Play Sambingo rhythms online

Here's an experiment. Below are links to a web page that will play the rhythms for you:

Rhythm 1 A-go-go

Rhythm 1 Tamborim

Rhythm 2 A-go-go

Rhythm 2 Tamborin

Once you get to the page you have to click the Play button in the upper left corner of the page.

And here are the combined rhythms
Rhythm 1
Rhythm 2 

I'm not crazy about how these combined rhythms sound. To my ear I can only hear the tamborim when both play.

3 Practice MP3s from Beau

Beau has created three practice MP3s:

• Yankadi
• Akongkong
• Lamba

Dick Atlee also has a page for Beau's MP3s here.

Break 3

I've put the whole Break 3 sequence into the Monkey Machine online drum machine, just like I did with the 6/8 rhythm. To try it out, here's what to do:

1. Select and copy the text below.

2. Go to
http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/monkey2.html

3. In the new window, select File/Import beat from text... on the menu bar

4. Past the text you copied into the text area & click the Import
button at the bottom.

You should hear the whole Break 3 sequence: some bars of Rhythm 1, the whistle signals (played on a cymbal since Monkey Machine doesn't have a whistle), Break 3 itself (cerdos and the rhythm for the Samba, Samba Hey! chant), the whistle signals to switch to Break 2, Break 2 itself and then back to Rhythm 1. (and repeat).

Have a listen and let me know what you think.

-Michael

Fwd: 6/8 rhythm online for practice

We worked on the 6/8 rhythm at practice today and made progress. I've
found practicing at home helpful and here's an easy way to do it:

1. Copy the text between the lines below:
----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<style version="2.0">
  <bpm>63</bpm>
  <shuffle>0</shuffle>
  <patterns>
     <pattern id="0" length="12">
        <drum id="0">000200000202</drum>
        <drum id="6">101000101000</drum>
        <drum id="9">202022020202</drum>
     </pattern>
  </patterns>
</style>
----------------
2. Go to
http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/monkey2.html

3. In the new window, select File/Import beat from text... on the menu bar

4. Past the text you copied into the text area & click the Import
button at the bottom.

You should hear the cerdo & tamborin parts for the 6/8 rhythm.

(More information on the drum machine here:
http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/ )

Samba Hey-
-Michael

6/8 Sambingo Rhythm

6/8 Sambingo Rhythm

X-X|---|X-X|--- High Surdo
---|X--|---|X-X Low Surdo
X-X|-XX|-X-|X-X Tamborin
X-X|---|-X-|-X- High Bell
---|-XX|---|X-X Low Bell

Printable Rhythms

(The surdos for Rhythm 1 are wrong. I double timed them by mistake. I fixed them below, but you still can't easily print that.)


The last post looks good but the colors don't print. This should correct that.

Rhythms

Words for rhythm 4

Wendy discovered that the tamborin for rhythm 4 fits perfectly to the words:

Obama, Obama, Barack O - bama; Obama, Obama, Barack for - me.

• The first O is before the beat, the first bam being on the beat.
  

Thus inspired I came up with the less controversial words for the
surdos (which I had not previously been able to conjure up without
help from my Palm):

I have - to go - to - sam - ba - now; I have - to go - to - samba now.

You can match them up to the chart here:
http://sambingo.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-44-rhythm.html

Rhythm 4 .pdf

Attached is the new rhythm 4 as a PDF file. Let me know if you have better luck printing it.

-Michael

New 4/4 Rhythm

Full size here, and here are page 1 and page 2.

Hydrogen drum machine software

I came across Hydrogen, a free drum machine program for Windows, Mac and Linux. I think it could be helpful for learning new rhythms. While I'll admit I'm fairly handy with computers, it took me only a few hours to download, install, get the hang of it and recreate a few of our current rhythms.

Click here to hear what I've done so far.

You can download Hydrogen here.

We can share the Hydrogen files - you can load these into Hydrogen and then modify them. Here's the file for the .mp3 above and here's the cerdos for the 6/8 rhythm. If folks are interested I can bring my computer to practice sometime and show how it works. Note that I've substituted instruments. For instance, I've not yet found high and low cow bells or how to make them myself.

6/8 Rhythm

A short mp3 file of the 6/8 rhythm from Jim's drum program is here.

You can play it by clicking the little blue arrow icon.