welcome
Musical Regions
• North - Amazon rainforest
• Northeast - Recife, Pernambuco and
Salvador, Bahia)
• Southeast - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo,
Minas Gerais
North Region
• Home of the world’s largest and most
diverse rain forest
• Music is influenced by the multiple
Amerindian groups populating the
Amazon region
• over 700,000 Indians still alive today
Maracatu
Northeast Region - Recife, Pernambuco
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Parades in Carnival
in Nações “Nations”
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most ancient of Brazil’s
rhythms dating to the 1660s
and the crowning ceremonies
of the African kings
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Different styles of maracatu:
baque virado, baque de
martelo, baque de parada
Maracatu
Abê
Caixa
Mestre Jorge Martins
Nação Estrela Brilhante
Alfaia
Gongue
Nagô, Nagô
Nagô, Nagô a nossa rainha
ja se coroou
Samba-Reggae
Northeast Region - Salvador, Bahia
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Samba-Reggae, Axé (Afro-Blocos, Trio
Elétricos)
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Artists: Timbalada, Araketu, Ivete
Sangalo, Olodum, Daniela Mercury,
Araketu
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Styles: Baião, Forró, Samba de Roda,
Côco
Salvador, Bahia
Samba Reggae
Instruments
Tarol
Surdo
worn around the waist and played
with two mallets
Repenique
worn around the waist
played with two long sticks called virme
Timbau
played with the hands
Forró
Zabumba
Triângulo
Agogó
Acordeon
Capoeira
Northeast Region - Salvador, Bahia
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Capoeira Angola (traditional and closer to
the ground)
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Capoeira Regional (more acrobatic and
modern)
Capoeira instruments
pandeiro
caxixi, moeda,
and stick
atabaques and conga
berimbau - viola, medio,
and gunga
Paranaue
Paranaue, Paranaue Parana
Paranaue, Paranaue Parana
Eu vou dizer ao meu senhor
que a manteiga derramou
Escolas de Samba “Samba Schools”
Southeast Region - Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Samba instruments
Caixa
Tarol
Cuíca
Pandeiro
Chocalhos
Agogô
Repenique
-played with one stick and one
Surdo
hand
-played with one mallet/one hand
Pagode instruments
Rebolo
Tamborim
Repique de Mão
Pandeiro
Tan-Tan
Choro
• Brazilian ragtime music from the late 19th
century
• Choro is often played with pandeiro, clarinet or
saxophone, flute, mandolin, guitar, or
cavaquinho
cavaquinho
mandolin
Books
Brazilian Percussion and Drumset
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Gilson de Assis. Brazilian Percussion. Advance Music
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Duduka da Fonseca & Bob Weiner. Brazilian Rhythms for Drum Set.
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Guilherme Concalves & Odilon Costa. O Batuque Carioca. Luminar publishing
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Daniel Sabonovich. Brazilian Percussion Manual. Alfred Music
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Airto Moreira. Airto: The Spirit of Percussion.
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Nelson Faria & Cliff Korman. Inside the Brazilian Rhythm Section. Sher Music
Drummer’s Collective Series
Historical Background
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Fryer, Peter. Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press,
2000. (ML 232 .9 F79 2000)
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McGowan, Chris and Pessanha, Ricardo. The Brazilian Sound. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1991.
(ML 3487 B7 M4 1991)
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Perrone, Charles A. and Dunn, Christopher. Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization.Gainesville: University
Press of Florida, 2001 (ML 3487 B7 B76 2001)
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Rohter, Larry. Brazil on the Rise. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan 2012
Brazilian percussionists
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Nana Vasconcellos
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Airto Moreira
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Marcos Suzano
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Carlinhos Brown
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Dinho Nascimento
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Jorginho Gomes
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Cyro Baptista
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Duduka da Fonseca
Websites
www.pandeiro.com
www.joshdekaney.com
www.espiritodrums.com
www.maracatuny.com
Listening
albums & artists/groups
Samba
Os Oito Batutas
Pixinguinha
Aquarela do Brasil
Ary Barroso
Samba da Minha Terra
Dorival Caymmi
Sinal Aberto
Toquinho e Paulinho da Viola
Alvorecer
Clara Nunes
Ao vivo-Montreux Festival
Beth Carvalho
Tá Delícia, Tá Gostoso
Martinho da Vila
Forró (Baião)
O Essencial de Luiz Gonzaga
O Essencial de Dominguinhos
Mestre Ambrósio
Luiz Gonzaga
Dominguinhos
Mestre Ambrósio
Instrumental Music and Jazz
Jazz Samba
Brazil from the Inside
Academia de Danças
Quarteto Novo
Return to Forever
Fragments
Illusions
Som Brasil
I Ching
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz
Trio da Paz
Egberto Gismonti
Hermeto Pascoal
Airto Moreira & Flora Purim
Naná Vasconcelos
Eliane Elias
Sivuca
Uakti
Maracatú
Astrolabio tucupira.com.brasil
Mawaca
Amazônica
Amazônica w/ Camerata Cantione Antigua
Contaminacão
Naná Vasconcellos
Samba Nova
Chalo Eduardo
Nation Beat
Maracatuniversal
Maracatu New York
Maracatu New York with Scott Kettner
MPB (Música Popular Brasileira)
Livro
Caetano Veloso
Unplugged
Gilberto Gil
Brasileiro
Sérgio Mendes
Cor de Rosa e Carvão
Marisa Monte
Various
Elis Regina
Mtv Unplugged
Gal Costa
Mas que Nada
Jorge Benjor
Luz
Djavan
Bossa Nova
The man from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim
O Mito
João Gilberto
Black Orfeus
Vinícius de Moraes
The New Face of Bonfá
Luiz Bonfá
Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum
Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum
Samba-Reggae
Egíto Madagáscar
Cada Cabeça É Um Mundo
Sol de Liberdade
The Rhythm of the Saints
Olodum
Timbalada
Daniela Mercury
Paul Simon
Capoeira
Capoeira Angola from Salvador, Bahia
Smithsonian Folkways
Axé Capoeira
Mestre Marcos Barrão
The Art of the Berimbau
François Kokelaere
Batucada
Rio Carnaval. EarthBeat! 9 42514-2
Capoeira/Batucada. Soul Jazz Records SJRCD37
Brazil Percussions. KAR 978-3004 978
Bateria Nota 10. Compass Rose 3003 714
Batucada Brasileira. ANS 12219-2