Samba de Orfeu

[nellopinello]

excellent drummer. this is real music.

[somcomcoracao]

@mart22222 sorry to be a smart, but it's 'chocalho '. With the hi-hat chick you will notice Brazilian drummers get a softer more textured sound with less of the high pitch of the cymbal and the placement is a bit later instead being exactly on the centre of the '&'. Additionally beat 'duh' on the bass drum leading onto '1' and '2' is also placed late. Check out Edu Ribeiro, Erivelton Silva, Lucio Vieira, Rafael Barata youtube.com/watch?v=WydkXBMHB-­U&feature=related. Best wishes!

[mart22222]

@somcomcoracao Thanks for the input and no I don't think you're being a smart, it's nice to find a new avenues to pursue otherwise we stagnate.

Thanks for the comment

Mart

[menzulitru]

GOOD DRUMMING MAN . I'M A DRUMMER TOO. :))

[topsutothemax]

really nice sound man

[Cpetrodrum]

Where are you hitting with the stick to get that light washy sound? it sounds beautiful!

[mart22222]

@Cpetrodrum I'm hitting the stick on the wire of the brush whilst it's spread out on the snare drum giving a nice almost chocolo (shaker) sound and then inbetween that i slap the brush hard on the snare creating a harsher sound like a cabasa pattern.

[Cpetrodrum]

@mart22222 Its a great pattern man props to you! I'm trying to work it out :)

[saladsaregreen]

Where do you get the sheet music for this song?

[mart22222]

@saladsaregreen sorry mate no idea, I was just using the song as a 'vehicle' to demonstrate this technique and as such just playing it by ear.

Martin

[saladsaregreen]

@mart22222

Aww man!!! so you just made up the beat on your own? and do you have any books you recommend for learning samba like this? and double bass 32nd notes?

[mart22222]

@saladsaregreen well yes and no, I made up the combinations i used as i went along but as i explained in the description the brush/stick concept was taught to me a by drummer with the Edmundo Ros big band and as such is a very authentic sounding samba.

I am however thinking of doing a vid explaining the technique and demonstrating at a slower pace. As regards double bass I can totally recommend the books by Joe Franco.

[saladsaregreen]

@mart22222

Ohhhhh, well if you do make that vid, that would be great!!! Also, i watched some of your students on the other videos you posted, you did a great job at teaching them.

[mart22222]

@saladsaregreen Thank you.

[PetClarkie]

This brings a smile to my face! Thank you!!

[MitsPSU]

Is this the Stan Getz version?

[jorisjorisjoris]

@MitsPSU

definitely no getz, since I hear no 'pffffffffffffff'

[kopalpe]

Perfect! Who is sax player?

[unicursalhex]

Nice drums. Not Phonics although they look and mount very similarly... Must be GMS. If I were to play anything than Sonor it would probably be those

[mart22222]

Thanks, the kit is a sonorlite birch fusion (circa 89/90) but I'm also using a Black Panther black brass shell/24 karat gold hoop snare.

Martin

[musicalala]

Very nice job-sounds great. The same feel is cool with brushes in both hands too. There's a vid here on youtube with Matt Slocum playing a slight variation of this feel(two brushes) w/Sara Gazarek singing the song"More".

[nealthedude]

very nice and thanks for posting

[silvertone953]

stylish and tasteful playing, as ever :)

thanks for sharing this, i've never seen that technique before - sounds great!

[mart22222]

Thanks and yeah it is quite a rare small group Brazilian technique and It felt good to actually post something that has no youtube comparison.

I'd like to repost it without the distorted sound but it would be a shame to lose the comments.

Anyway glad you enjoyed it, maybe I should consider posting a 'how to do' vid slowing it down.

Martin

[runz85]

@mart22222

Posting a how to video would be really a great idea! I

[17masonry]

Cool! I've never seen this technique done before. It looks like straight sixteenths and you have patterns of 2's, 4's, and 3's in there??? Thanks for the vid...I'm gonna write this out and practice it right now :O)

[mart22222]

Thanks, yeah the subdivision could be thought of as 16ths although from a theory point of view more likely 2 bars of 8ths (sambas generally being written in 2/2).

Actually it is really just a question of 'paradiddle' type combinations and fairly spontaneous at that, if you have ever practiced mixing paradiddles (including displaced ones) then this would give the 2's 3's and 4's that you heard.

The real tricky part is making sure the brush is firmly down when you hit it with the other stick

tbc

[mart22222]

If your timing is slightly out then you'll hit the brush as it moves off the drum and get no sound, the other part of the technique needs the brush to gently move and sweep to create a shaker or 'Chocolo' sound as well as slapping from the wrist to get the accents, so you have 3 sounds going on, right hand stick ghost, left hand brush ghosts and left hand accents.

Actually the reason I posted this was because it's such a rare groove and I was so lucky to be taught it by a Brazilian drummer

Mart

[Maria12Sousa]

ADOREI esse som. Parabéns.

Adoro bateria,

[mart22222]

Thank you Maria, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Martin

[dobraf123]

hello, very well done.

could you post the snare rudiments? thanks

[mart22222]

thanks, glad you enjoyed it, do you mean the entire 26 standard British rudiments or one used on the Samba?

If the latter then no because no rudiments were actually used just combinations of 2's 3's and 4's played between hitting the brush with the right hand and sliding the brush for left hand ghosts or slapping the brush for accents.

As regards the 26 rudiments, I noticed you have Jim Chapin on your channel, to be honest I think I may be 'peeing in the You tube ocean' on that one.

Martin

[stefano198]

the name of the song? thanks

[mart22222]

I'll see if I can find out, it's on a latin covers cd, and was just a bargain bucket special I picked up years ago

Martin.

[davegray02]

very impressive! great work once again

[skinnyandbrown09]

verrrrrrrrry nice :)

and a fellow user of moon gels no less!

[mart22222]

Love the stuff, you may have noticed had to use quite a few thanks to the new Evans G2's, great fusion sound but really lively, hence...........loads of moongel.

Glad you enjoyed the vid

Martin

[DrummerInExile]

nice choice of music! :) nice groove as well!

Sweet happy life!

[kimoyan]

awesome technique.

[itsme16688]

Lovely.

Great job on the technique! I especially enjoyed the footwork.