Basics on how to play the berimbau

[2013DNA]

This is great! Muito Obrigado! :)

[rapharigoti]

Thanks DNA2013! É um prazer compartilhar e ajudar!

Abraço

[emmetfox]

Thaaaaank Youuuu!!!

[rapharigoti]

Thanks for the atention to the video!

Raph

[huttimaaan]

thank you very very much for this video :)) i will practising with it

[rapharigoti]

Thanks Huttimaaan! Good Luck!

[VenezolanaSiempre]

excelente! obrigada

[rapharigoti]

É um prazer compartilhar parte da cultura brasileira!

Um grande abraço Venezolana

[VenezolanaSiempre]

Excelente! obrigada

[ObscurelyUnkown]

I love the sound of Berimbaus! Great instructional video by the way.

[rapharigoti]

Thanks for the comment!

[brazildude2]

Hey bud could please tell me how long and what material I can make the Baqueta?

Muito Obrigado pelos seus videos.

[rapharigoti]

It´s important that it is made of hard wood... some bambu are hard enough to make baquetas! But red wood are also excellent! The baqueta should be about 35 do 40 centimeters long.

Thanks for the comment

[Jazzyteach65]

thank you immensly!!!!!

[rapharigoti]

I´m glad you liked my video! Thanks for watching

[kozbatahat]

thank you!

your videos are great!

[rapharigoti]

It´s a pleasure to help kozbatahat ! Have a great time playing your berimbau!

[vektor13]

Very useful! Thank you!

[rapharigoti]

Your welcome Vektor! Ir´s a pleasure to help!

[benjamings]

Nice that you put all three main rhythms in there. Very helpful

[rapharigoti]

Thanks Benjamings

[lolokiller2]

Thanks a lot ! I am doing Capoeira for 2 years now and I always wanted to know how to play Berimbau !! My teacher just gave me the Berimbau friday and I love it :)

Your lesson is very useful .. Thanks ! :)

[rapharigoti]

Hy Lolokiller2 ! I´m very glad I could help!! Practice and surprise your teacher!

Bye bye

[shinjitsu83]

is that bamboo?

[rapharigoti]

Hy shinjitsu! Yes. It´s bamboo!

[shinjitsu83]

@rapharigoti ah, I didn't know you could use bamboo. Awesome!

[rapharigoti]

O lot of other wood can be used!! Experiment with what ever you can find!

Good luck!

[angelartfly1]

Very useful instructions !.I am trying to find the right pumpkin speaker,because the one i had is broken on the tension spot.

[rapharigoti]

Hy Angel!! Are you really using a pumpkin!?? The big orange ones!? Record the sound of your berimbau!!! Must be very interesting!!

Bye bye

[robertopaulinho]

bzl!!

[rapharigoti]

Ok!

[robertopaulinho]

bzl!!

[vdubwhore]

thank you so much you help me alot! i hope i can play this summer with some guys who play in the park..........i hope .

[rapharigoti]

Hey! Don´t forget do film you guys playing and upload the video!

Abraços

[beatrizanabell]

thank you very much.I've  just bought my berimbau and this video is great!

Beita from Capoeira Sul da Bahia - Milan

[rapharigoti]

It´s a pleasure to share Brazilian Art!

[GiagaloElba]

thank you, very clear

[rapharigoti]

Glad I could help! Keep on playing!

Abraços!

[JeffHardy3280]

very good i understand it !!

[rapharigoti]

Thanks Jeff! Is it you in the fight videos in your channel!? Maaannn!!! Really cool!

[JeffHardy3280]

no thats not me =( ^^ but is my idol

[BunnyRabbitD]

This is really interesting. How do you know when to lift the cabaza off your belly though?

[rapharigoti]

Hin Bunny Rabbit! It´s part of the rithm. But usually you hold the cabaça on your belly when the coin is pressed softly on the string, and off your belly when the coin is not pressed on the string or when it is pressed hard. But some rithms have to be played in certain ways... with the cabaça on or off your belly!

[playero757]

fucking awesome I ordered a berimbau I CANT WAIT TO FUCKING PLAY IT. my favorite band is SOULFLY from brazil thas's why im getting my fucking berimbau hell yeah !!!

[rapharigoti]

Fucking great!!! It´s nice share fucking good stuff from Brazil!! Don´t forget to post videos of your fucking playing man!!!

Abraços

[lashlayer82]

Thanks dude... so I´m going to learn to play the berimbau...

best wishes...

greetings from germany

[rapharigoti]

Hi Lashlayer!! POst vídeos of your berimbau playing!!

Good Luck!

[ESKMATE]

thanks a lot!!!!!!!!! saludos desde Argentina!

[rapharigoti]

Obrigado Eskamate!! Muito felicidades é boa sorte!!

Abraços

[glikur]

that is not regional. that is sao bento grande de angola. regional goes like this-two buzz sounds, two free string hits and one whit a stone hard against a wire

[rapharigoti]

Hy Glikur! The berimbau can be played in many ways, and there are a lot of variations. The rhythm I´m showing is regional. You can be shure! I´m Brazilian and I practice capoeira...

Thanks for the info.

[renzolikescheez]

I love this instrument. Btw Verga en Spanish is slang for penis.

[rapharigoti]

Hahahaha! Very good!! Now I know why it gives me so much pleasure to play! I´m actually masturbating!!

Thanks for the info!

