How To Play Samba on Congas

Woooo today's video was fun...
Sorry for the long video, but this pattern is somewhat complex and I wanted to cover as many little details as possible.
Samba is such a vibrant and electrifying Brazilian pattern... And my friend Gary Sosias presented me this variation to share with you all and my goodness is it awesome! Thanks Gary for trusting me with this!
*TUTORIAL STARTS AT 5:43
I hope y'all enjoy this one. Tell me what you think...
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[@bmspence3409]

Skip to the tutorial......you must be joking.....I love the story. It"s all part of the education, part of the culture, passed on by a really top class story teller. Thanks for all your hard work and passion. Respect from Cape Town.

[@APercussionLife]

haha thank you!!!

[@paulboyter4153]

BM Spence awesome, South African fans growing 👍🏻

[@crismaracana2824]

Hey Eric, love your videos mano!!!!...I'm glad you did one on the samba as I am both Brazilian and Colombian. One of the great percussionists of the samba and other Brazilian rhythms on congas is Paulinho da Costa. His album "Agora" (1976), especially "Ritmo Number One", "Terra", and "Berimbau Variations" explores many different Brazilian rhythmical patterns on tumbadoras (ie cafezal , baião, etc.) His classical song "Toledo Bagel" combines both Samba and Salsa together. Another great Brazilian percussionist who is very underrated and not well known but who used tumbadoras extensively to replace Atabaque drums was Papete (Jose de Ribamar) who focused more on the folkloric traditions of the Northeast of Brazil (afoxe, timbor de crioula, maracatu, bumba meu boi, etc) especially from his home State of Maranhão. A great album to listen to from him is "Berimbau E Percussão" (1975). I would say those 2 along with Airto and Nana brought the "Brazilian Clave" into the popular spectrum of Latin percussion.

[@Oblentehands]

Gracias, Cris, for sharing this great knowledge! I am a hobby percussionist in Denmark, always looking for more inspiration. Enjoy!

[@crismaracana2824]

@@Oblentehands De Nada, Oblentehands! My pleasure! Keep up the good work!

[@javieraguilar8319]

I havent seen anything i regret seing from you. Thanks for all the time you put into it. May GOD bless you and your family at all times.

[@APercussionLife]

Thank you Bro! God Bless!

[@damionbujan6218]

In the early folk drumming traditions of Trinidad and Tobago, the drummers only had their homemade African drums, and to play Spanish, french and other influences of music these elders had to be very creative. We have a folk rhythm named samba, and it fits perfectly with what you are doing on the congas here... Great video. I'm definitely fitting this into a piece of drum music I'm putting together 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@bhakta949]

I'm an old park drummer who got to play in a band here on Hawaii, for years and just faked it for years so this is a great opportunity to improve the rythyms I just made up out of necessity so this is great ! and to learn combo heel toe leads and combos …..I"M NOT WORTHY!!! Thanks Eric You tha man bradah !! Mahalo ! (Thankyou) ALOHA !!!

[@malik19020]

Mereces todo mi respeto Eric. Contigo he aprendido mas que en toda mi vida de conguero. You are an amazing guy, man! By the way, el SORRY esta de mas. Cada pequena historia que cuentas en tus videos llega de verdad.

[@jameshannah655]

This was hard to get down, but i love it now that it’s starting to sound right!!!

[@lpsalsaman]

Eric really awesome story, you never know who can inspire you my friend! As to the pattern, this one I never heard before. Difficult but you got it, which is why your friend had you teach it, he knows you are that good Bro! Well done!

[@APercussionLife]

Thanks brother!

[@groovesultan]

Cool. You can see how your friend arranged for one player the parts played by several percussionists. I love seeing different approaches that work. Rhis groove is close to one of the samba "levadas" showed to me by an important percussion recoeding artist in Rio, who learned the grooves from Pirulito (RIP), the legend! Useful info...these grooves are not always played in the same direction. The phrasings of some tunes start on "three". Kind of like how you would play 2-3 vs 3-2 clave.

[@MrDoudou972]

I didn't know this version of samba! Thank you teacher, brother Eric! 🤗👍

[@APercussionLife]

Thank you!

[@javiercaro2031]

Pedazo de ritmo, gracias de nuevo por tus videos!!!

[@demekofreeman2393]

I love that this is one of the longest

[@APercussionLife]

Hahaha thanks! It's one of the hardest I've shown thus far.

[@waldemardelgado7593]

Way to go man! form Daytona Beach, Fl! It's great to keep this art alive. I play for fun and I go to a local place and the band leader lets me play on occasion, It's so fun!

[@WilOsorio]

Thank you so much for the Samba lesson!👊🏾

[@adamwilks]

Great story, rhythm and tutorial. Sambatastic. All the best Eric. Great work. :-)

[@bongoscongasantiquecashreg4544]

Eric, Looooove samba thanks for it! Enjoyed!!!!

