Olodum Surdos
Surdo Patterns and Resources
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Afoxe Drum Break (cross sticking)
Caixas play basic funk pattern and rest of band play on the 2 and 4
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Reggae Surdo Drum Break
A call and response between Rep and Surdos
Trippin out on triplets. Here be the sound files for reference for all you surdo folk to strut your stuff in Samba Reggae Continue Reading →
Samba Reggae – Break 3 – Olodum
Samba – 3rd Surdo Very Fast & Very Slow
These vids contain the basic pattern for samba at the beginning and then some free style variations.
Funk for Surdos – Played during Fred’s Samba
We enter this pattern via the leader doing the “give-it-away” entry Continue Reading →
Sao Joao #1 Surdos
Disco – Funk for Surdos
Disco – Surdos
Mestre Fred – Nbr 3 Surdo Variations (We use in the S break)
In Bay Batucada the 3rd surdos play 2 and 3 part after the S-Break (On the leaders signal)
Full demonstration including hand signals in the video.
Ragga (Part 1) Pattern – Surdos only
Samba Teceira (3rd) Surdo Entry into Samba
In this reference clip from Monobloco, you can listen to your entry and push into Samba. Starts from the 0.35 second mark. Its exactly the same as how we do it. After that, its not the pattern you play in Samba, however enjoy listening to it and hearing a few 3rd surdo variations thrown in along the way.
Samba Teceira (3rd) Surdo Basic Pattern – Learn First
Use this video as an example of the basic 3rd surdo pattern for Samba. (What you play in Fred’s Samba)
From 0 to.44 shows the basic pattern for a nbr 3 surdo.
The rest of the video looks at some variations.