[renzolikescheez]

Haha I actually didn't expect this kind of response. Boa sorte, adeus.

[omegalucius]

how do you spell the last song you played?

it's really nice :)

[rapharigoti]

Hy Omegalucius, it´s spelled: São Bento Grande or Regional...

See ya!

[bboyzshannon]

very good explanation

[rapharigoti]

Thanks Bboyzshannon! Keep on jogando capoeira!

Abraços

[NoPixelz]

You are a master... But Candeias doesnt use that São Bento Grande de Angola, wich is the last one you used...

I will still practice just to improve my skills, thanks alot!

[rapharigoti]

Thanks Nopixelz! Capoeira is like that... each group chooses the way they do their thing! But they are all Capoeira and give us pleasure!

Keep on jogando!

Abraços

[thiagogravatin]

Congratz, good video ^^

Just keep trying. I have only 2 things to say...

1 - Banguela = São bento pequeno. Banguela is Banguela, we have São Bento Grande de Angola and São Bento Grande da Regional. São Bento Pequeno is an capoeira angola rhythm.

2 - One more time, congratz ^^

Axé

[rapharigoti]

Thanks for the info Thiago!!

See ya!

[geva90]

5*'s..!!!

thanks for the efoorts :p

[rapharigoti]

Thanks! Glad I can help!

[comicfreak11]

how do i play zoomzoom

and paranue:)

[rapharigoti]

Zoom Zoom and parana ue are songs. They are usually played with banguela or regional rhythm.

[geva90]

your cabesa is cool..

but i think you got bambo beribau it sepose to be from di berimba tree.

[rapharigoti]

Hy Geva. The name of the berimbau is derived from a tree called beriba. But there are no rules, prohibitions or exclusiveness. It´s a peace of wood, wire and the cabaça. it´s a berimbau if it sounds like one.

Thanks

[geva90]

berimba+bow

berimba(=the type of tree it afro-brazilian made of..)+bow(=the sound it make)

haha but i have to agree with you, but the traditionally made has more historiclly sprit in it in my opinion, and about your video i love it! but i use a stone :p

[rapharigoti]

A stone is cool as well. Just one more thing about history to share. One of the names of the stone is DROBRÃO. It´s the name of the coin used to play the berimbau back in young Brazil, when slaves were recently free! It was a big coin, good for playng!! But stones are just as cool!!

Thanks

[daxking2]

thanks this is a really good video, i have a biriba's berimbau and it's so heavy, i'll keep practicing to improve myself, peace

[rapharigoti]

Hy Daxking! Show us your playing in your videos!

Thanks!

[cityhunterfan]

Finally! Someone's posted a video that really explains how to play, not just a video of them playing. This and you, are the greatest! Question though, why the string on the end of the baqueta? Is that so it doesn't slid out of your fingers? I sometimes have that problem. Peace.

[rapharigoti]

Hy Cityhunterfan!! I´m glad I can help! The string on the baqueta is just to make it easier to carry it when I carry the berimbau around. I put the string around the verga, like the cabaça!

Thanks!

[sunnygosha]

Thank you so much :) I've got my berimbau week ago! It still seems to me a bit magic, but with your advices it will be easier! Thanks :)

[rapharigoti]

Good luck on your playing!! You will notice the berimbau really is a magic instrument!! Takes you some where else!

Bye!

[a0e0roberts]

Great video. But next time, hang a bed sheet behind you, so I can see better what's going on. That flowered curtain just confuses my old eyes!

You said you have a video on how to make the arame from old tires. I couldn't find it on youtube. I'll keep looking.

[rapharigoti]

Hy ROberts! Thanks for the sugestions! O totaly agree... i should have a "studio" for my videos. The video of the arame is in portuguese: It´s title is: Arame para o Berimbau

Thanks

[ArkimeTyhaen107]

do you have to know how to play it before doing capoeira, or do they teach you in classes?

[rapharigoti]

Itś actually the opossite! Traditionaly capoeira moves and game is tought before the berimbau playing. Usually berimbau playing is done by the mestre or graduated students! But there are always exceptions! Each group has itś own filosophy and rules!! Is there a group near where you live?

[fastforwardNBF]

thx man

[queixada4]

i'm surprised bamboo makes for such a good sounding berimbau! terrific vids!

[rapharigoti]

Hi Queixada! The quality of the audio os the video is not that good! Itś even nicer when your hear ir "live" I used my bambu berimbaus in other videos, the airmodel ones. The quality of the audio is a little better in those videos! I recomend my last airmodel video!

Thanks!

[rsinatra]

olha bicho, valeu mesmo por esse vídeo, é completo.

or if you're not brazilian, thanks a lot for the video, it's so complete

[rapharigoti]

Valeu Cara!! CÊ é brasileiro e tá morando na Dinamarca? Ou é um dinamarquês que aprendeu nossa lingua?

Abraços!

[rsinatra]

Desculpa não resopnder antes, mas é porque não tinha visto :). Sou músico brasileiro que mora na Dinamarca :) E ando aprendendo o berimbau, inspirado por Naná Vasconcelos, conterrâneo meu! abraços

[HomeFilmsBR]

ops: Know rsrs

[HomeFilmsBR]

nice video man! rsrsrs

Will help various peoples if don't now play berimbau...

and me hehehe

[rapharigoti]

Thanks Man!! I´m happy to know you loke Capoeira as well as airmodels!!

See ya later Patrick!