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I'm Tulio Araujo and welcome to another...
...Pandeiro lesson!
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Today I'm gonna teach, finally
a rhythm that everybody ask me since I started to do these video lessons.
I'm talking about the Choro!
That's right. This rhythm that is a passion in Brazil
and an international passion too.
It's incredible how people around the world are falling in love with Choro more and more each day.
Just a tiny talk about the history
for you to understand how Choro was created.
Around 1805, 1806... in beginning of the 19th century
the Portuguese court, running away from Napoleon Bonaparte's french invasion
comes to live in Brazil, specifically in Rio de Janeiro.
When they arrived here
they found 300 years of cultural mixture
between our native Indians
and the African people brought as slaves.
They created things like the Lundú and Umbigada.
Together with the Portuguese elite
came the European musicians
who had a classical background
bringing things like Valsa, Polka and Ragtime.
From this fusion between Africa and Indians with Portuguese and Europeans
Choro was born.
Choro started to grow within this cultural cauldron
nothing gets more Brazilian than this.
Now you already know the history of Choro
let's see the notations, the hits and movements we must learn to play the Choro!
To start, 2 little guys that are always in our lessons
HI note on bottom and top
always extracted from the edge of the Pandeiro, so we don't get any unwanted LOW frequency...
Ok, we also have a LOW note on bottom, with the thumb
and LOW on top with these 2 fingers...
Wonderful, that's it: HI on bottom and top, LOW on bottom and top!
First thing we must know: Choro is a binary rhythm, 2 pulses in each bar
we have the 1...
...and 2.
What we're gonna do is put 4 notes in each pulse, the 16th notes
so where we have 1
2, we'll have
1, 2, 3, 4...
2, 2, 3, 4...
1, 2, 3 4...
2, 2, 3, 4...
1, 2, 3, 4...
2, 2, 3, 4... 1.
Ok, we'll play 8 notes per bar
2 groups of 4.
Let's start doing this:
Let's put a LOW on bottom, with the thumb
HI on top
HI on bottom
LOW on top in the 4th note
then we repeat the exact same thing in the 2nd pulse
LOW on bottom
HI on top
HI on bottom
and LOW on top.
The sound will be like this...
Look how it goes, really slow...
1...
2...
Could you notice I don't muffle, not in here or here
I let the LOW dings
because, for now, the lesson is only about where to put the LOW notes
Now I'll show how to muffle the leather so we can get a more Choro groove
muffling and opening in the right moments.
The secret is this:
During the 1st pulse
where we're hitting a LOW on the 1st and 4th notes
we'll keep muffling, during the entire pulse
here
or here
so the 1st pulse sounds like...
On the 2nd, we'll open the muffle during the entire pulse
So putting all together will sound like this...
Got it?
Let's practice, slowly...
1...
2...
Did you notice how it begins to sound like Choro?
As you practice and speed it up
it will become more understandable!
Ok, almost done.
Now I'm teaching you a tiny detail
that sounds like silly
but it's the most important thing
to transform this more "robotic" playing
into the real Choro playing!
I'm talking about the 2nd note we're hitting a HI on top
Aren't we doing 1st a LOW, 2nd HI, 3rd HI and 4th LOW?
So, we'll do this
accent the 2nd note we're hitting the HI on top.
When I say accent I mean to hit it stronger than the other notes
the LOW is already being accentuated
but the HIs are not
I want you to hit the 2nd note stronger
and the secret... I'm staying aside
the secret to hit this note
is to bring the Pandeiro
it starts horizontal and when you hit the 2nd note
it goes vertical
so I hit 1st with LOW
and when I hit the 2nd
I bring the Pandeiro to my hand.
Check this very important exercise, before we add the LOWs we've already learned
only HIs
accentuating the 2nd note...
1...
2...
1...
2...
1...
2...
1...
2...
1...
2...
1...
2...
1...
2...
1.
Got it?
Now we just need to apply the LOWs we've learned
muffling and opening the way we've learned
muffling on the 1st pulse
opening on the 2nd
and put all together!
I'm gonna play it slower, so you can follow me
1...
2...
Got it?
Now a little faster to become more groovy.
Check it out...
1...
2...
Got it?
It's so cool and it's important to listen to a sound we like to sing around here in Brazil...
Check it out...
Listen to this...
And that's it!
Choro is basically this
practiced several times
and the most important:
You must go to the "rodas"
to understand the "codes"
that Pandeiro connects with the Cavaquinho
that 7 strings Guitar has more freedom
the soloists has their own way to interprets melodies
that's what I call "codes" and it's crucial to understand it
we must learn first to construct
to then deconstruct and put our own identity
specially on the Pandeiro, one of the most important instruments on a "Roda de Choro"
Rarely you see a "roda" without a Pandeiro.
That shows how important the Pandeiro is.
And like I always say:
Find a musician or a teacher close to you.
Music is made from a human to another human
it's impossible to practice human connections without another human being
help a musician to live by his/her art!
I'll meet you in the next lesson and I hope you enjoy this!
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