Todays posting will be two different video clips for your viewing pleasure.
Number 1 is a sampling from a lesson I took on Friday. For the lesson, two of our teachers, Eduardo Santos and Bira brought one of their proteges, Bruno to help in the lesson. Bruno may only be 17 but he plays like a total beast. He helped to demonstrate many different rhythms that I was learning. During that lesson we were using djembes to focus different afro-brazilian rhythms. As an educator, its been interesting to note the differences in student/teacher relationships here. As far as I can tell this far, there tends to be more apprentice style relationships here. We’ve seen so many young kids learning informally by watching rehearsals and jumping in from time to time as opposed to taking lessons. This way of learning is common in the states as well, but seems to be prevalent here. Anyway, what makes this lesson so special is what ensued after the one on one portion. We had a full on djembe jam session for about two hours straight. All these drummers kept coming to the lesson and jumping in and we went around the circle trading solos over and over while occasionally trying different tempos and different grooves. In this clip you can hear all of us taking a solo. l learned so much by sitting with all these masters and taking some baby steps of my own.
The next clip is a video we made this morning of a kid demonstrating his skills on the street. We were just leaving Gabi’s house after finishing our first lesson and we bumped into 8 year old Vito who said he was a drummer. We asked if he could show us some grooves and he obliged, all on a plastic bucket. Pardon my french, but we think this boy is badass.
Until next time, and remember, feel free to comment!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment