Drum Lesson #17 Samba therhythmlab.com by Doug Smith

[MrFrapster]

nice beat :) noticed the wear in the middle of snare.if you.play it inbetween the middle and the rim and it will sound alot nicer

[hellfromshiryu]

nice, nice!!!

[blagmusic]

Good Stuff!

Peace!

[therhythmlab]

Peace is the way !!!!!!!

O and Love

Well and forgivness!

[marnmf]

Very Nice Work Doug. I'm a Brazilian drummer too and your samba sounds very good to me. The way you play here would sound very nice at a great open space. In a small bar you could do the same with brushsticks I suppose. The accents at the snare are very dynamic to me. I got the samba "fell" spot on! Thank you for the great samba lesson. I'll study it at home!

[therhythmlab]

wow, I feel honored by the compliment

[LatinSkinz]

cool

[Wassergrab]

this is more of a bossa than samba, man. Samba is more polyrhytmic, the bass drum plays something completely different and it has to be way more dynamic.

e.g. Mitch Periins´s cascara variation

[therhythmlab]

Thanks for the response and feedback. Thats it why i describe it as "quasi" Brazilian. Perhaps you could submit a video response of yourself playing it and you can enlighten all of us.

Thanks

[Wassergrab]

Arent you English? Your sense of humour is like that..:)

Yeah, it would be the best if I just uploaded something, but the fact is that i cant play proper afro cuban rhytms with the right feel, the only one i can play is bossa and i am learning right now how to do the samba, mambo, rhumba and others. AND i do not have a camera AND the drums i have to play home are really cheap electronic drums. But maybe one day i can take someones camera to our rehearsal studio, until then, i shut up.

[TheJulio3222]

@Wassergrab u hater!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wassergrab]

@TheJulio3222 Why hater? Why so many exclamation marks? Go scream at someone else.

[therhythmlab]

@Wassergrab Hi guys. So I don't hate anyone here. Let's face it. There will always be someone better than I am and someone worse. Just play because you love it!!

That being said, if you are going to give a bunch of feedback on how a certain beat should be played have the integrity to post an example to back it up. Otherwise your words are moot.

[stonelenny]

Hear: Milton Banana, Edson Machado, Wilson das Neves, Paulinho Braga...

[garrettmillerdrums]

@Wassergrab This dude is trapped inside a box.

[TheJulio3222]

@garrettmillerdrums and a hater 

[Wassergrab]

@TheJulio3222 Oh yeah. And A HATER!! Say it once again: A HATER!

[TheJulio3222]

@Wassergrab HATER!!!

[blb]

@TheJulio3222 Go hate your self you motherhater

[TheJulio3222]

@garrettmillerdrums u just mad cuz he play better than u! hater! hater! HATER!!!!!!!

[garrettmillerdrums]

@TheJulio3222 I wasn't talking about the guy in the video...besides you already responded to me....amazing how people learn to type when they don't know how to read.

[TheJulio3222]

@garrettmillerdrums OK HATER HATER HATER HATER!!!!! THIZ GUY IS WAY BETTER THAN U!

[garrettmillerdrums]

@TheJulio3222 Get back on the short bus, son.

[therhythmlab]

@garrettmillerdrums Hi guys. So I don't hate anyone here. Let's face it. There will always be someone better than I am and someone worse. Just play because you love it!!

That being said, if you are going to give a bunch of feedback on how a certain beat should be played have the integrity to post an example to back it up. Otherwise your words are moot.

[garrettmillerdrums]

@therhythmlab So you're okay with this dude spamming your page with all this "hater" business? Pretty lame.

[TheJulio3222]

@garrettmillerdrums hater wack drummer go teach ur self flute

[therhythmlab]

@TheJulio3222 Hi guys. So I don't hate anyone here. Let's face it. There will always be someone better than I am and someone worse. Just play because you love it!!

That being said, if you are going to give a bunch of feedback on how a certain beat should be played have the integrity to post an example to back it up. Otherwise your words are moot. 

[TheJulio3222]

@therhythmlab why u send me that u did a good job bra! am talkin about garrettmillerdrums that punk is a hater!

[TheJulio3222]

@Wassergrab hater

[cabby4]

you sound like Thomas Hayden church

[Drummersleven]

Oh man,

thanks for posting this,

i have absolutly no training in samba's,

but this is a freaking good start!

Thanks mate!

[justin2535]

cool, very simple but effective and good sounding samba. Nice lesson.

[colegiobn]

Gracias Muy bueno y muy simple. Suena Mucho

[koelnboy78]

boss clave has nothing to do with samba !!!!!

[justin2535]

Sure it does. Bossa Nova came about in the 50s and sixties as a combination of jazz, samba and unique vocal lines and harmonies. The samba rhythm is very close to the Bossa, Much of the Bossa nova style of drumming came as a cross between jazz and interpreting samba rhythms on a drumset. But since you wrote "boss" maybe you meant The Boss, Bruce Springstein, in which case you're right. He has nothing to do with Samba :P

[andersonnarciso]

Very good man, i'm a brazilian.. i like u tch (Y)

[cletus1979]

really interesting, thank you man

[indestructiblebm]

this would be samba school

[chicozero]

I find this video very helpful!

Cheers mate!

[liennto]

cool... thanks! vancouver, bc.

[seasondrummer]

thxs for your help

from london

[samlers]

PLEASE SEND ME LYRICS NOTES FOR ME  !

[therhythmlab]

I don't understand.

Doug

[Qub37]

I think he wants to know if you can send him drum music for this...

[hermandrum]

accent (R)lr(L) rl(R)l rl(R)l r(L)rl

[Theprince192]

and 1toti 2 toti hahah

[durante888]

damn, this brother went carnaval on us all!

[reyespalacios24]

relly helpful!!!

thx...

from Chile

[therhythmlab]

you are welcome.

Doug

[teidm]

thank brother, it helps me a lot

[therhythmlab]

I am glad you find it helpful.

Doug

[therhythmlab]

right

I ti an ta 2 ti an ta 3 tian ta 4 ti an ta

which a fellow student in college taught me.

I prefer it to 1 + and a because i like the sylabant sound of the t's in my mouth as I count quiesly. But either counting system works. I just try as much as possible to encourage my students to ba able to count while they play and read.

[MrJohnCool]

How do you count sixteenth notes? It's 1 e + a, etc!

[therhythmlab]

you are so right. This is one of my teaching kits and it gets played 20 hours a week. As you can imagine i play these heads until they break because I am a broke drum teacher. I am glad that my sound made you laugh out loud.

Doug

[brunobarb3]

you're snare skin is finished ... lol

[TheSerialChiller]

Holy crap man accidentally discovering your videos on youtube is like an answer to my prayers. I've been taking a couple of lessons back in SA, but then I moved to Dubai a month ago and guess what, no tutoring here buddy!!! so these videos help me a lot. Thanks man!

[therhythmlab]

hey I am glad you like it.

Doug

[therhythmlab]

Thanks man. merci!

[aspettakriss]

hi Doug!

Thank you for the lesson.YOu're the best.

Take care and yours.

Christian