PRICE:
The price per person is based on double room occupancy
at a 3-star hotel (steps from the school). The price will include
hotel (double occupancy. there is a single occupancy price as
well), transportation to/from airport, field trips, course fees,
scooner trip in the bay, Salvador T-shirt, tour information package,
transportation for some of the long distance field trips, and
a "welcome" light lunch party on the arrival of group. One meal
a day, breakfast, is included.
Please email
me for the course price, which does not include you airfare
to Salvador, Bahia state, Brasil.
CONTENT:
Our course of Brazilian percussion is divided into
three parts:
- POPULAR PERCUSSION
- AFRO-BRAZILIAN PERCUSSION
- DRUM SET
This is an
idea of some of the rhythms we will be studying and performing
in Salvador.
We are working on our curriculum and wll have the definitive curriculum
post here soon.
Curriculum
for Salvador Course
POPULAR
PERCUSSION
Samba
Pagode
BaiE^o
"6/8"
Ijex?
Samba de Roda
Capoeira
INSTRUMENTS
TO BE USED: conga, quinto, atabaque, zabumba, triangle,
tamborim, surdo, pandeiro, agogô,clave, xequerê,caxixi,
berimbau, cuica, ganzá, afoxé.
TIMBALADA
- AFRO BRAZILIANPERCUSSION
Samba Reggae
Samba Merengue
6/8
Maracat?
Rumba
INSTRUMENTS
USED:
- Drums 18"20"22"24"
- Timbaus
- Repiques
- Bacurinhas
- Xequerê
- Tamborim
- Tarol
METHODOLOGY:
Repiques and tarols (snare drums)
will assigned to students who can better use the drum sticks.
Others who have more experience with congas could develop their
technique on the timbaus, for instance. Tamborims, xequeres and
claves
would be taught first to beginners.
DRUM
SET
Bossa Nova
Samba Cruzado
Pagode
Axy?N Music
BaiE^o
Samba Merengue
Maracatu
METHODOLOGY
— Rhythms will be written on the blackboard and sheets
with rhythmic notations will given to the students . The students
will learn how to
play the rhythm on each part of the drum set separately, and then,
using the whole set.
DAILY SCHEDULE
10:00 - 12:00 GROUP
ONE Popular Percussion
GROUP TWO Free time
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
Break ($3 - $5 range)
1:00 - 3:00 GROUP S
ONE and TWO Afro Brazilian Percussion
3:30 - 5:30 GROUP TWO
Drum Set
GROUP One Free time
Evening
Dinner and Cultural
and performance opportunities.
