Brazilian PercussionJosh Dekaney, Syracuse University

www.joshdekaney.com

Brazil

• Brazil is the 5th largest country and the 6th economy in the world

• Diverse country with African, European, and Amerindian cultures

• “Discovered” in 1500 by Pedro Alvares Cabral

• started as a colony of Portugal, then became an empire, to a military dictatorship, to a democracy in 1985

• slavery ended in 1888

Portuguese Greetings

Portuguese Phonetic English

Tudo Bem? Too-doo báne? Is everything well?

Como Vai? Komo vý How’s it goin’? Obrigado (spoken by male) Oh-bree-gá-do Thank you (spoken by male)

Obrigada (spoken by female) Oh-bree-gá-da Thank you (spoken by female)

De nada Jee ná-da Your welcome

Bom Dia Bone Gee-a Good morning

Boa noite Bow-a noychee Good evening/night

Musical Regions

• North - Amazon rainforest

• Northeast - Recife, Pernambuco and Salvador, Bahia)

• Southeast - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais

North Region

• Home of the world’s largest and most diverse rain forest

• Music is influenced by the multiple Amerindian groups populating the Amazon region

• over 700,000 Indians still alive today

MaracatuNortheast Region - Recife, Pernambuco

• Parades in Carnival in Nações “Nations”

• most ancient of Brazil’s rhythms dating to the 1660s and the crowning ceremonies of the African kings

• Different styles of maracatu: baque virado, baque de martelo, baque de parada

Maracatu

Alfaia

AbêCaixa

Gongue

Mestre Jorge Martins Nação Estrela

Brilhante

Nagô, Nagô

Nagô, Nagô a nossa rainha ja se coroou

Samba-ReggaeNortheast Region - Salvador, Bahia

• Samba-Reggae, Axé (Afro-Blocos, Trio Elétricos)

• Artists: Timbalada, Araketu, Ivete Sangalo, Olodum, Daniela Mercury, Araketu

• Styles: Baião, Forró, Samba de Roda, Côco

Salvador, Bahia

Samba ReggaeInstruments

Tarol

Surdoworn around the waist and

played with two mallets

Repeniqueworn around the waist

played with two long sticks called virme

Timbauplayed with the hands

ForróZabumba

Triângulo

Acordeon

Agogó

CapoeiraNortheast Region - Salvador, Bahia

• Capoeira Angola (traditional and closer to the ground)

• Capoeira Regional (more acrobatic and modern)

Capoeira instruments

atabaques and congaberimbau - viola, medio, and gunga

caxixi, moeda, and stick

pandeiro

Paranaue

Paranaue, Paranaue ParanaParanaue, Paranaue Parana

Eu vou dizer ao meu senhorque a manteiga derramou

Escolas de Samba “Samba Schools”Southeast Region - Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo

São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Samba instrumentsTarol CuícaCaixa

Chocalhos

Repenique-played with one stick and

one hand

Pandeiro

Agogô Surdo-played with one mallet/one hand

Pagode instruments

Tan-Tan

Rebolo

Repique de Mão

Tamborim

Pandeiro

Choro• Brazilian ragtime music from the late

19th century

• Choro is often played with pandeiro, clarinet or saxophone, flute, mandolin, guitar, or cavaquinho

mandolincavaquinho

Books • Gilson de Assis. Brazilian Percussion. Advance Music

• Duduka da Fonseca & Bob Weiner. Brazilian Rhythms for Drum Set. Drummer’s Collective Series

• Guilherme Concalves & Odilon Costa. O Batuque Carioca. Luminar publishing

• Daniel Sabonovich. Brazilian Percussion Manual. Alfred Music

• Airto Moreira. Airto: The Spirit of Percussion.

• Nelson Faria & Cliff Korman. Inside the Brazilian Rhythm Section. Sher Music

• Fryer, Peter. Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 2000. (ML 232 .9 F79 2000)

• McGowan, Chris and Pessanha, Ricardo. The Brazilian Sound. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1991. (ML 3487 B7 M4 1991)

• Perrone, Charles A. and Dunn, Christopher. Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization.Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001 (ML 3487 B7 B76 2001)

• Rohter, Larry. Brazil on the Rise. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan 2012

Brazilian Percussion and Drumset

Historical Background

Brazilian percussionists

• Nana Vasconcellos

• Airto Moreira

• Marcos Suzano

• Carlinhos Brown

• Dinho Nascimento

• Jorginho Gomes

• Cyro Baptista

• Duduka da Fonseca

Websites

www.joshdekaney.com

www.pandeiro.com

www.espiritodrums.com

www.maracatuny.com

Listeningalbums & artists/groups

MPB (Música Popular Brasileira)Livro Caetano VelosoUnplugged Gilberto GilBrasileiro Sérgio MendesCor de Rosa e Carvão Marisa MonteVarious Elis ReginaMtv Unplugged Gal CostaMas que Nada Jorge BenjorLuz Djavan

Bossa NovaThe man from Ipanema Antonio Carlos JobimO Mito João GilbertoBlack Orfeus Vinícius de MoraesThe New Face of Bonfá Luiz BonfáQuarteto Jobim Morelenbaum Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum

Samba-ReggaeEgíto Madagáscar OlodumCada Cabeça É Um Mundo TimbaladaSol de Liberdade Daniela MercuryThe Rhythm of the Saints Paul Simon

CapoeiraCapoeira Angola from Salvador, Bahia Smithsonian FolkwaysAxé Capoeira Mestre Marcos BarrãoThe Art of the Berimbau François Kokelaere

BatucadaRio Carnaval. EarthBeat! 9 42514-2Capoeira/Batucada. Soul Jazz Records SJRCD37Brazil Percussions. KAR 978-3004 978

Bateria Nota 10. Compass Rose 3003 714Batucada Brasileira. ANS 12219-2Percussions Bresiliennes. LDX 274299

SambaOs Oito Batutas PixinguinhaAquarela do Brasil Ary BarrosoSamba da Minha Terra Dorival CaymmiSinal Aberto Toquinho e Paulinho da ViolaAlvorecer Clara NunesAo vivo-Montreux Festival Beth CarvalhoTá Delícia, Tá Gostoso Martinho da Vila Forró (Baião)O Essencial de Luiz Gonzaga Luiz GonzagaO Essencial de Dominguinhos Dominguinhos Mestre Ambrósio Mestre Ambrósio

Instrumental Music and JazzJazz Samba Charlie Byrd & Stan GetzBrazil from the Inside Trio da PazAcademia de Danças Egberto GismontiQuarteto Novo Hermeto PascoalReturn to Forever Airto Moreira & Flora PurimFragments Naná VasconcelosIllusions Eliane EliasSom Brasil SivucaI Ching Uakti

MaracatúAstrolabio tucupira.com.brasil MawacaAmazônica Amazônica w/ Camerata Cantione AntiguaContaminacão Naná VasconcellosSamba Nova Chalo EduardoNation Beat MaracatuniversalMaracatu New York Maracatu New York with Scott Kettner