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These instruments are used for samba. Other Brazilian styles of music such as Maracatu or Samba Reggae use some different instruments.
Bateria samba (big percussion groups) use the following
Melody
Cavaquinho - like a eukelele
Guitar - often a 7 string guitar
Mandolin
Bass section
Surdo - big bass drums, holding the beat. There are usually 3 different sizes with different tuning to allow the band to create complex bass rhythms. Normally metal surdos are used for parades as they are sturdy, but wooden drums sound great on stage, especially with natural heads.
Middle section -
Caixa - these are the snare drums and are not the same as European snares, having a different arrangement of the snare and a much dryer sound (and they are lighter - should be made of aluminum so they can be carried easily)
Repinique (Repique) - Kettle drum - used simply to support the beat, with a few soloists providing complex patterns and leading the band in and out of the music
All these big drums are best made of aluminum.
Percussion section
Tamborim (Pl. Tamborins) - a six inch circular frame drum with no jingles, hit by a flexible plastic stick, best made of metal and with a nylon head
Agogo - a double metal cowbell with the 2 bells tuned differently and a flexible handle to allow the player to tap the bells together
Ganza - a cylindrical shaker
Chocalho - a large metal shaker with jingles - described by the Times of London as being "a cross between an abacus and a tambourine"
Cuica - a hollow metal friction drum, with hide head holding a stick inside the drum which is rubbed by a damp cloth to produce a series of squeaks and groans.
Other less common instruments include the Frigideira (musical frying pan), reco reco (metal scraper) Agogo de quatro (4 belled Agogo) Cymbals (hand held but only worth including if you have over 200 drummers), Pandeiro -(for visual effect as nobody can hear it)
Small samba groups are different. Any mix of the instruments below is possible. The essential instruments are voice, cavaquinho and pandeiro.
Cavaquinho
Guitar
Pandeiro - looks like a tambourine; frame drum with jingles
Tamborim - for small groups a wooden 6" tamborim with hide head is best, hit with a wooden stick
Tantan - bass drum held over the lap and played with one hand whilst the body is tapped with the other hand
Repinique de Mao - hollow metal drum with a nylon skin at one end
Agogo (see above)
Ganza (see above)
Surdo - to hold the basic beat
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How Do You Play A Samba Drum?
They are played with the hands.
What is the influence of samba and Latin American music?
Ellie Amelia And Olivia infulenced Samba music when they travelled to Brazil for 30 Years.
What is a samba band?
Samba drums come from Brazil. Congas do not come from Brazil and are not samba drums. Samba drums include surdos, caixas, repiniques, chocalhos, ganzas, repiniques, agogos, pandeiros and cuicas. You can find out more about all of these by clicking on the related link below.
Where does Samba music come from?
t is normally fast and has a fast beat and tempo. Actually samba can also be slow. What makes it sound different from other types of music is the specific samba swing. By this I mean not speed or enery or tightness, but the fact that half of the notes in a bar always fall slightly off the beat, in a very consistant pattern. The swing stays the same throughout all of the instruments and variations of patterns, and is held by the melody too. It is the swing that gives samba its addictive feel. The samba swing is not the same as Jazz or latin swing, which have different offbeats. The swing cannot be annotated by conventional means so you can't learn it by reading musical notation, but you can hear it clearly in samba recordings. It derives from the African origins of samba music, which grew out of a complex mix of African music, marches and the polka. There is some great historical material on Youtube - try looking up anything by Clara Nunes, or Cartola. The modern samba schools in Rio play a much faster samba with more emphasis on percussion - you can also find these well illustrated on youtube - search for "ensaio tecnico na avenida". This bateria samba is so fast you can hardly hear the swing but it's there - without it the music would just sound like a march. Not all Brazilian traditional music is samba, there are many other styles such as Maracatu and samba reggae which sound quite different, having a slightly different swing, different orchestration and a very different cultural tradition.
Name all musical instruments?
There are hundreds of different musical instruments around the world. Flutes and drums are some of the oldest. Stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute, dulcimer, and piano are found in many cultures as well.
How Do You Play A Samba Drum?
They are played with the hands.
How has samba music influenced western music?
Samba's greatest influence on Western music is quite possibly the fusion of "latin jazz". As the name suggests, latin jazz is a blend of latin styles (primarily samba and bossa nova) and Jazz Music. This blend of samba and jazz was made popular by the music of Chuck Mangione.Another possible influence of samba on Western music is the increase in the use of polyrhythms in percussion, especially the drumset. Since the samba bands combine several different percussion instruments all playing different, but usually regular repeating patterns, as samba became more popular in the music of North America drummers had to adapt by approximating the sound of the samba batucada instruments in the drumset (i.e. the surdo was replaced by the bass drum and the repenique was replaced by the snare drum).This style of playing several different, sometimes conflicting, rhythms on the drumset became more common in other types of American music such as rock, fusion and jazz.
What is the influence of samba and Latin American music?
Ellie Amelia And Olivia infulenced Samba music when they travelled to Brazil for 30 Years.
What are the examples of aerophone instrument?
Aerophones are Musical Instruments played by blowing air through the object. These instruments are part of the percussion family. Examples include apito or samba whistle, siren and slide whistle. All woodwind and brass instruments are aerophones
How many different types of instruments are there?
Thousands, if not more. There are all sorts of musical instruments. There are instruments for performing many different tasks. Then there are instruments for measuring all sorts of physical, chemical properties of things.
What is a samba band?
Samba drums come from Brazil. Congas do not come from Brazil and are not samba drums. Samba drums include surdos, caixas, repiniques, chocalhos, ganzas, repiniques, agogos, pandeiros and cuicas. You can find out more about all of these by clicking on the related link below.
Where does Samba music come from?
t is normally fast and has a fast beat and tempo. Actually samba can also be slow. What makes it sound different from other types of music is the specific samba swing. By this I mean not speed or enery or tightness, but the fact that half of the notes in a bar always fall slightly off the beat, in a very consistant pattern. The swing stays the same throughout all of the instruments and variations of patterns, and is held by the melody too. It is the swing that gives samba its addictive feel. The samba swing is not the same as Jazz or latin swing, which have different offbeats. The swing cannot be annotated by conventional means so you can't learn it by reading musical notation, but you can hear it clearly in samba recordings. It derives from the African origins of samba music, which grew out of a complex mix of African music, marches and the polka. There is some great historical material on Youtube - try looking up anything by Clara Nunes, or Cartola. The modern samba schools in Rio play a much faster samba with more emphasis on percussion - you can also find these well illustrated on youtube - search for "ensaio tecnico na avenida". This bateria samba is so fast you can hardly hear the swing but it's there - without it the music would just sound like a march. Not all Brazilian traditional music is samba, there are many other styles such as Maracatu and samba reggae which sound quite different, having a slightly different swing, different orchestration and a very different cultural tradition.
Name all musical instruments?
There are hundreds of different musical instruments around the world. Flutes and drums are some of the oldest. Stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute, dulcimer, and piano are found in many cultures as well.
What types of music have been influenced by samba?
True samba is from Rio de Janeiro and some styles are samba enredo, pagode. People outside Brazil tend to call all Brazilian music samba though. Other styles that foreigners call samba include Maracatu, samba reggae, and samba funk.
What musical instruments were used in the songs?
It all depends on what song you are referring to. There are different instruments used for different genres of songs.
What is that samba song with all the drums?
Magalenha by Sergio Mendes or E Pra Valer by Samba Squad. Very Popular samba songs.
Why do the same notes on a trumpet and on a saxophone sound different when both are played with the same pitch and loudness?
because their different instruments and all instruments have different sounds
