Capoeira is culture, fitness, music, history, art…
30 Apr 2015 – Berimbau Toques – Practice Video & MP3 Last week I was playing with Adobe Premiere, so I could make some Berimbau ringtones using the berimbau. I used my phone to record it. Then I thought wouldn’t it be useful if I could record all the berimbau toques I practice regularly to … Read more
Mojubá Music Lesson – 16 April 2015 We practiced this São Bento Grande repique, amongst other things: tsh#tsh# dim dom dom x2 tsh#tsh# dim dom dom# dom dom dom dim dom dom dom dim dom dom I was on the berimbau tonight, but I filmed this to practice the pandeiro at home We continued learning … Read more
Mojubá Lesson – 13 April 2015 – Mestre Waldemar sequence to practice player 1: rabo de arraia, au over tesoura, land into negativa -> tesoura player 2: esquiva -> tesoura, face opponent landing from au, go under the tesoura Music lesson We are learning Mestre Waldemar da Paixão. Mestre Waldemar’s songs originate from literatura de … Read more
Mestre Acordeon B2B talk at SOAS – 09 April 2015 I started following http://b2bjogacapoeira.com/about/ (domain is parked) Mestre Acordeon’s Berkeley to Bahia journey with great interest back when it first started on Facebook, in 2013 – it combined two – well three – of my favourite activities. No, wait! When I start breaking it up … Read more
Mojubá Music Lesson (Atabaque) – 09 April 2015 Mestre Poncianinho showing some atabaque rhythms, and toque barravento on the berimbaus at the end. toque de barravento: dom#tsh#dom#tsh# dom#domdomdom (add extra dom for repique) Atabaque – 1st one: tum x5 ta x5 (I think…) I found this (in Portuguese) Que e Barravento – What is Barravento … Read more