[@aldrinm90]

Thanks for this Eric, definitely going to practice and master this since I play most on festival drumming..❤

[@JohnFKelly-jx2tk]

One of the coolest ritmos you shared, Me queme las manos tratando de tocarlo. So hot this Ritmo 😁 Thx!

[@APercussionLife]

Thanks bro!! haha

[@rubenpabloromero]

excelente tutorial eric! muy original esta manera de abordar el samba sigue explorando otros ritmos!

[@APercussionLife]

Gracias Ruben!

[@ivanlisboa6209]

Saludos Eric, muy creativo, muy sabroso, great rhythum to use in a band to spice things up. Love it. Thanks 4 showing it to us. Beautiful addition to anyone's repetuua. Ha ha, hope to play like u someday.LoL💯🎼

[@APercussionLife]

Yesss! Thank you!

[@MetroWord]

That pattern is fire!

[@APercussionLife]

Right!! Gary is crazy!!

[@RomanPercussion]

Gary is an animal!!! Awesome player and person, miss him a bunch. Eric, hope all is well bro! Hope to see you soon

[@MetroWord]

Sin miedo was solid. I saw them a couple of times when I was salsa dancing more frequently.

[@APercussionLife]

They were locked in man!

[@calvinclarke7990]

I love that samba groove 👍👍👍

[@APercussionLife]

Thank you!

[@leomarinm]

Saludos. Primero que todo quiero agradecerte porque tengo meses siguiendote y por lo practico de los tutoriales desempolve mis congas y he estado estudiando. A manera de sugerencia deberías acompañar los ritmos al final de los videos con algún tema famoso en la que el patrón pueda ser usado. Un abrazo y bendiciones. (estoy teniendo problemas con el tema 2/3 y 3/2 de los tumbaos, me encantaría que los videos de tumbaos tuvieran los dos enfoques o quizás un video dedicado a entender mejor como "partir" nosotros mismos los patrones para adaptarlos a una y la otra clave)

[@APercussionLife]

Buena la sugerencia mi hermano! Gracias!!!

[@seanhensel-coe7792]

Whoooooo! 🔥 this has fast become my most favourite groove of all time. Hot damn! Thanks Eric. Any chance of developing on this and doing some variations? Such a gorgeous groove!

[@user-qo1fg9bn8k]

Amazing!

[@raviwong813]

Love that❣️

[@josecorrea1504]

Great techniques.

[@atomicpimp344]

Nice man 👍

[@felipetorres5902]

Sabroso gracias Eric por compartir tu conocimiento . Me gustaría un vídeo de bossanova

[@alessioserafini4510]

Dear Eric, thanks for sharing like always. With all the due respect, since my percussion teacher he's Brazilian I would like to share one of his videos on how to play traditional samba with one conga. I thought it may help somebody. With all my humility and respect.

[@APercussionLife]

Please Do!!! Thank you!!

[@alessioserafini4510]

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[@thematrixcongaheat]

Nice bro!

[@Squirrelconga]

"it's starting to feel like it, huh?!" 💯

[@1327Fer]

Man I Know Gary, that's awesome love the story he's a great dude awesome conguero. You're still local? I live in silver spring would be cool to link up with ya brother.

[@emilioconguero9811]

the way you are his fan im your fan and would love to meet you one day im practicing almost every day with help of your videos. thanks bro

[@APercussionLife]

Thanks Emilio!

[@olowasegun6829]

You loving those Kachiro’s don’t you lol. They sound good

[@bongosabroso]

Niiiiice...has a Afro twist. Me guuuuustaaa

[@APercussionLife]

Yessss!!!

[@dreadmanlv6700]

Well samba is an Afro-Brazillian rhythm so it males sense

[@nicolasnoya8896]

Eric! you are a genius, but i have to say that this groove doesn´t sound like samba. I recommend to you to liste the rythms of Samba de Roda, and Samba duro, both played on the Atabaques and in the Timbal. They are better to play on the congas, has mucho more sense

[@ramonalfaro3252]

Great videos. Love your content. But sometimes I have a hard time following patterns. Have you ever seen tha Alan Dworsky book Conga Drumming. He has a symbol and grid system that makes it easy to map out and learn patterns.

[@josecarrionj.r.7486]

Did you see that!! Wooo

[@MrBboystan]

You maybe explained it in the beginning but sorry I skipped 😄 contrary to most of Samba rythmes adapted to congas who just do the continuum of repinique / caixa , it looks like the one you show is doing the 3rd surdo pattern (cortador ) maybe I’m wrong 😬

[@herbertpazvarela2221]

Eric I' like how you show who to play congas pattern

[@rickyx1364]

LMAO...Samba Mumba..😂 Great VooDouio.LMAO..^ Cinco 6/8 feel

[@APercussionLife]

hahaha thank you!

[@rickyx1364]

Hola Eric.. Very nice... hearing things again...lol.😜 6/8 bell? Peace Hermano.. "\/"

[@tanmoybanerjee4922]

Crazzzy! Sometimes it is sounding like 6/8 to Me!! Its 4/4 right Eric Sir?

