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09 March 2015 – Urban Ritual Roda + Pandeiro On Saturday 07/03/2015 I went to the Urban Ritual open roda for the first time. This roda happens on the first Saturday of every month, organised by Mestre Fantasma and his students at the ‘Corbet Place Bar and Lounge’ in East London, from 18:00. It’s an occasion … Read more
25 Feb 2015 São Bento Grande Variation In tonight’s class we practiced this variation, amongst other things. Mestre Poncianinho was playing the berimbau extra amazingly tonight, it was an audio-visual treat!!! Shame I didn’t record the class!!! tsh#tsh# dim dom dom x2 (São Bento Grande basic) tsh#tsh# dim dom dom domtss# dim dom dom First … Read more
Mojubá lessons – 16 to 22 February 2015 This week was all about s-dobrado Monday: was taught to look at hand when doing it, and also various techniques for teaching nervous system to learn it. This is what it will look like after I have practiced it for hours and hours! Can a 43 year … Read more
Orquestra de Berimbaus do Morro do Querosene I was searching for the different types of berimbau arrangements in the roda as a result of yesterday’s music class – The first one being gunga: angola, médio: são bento pequeno, viola: são bento grande + improv. when I found this website: https://dinhonascimento.com.br/orquestradeberimbaus/ Translation of first 5 paragraphs: … Read more
10 Feb 2015 – Berimbau notation on Berimbau… On Sunday, after Capoeira class, we were talking about Capoeira notation, and I asked Paula to write Iúna down for me, using Ponciano’s symbols – as I didn’t know how to represent the bit in bold in his notation: dom tsh#tsh# dom#tss# dom#tss# x2 So we moved … Read more