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The tamborim
An earlier blog considered the samba drum with which most people are familiar, the large surdo . In this blog, we will turn to the...

Jon Aveyard
Apr 102 min read
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The caixas
Welcome to our first blog post of 2025. We ended 2024 by looking more closely at the large surdo drums that are, for many people, the...

Jon Aveyard
Feb 203 min read
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The surdos
The first few blog posts on the Worldwise Samba Drummers website were a broad introduction to samba drumming. They explained what samba...

Jon Aveyard
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Drum For Health
This special additional blog from the Worldwise Samba Drummers is to let you know about our involvement in the Drum For Health project....

Jon Aveyard
Sep 27, 20241 min read
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What are the samba schools of Brazil?
Although most people involved in samba drumming in the UK take part in this activity as a member of a community group, you may have...

Jon Aveyard
Sep 7, 20242 min read
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Where does samba drumming come from?
Although samba drumming was born in Brazil , it has its roots in the music and dance of west Africa. The 19th century Portugese...

Jon Aveyard
Jul 25, 20242 min read
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Movement in static samba drumming performances and parades
Samba drumming is inherently energetic but in order to add even more liveliness to the drumming performance, many samba bands will move...

Jon Aveyard
Jun 13, 20243 min read
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The samba swing.
If you have listened to performances by professional samba bands - some community samba bands too - you might have heard the samba swing

Nigel Brown
Apr 23, 20243 min read
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What rhythms are used in samba drumming?
One of the satisfying things about being in a samba band is the way in which, although each section might be playing something

Jon Aveyard
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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What does the samba leader do?
If you have ever seen a samba band in action you may have spotted someone stood in front of the rest of the band

Jon Aveyard
Jan 16, 20243 min read
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Which samba instrument should I play?
When people first come along to the Worldwise Samba Drummers, one of the first decisions they have to make is what instrument to play?

Jon Aveyard
Dec 2, 20232 min read
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What is samba drumming?
Welcome to the first Worldwise Samba Drummers blog. In these posts, we will be providing information about the music, instruments,...

Jon Aveyard
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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