[@APercussionLife]

This one is but it can be played in 2/4

[@tanmoybanerjee4922]

An example of 2/4 Please?

[@Squirrelconga]

In watching this again, the pattern seems very akin to an agogo bell pattern.

[@GuimaEsley]

ótimo trabalho!!

[@gregorypeck73]

Ritmo genial ! Pero , sin el afán de ofender . Creo que hay mejores patrones de samba en congas . Este que haces , se parece mucho al ritmo de cumbia colombiana. De cualquier manera agradezco tus vídeos ,ya que me sirven muchísimo para ampliar mi repertorio en ritmos ! Gracias bro !

[@APercussionLife]

Gracias hermano!

[@jovauri]

Estás equivocado. Quizás tienes la cumbia en la cabeza y a todo le encuentras ese ritmo. El patrón de samba que hace nuestro bro se ubica en los acentos correctos de la samba. Lo digo yo, que llevo años tocando con brasileños todo tipo de ritmos, desde Choro, Baião, Forró, Samba, etc. Saludos.-

[@gregorypeck73]

@@jovauri tienes razón con las acentuaciónes y es solo mi punto de vista . Saludos brother

[@jovauri]

@@gregorypeck73 Te vi tocando en un vídeo que tienes en youtube, algo de los Panchos. Tocas muy bien, mi estimado. Esa combinación de tumbadoras con bongós suena bien sabroso. Saludos.

[@gregorypeck73]

@@jovauri gracias brother! Saludos y aquí estamos.

[@1DayAsADog]

Learn partido alto, and own it on the congas. Or you can play the surdo pattern and a telecotco. Will sound much better. The easiest way would be learning samba de Roda And then translated it to your congas. I respect Eric, he’s a hell of a conguero. Perhaps because Afro Brazilian percussion is my roots, I feel comfortable to say. Learn samba de roda. You’ll understand the feel, maybe comeback to this partido alto like rhythm

[@cosmesilveira8019]

“Ooh oooo Aria laiô Obá obá obá Ooh oooo Aria laiô Obá obá obá” ❤️🇧🇷❤️🇧🇷❤️

[@fabianoqueiroz3707]

De onde veio esse samba aí brother? Falta muita coisa aí se for o ritmo brasileiro...

[@josepachecruz8832]

Thanks...its better if you ad a count or a clave

[@SS-nv6ih]

👍👍

[@juantellado9235]

Hey dude, I like your conga logo and it really looks like you, however, did you try to place your goatee style on the bottom side of the conga? I believe that would really make it look like you Bro! I mean I like the way the upper side represents you, however, adding the bottom part would really make it real! Let me know what you think OK?

[@vicksm]

Still waiting for your review of Aquabella. It's been about 4 months.

[@APercussionLife]

I understand. I try to cover a master conguero at least once a month... It takes me weeks to plan, hours to edit to deliver those videos, so it's not as easy as it may seem. But he will be covered. Francisco is an icon that needs to be discussed.

[@vicksm]

Thanks for responding.My uncle played Sax for Mongo early 60s band and both Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. Also Hugh Masekela. His last band was Roberto Rowena out of Puerto Rico. Mongo was my teacher but Patato was my idol.

[@dannyfrankel9339]

@@APercussionLife thats right!

[@olharsemsonhos]

Olá excelente vídeo, mas ... O samba é um ritmo binário... Eu sugiro que você comece estudando um ritmo chamado cabula , que é o samba original. Não está feio, mas não parece a forma brasileira de tocar samba nas congas. :)

[@DouradaBambina]

Sempre um critico nunca elogio sincero

[@gustavoperez1212]

Hola una consulta a que samba te refieres es samba brasileña ???

[@1DayAsADog]

Just learn a partido alto and added to your congas. This sounds like it was going there. Samba needs esse jeitinho brasileiro, suingue, ginga. Mas quase. Not to take anything away for Eric. He’s a monster on congas and great teacher. We’ve all learned one or 8 things from him.

[@alainhoarau3213]

Nice very nice not far from Mozambique rhytm

[@alverttomazariegos7440]

Lo tienes en español bro?

[@mishukat75]

5:53 The pattern starts

[@dilmarjk]

Não falou nada do Brasil e nem do Rio de Janeiro que é onde está a raiz do samba....

[@SS-nv6ih]

Anyone giving a thumbs down is a hater! Lol

[@olowasegun6829]

Samba ?

[@sebamurguero]

Samba brasilera?????? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@dougmac9267]

Nice video, but you don’t get into the meat of the instruction until 7.5 minute area.

[@sebamurguero]

Hablas mucho...

[@josecahuas9017]

muito fala e nada toca

[@ManuelLopez-nw8kx]

Almost six minutes into the video before you play. It's a 17 minute video with about 10 minutes of talking. Dude!

[@Maubere-reac]

Too much talking (n) (n)