All profits are donated to the Youth Music Program in Somerville Public Schools in MA In 2004, hand drummer Marcus Santos from Salvador city in Bahia, Brazil, began a new concept in drumming. Grooversity is the innovative and creative drumming system that Marcus has developed for education and entertainment purposes. It promotes community outreach and social change by targeting diversity awareness. This multi-city percussion project is creating a network of people. Grooversity’s network includes people of different ethnicities, ages, and races. It portrays a positive message by engaging communities to appreciate diversity, support civil rights, encourage self-esteem, and most importantly, enjoyment. The Grooversity system is Marcus’ original drumming compositions based on the traditional Afro Brazilian rhythms, which he has combined with a world music perspective and a modern approach. Grooversity is fun, interactive and inclusive. Every person and instrument is equally important and essential for the ensemble. Some patterns are intricate and challenging for the most experienced professional drummer, and others are simpler yet equally important patterns for the amateur player. In fact, the simplest patterns are the most important components of Join our worldwide drumming network! the ensemble because they keep the other elements together. Grooversity brings activism to an entertainment level and has engaged communities worldwide in 22 cities in Find us Online and Canada, France, Italy and USA. Join the Movement Today! Win Prizes! Join Grooversity today! www.grooversity.com www.youtube.com/Grooversity www.facebook.com/Grooversity Hello! Hello! Samba Reggae Thanks for reading my Brazilian Percussion Survivor kit. In this With roots in Samba, Caribbean and African Music package, you will find a few basic ensemble parts for two of the styles; Samba Reggae is a pretty new style from most popular Afro Brazilian music styles. You can also find a few Salvador, Bahia. Its’ origins are linked to civil rights examples of rhythms for Pandeiro, the most versatile hand held movements and nowadays is a very popular music drum in the world. style around the world. The idea of this material is to provide a MUST know to survive kit for all Brazilian music players disregarding what instrument you Samba Enredo play. Here is a quick description of the instruments covered on this For sure the most popular Brazilian Drumming style package. outside of Brazil. Samba Enredo is a fast tempo samba style. Enredo means theme in Portuguese. Timbau: Conically shaped hand drum made of wood or aluminum. The name of this style refers to the Carnival It has one plastic head tuned extremely high to produce a loud competition in Rio de Janeiro where each Samba bright sound. group has to choose a theme for their parade. Caixa (Snare drum in English): Cylindrical buzz sounding drum played with two wood sticks. Pandeiro Repinique or Repique is also cylindrically and tuned very high. In Part of the frame drum family; the Pandeiro is a very Rio it is played with a bare hand and one short wood stick. In versatile drum with three very distinctive basic Bahia, it is played with two plastic sticks. shaped drum with two sounds. Even though it is a small hand drum, the heads. Pandeiro can be compared to a drum set. The jingle Surdos are large bass drums. There are usually three different sound can simulate a hi hat, the open tones can sizes of surdos. The tuning is done according to their size where sound like a bass drum, and the slaps can be the biggest surdo is tuned the lowest. compared to the sound of the snare drum. Therefore Pandeiro is the Brazilian tambourine. Due to its wide array of you can have lots of fun applying drum set rhythms sounds, it is often compared to a drum kit. The Pandeiro is for to Pandeiro. sure the most versatile instrument in the world. Cajon is a wood box drum. It is not a traditional Brazilian Samba and Baião on Cajon instrument but due to its versatility and compact size it can also be In this lesson, the Cajon is played with a bare hand used to play Brazilian rhythms. and one brush stick on your dominant hand. The brush technique is different for each rhythm. On the This is it for now. Hope you get to use this material many times Samba pattern, the brush will play the Teleco teco over and over! pattern while the bare hand plays the same rhythm Please stay in touch and say hi or leave a comment on our of the Bass drum. On the Baião, the brush will facebook or website! simulate a shaker pattern while the bare hand plays a Bass and Snare drum rhythm. Fired uP! Check out our video classes on our website at www.Grooversity.com/videos.