Born in Salvador, Bahia on Brazil’s northeast coast, samba-reggae is as its name implies: a fusion of samba and reggae.   The music is both folkloric and Música Popular Brasileira (MPB).  For Carnaval bloco-afro annually parade on foot with massive percussion sections of surdos, repeniques, timbaus, and caixas. MPB artists are driven through the streets of Salvador performing on Trio Eléctrico, [...]

I first started having trouble understanding what people were saying when I was in high school. I could hear speech but had trouble understanding words. For instance, my mother would ask me “What do you want to eat?” but what I heard was “Why don’t you wash your feet?” There was much humor, frustration, impatience and anger depending on who I encountered as my hearing began to decline.

Here is a new video with some new Groove ideas…. go check it out and leave a comment for feedback!

Have some fun with it and a nice time while practicing

“The Coco rhythm first took shape in the singing of the “Tiradores de Coco” (coconut catchers), based on the sounds they made while breaking the coconuts to extract the meat.”

It’s pretty fascinating how far computer-aided performance can go.  Here’s a Wiimote-controlled robot that (at least according to Popular Science) will make “Human Hippies obsolete.”
Not sure I’d go that far — but still very cool!
A word of thanks to the Zildjian tweet for this one.  Let us know what you think!

The man behind the machine, [...]