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the grooves
Although you really need a teacher to be able to learn these rhythms, we've listed our faves here so that we can all learn the same tunes internationally. In this way we can create a more diverse noise at the meetings we so love to frequent!
A samba band consists of players of the various instruments, and a mestre. A mestre is the person who leads the groove using all manner of signals, directing its flow by stopping and starting various instruments and calling brakes. See our new mestre section for a comprehensive visual guide to the signals.
These signals vary from mestre to mestre and from school to school. Each instrument has its own signal, as have all the breaks, plus all the quirky extra tricks used to really get the groove going. We hope to be able to illustrate these signals through this site at some point!
All breaks and / or changes to the groove happen by the mestre counting them in, usually getting your attention with a whistle. This is important to keep the groove tight and flowing. Players must therefore always be aware of what the mestre is doing, although some of our situations obviously call for us to be aware of what those around us are doing too!
The tunes themselves are built up by fairly simple layers (ie. each instrument plays a pattern) to give an overall symbiotic sound. In other words, it's easy to learn!!
The tunes listed here include information about their structure (ie. how they're played), notation and, in some cases, downloadable audio files. All tunes are available to print out.
You can now download one of our MPEGs!!
A note about printing
All the tunes listed on this site are available for printing. Each tune is split into its 'Structure' and 'Notation', and each of these have links next to them which create a more 'printer friendly' version in a new browser window. If you want to print a tune then simply click these links and then use the 'printer' icon in the browser window.
anti-copyright - distribute and make some glorious noise!!
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