Berimbau solo

[@landryironside2448]

When one cowboy play the berimbau from brazil! Congratulations, man! Fantastic!

[@MidlifeCrisisTactical]

Please don't ever unpost this. I've gone back to this vid so many times in the past couple years. So awesome.

[@mugglesmonster]

You need to teach Rob Scallon how to properly play this

[@bobsabet7391]

mugglesmonster dude, I was at his video right now thinking that he should really learn how to play it.

[@franciscorosasbonfanti7659]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6KtqZ6IrM1sfbM

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

That is a FABULOUS video of Santiago Vasquez. Thank you so much for sharing it! I love his music, with or without Puente Celeste. So glad to catch this.

[@palheta82]

hello, same question as satellite wish. I'm currently looking for the best mic to amplifiy a berimbau. Do you happen to have any recommendation. Great playing !@@GuyMendilowEnsemble

[@lilithmatriarch7509]

🤣🤣🤣 Yeah dude I was all about that video until I saw how it's actually played and now I cringe every time! 🤣 Love me some Rob Scallon but that shit ain't berimbau.

[@MetalMonkey1453]

I've been a capoeirista for about a year now... I can do an S dobrado backflip landing in a face kick, but can still barely maintain a beat for traditional Angoles songs. Cudos, mate, that's some seriously impressive stuff.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Cheers!

[@noahvale939]

Cudos?

[@joshmarshak3157]

Such an underrated instrument

[@EdgarTheRaven]

Easily the best berimbau track I've listened to. So interesting. I love this hectic, funky feel you gave to it.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Cheers, EdgarTheRaven! Much appreciated.

[@EdgarTheRaven]

Don't mention it. It was a pleasure to listen. If I ever do a movie I'm going to contact you for this one;)

[@franciscorosasbonfanti7659]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6KtqZ6IrM1sfbM

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

That is a FABULOUS video of Santiago Vasquez. Thank you so much for sharing it! I love his music, with or without Puente Celeste. So glad to catch this.

[@archihappy2128]

14 years after this music is the best❤

[@breakbeat_hardcore]

if humans had a mating call, this is what it would sound like

[@MrAgenorius]

Very nice! Funky and with a taste of Drum N Bass!

[@Dragonan]

Muito bom! Abraços do Brasil.

[@guymendilow7844]

muito obrigado!

[@Digaoelmestre]

vai ser regional?

[@thomas5585]

That reverb is amazing.

[@NPrescott]

imagine if this was mixed live with a didgeridoo!!

[@guillemamchur986]

Nathan Prescott You are right!

[@NathanDupont-uu2hh]

Very impressive ! I didn’t know it was possible to produce so much different sound with this instrument

[@mjremy2605]

You made it come alive, so beautiful! Thank you!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Cheers, MJ!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@thethirteenthraven: The amplification is something I've been working on for a while. The long and short of it is that I have an inexpensive lavaliere mic inside the gourd as well as a piezzo pick-up, mounted to a metal saddle (with leather on the inside, to dampen the metallic ring). These run into a small mixer and blended there. I add a bit of EQ to bring out the gourd thump (the bass drum sound) and compression to even the thump with the string sound. It's a miracle it doesn't explode.

[@hunterdunning1776]

You wrote this to me 8 years ago, answering every question I had left to ask. I just felt equal to you for a moment when it came to skill on the instument... still give you the nod for my own inspiriation.

[@kylrapture]

This literally sent me back 12 years, back to when I met a good friend of mine for the first time. My first ever time trying Capoeira:) Thanks for the memory lane trip on a Sunday Morning sir:)

[@josimarjose2020]

O Melhor tocador de berimbau que já vi

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Muito obrigado

[@jmdi2703]

I'm a Turkish but I very love Capoeira Barimbau music. ❤🎉

[@jacksonsantos5457]

Cara!mano desde quando ouvi o som do berimbau,eu imaginava um som elétrico,gostei que venha mais.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@cobaiatemorozo yeah!! Did you know the musical bow is not just from Brazil though? It's the oldest and most common string instrument on the planet. Just about every place that ever used a bow and arrow (short bow, long bow, etc) also made music with it. That said, I did learn to build in Brazil. These ones were built in Salvador. I got my start through Capoeira...

[@saftovooey4569]

Call Max Cavalera.

[@mramireztribe]

I work with Max.......good idea lol

[@ВикторПрокофьев-щ6ы]

Трансформация)) музыка уносит просто космос)) буду на поле тренироваться в тумане))

[@magnobuenoandrade1643]

Aqui maguinho mestre de capoeira ... Abraço do Brasil 🇧🇷 Perfect

[@Caligari...]

You the real deal bro ! Thank you !

[@larissanogueira5545]

Coisa mais linda de instrumento

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Hey, thanks all for checking this video out. Had no idea it would get watched at all. I feel like I owe you guys another one now...this feels like a long time ago. Thanks for taking the time to view.

[@Alex-cf6sn]

Hey, i really love that track!! I have a question and i know that it is a lomg time ago but could play the same pattern on the berimbau without the rattle but only with the stick and make another video? I would really love to use it to make a beat for my work in school.

[@DiveCrewCanada]

Absolutely phenomenal!!!

[@WayneKSeymourIIIProgrammer]

Truly talented

[@thetwistedsamurai]

This is definitely the most beautiful song I've heard played on this instrument yet.

[@re16in]

I haven't found a solo better than this one. This is fantastic!!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Wow, thanks!

[@deciogunga]

Muito bom!!! É um berimbau de respeito. Grande som...

[@kovalenkoart]

волшебство обертонов) просто Царь!)

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Hey, just wanted to thank you guys for the great comments. Who knew! This video was almost an after-thought. Anyway, much appreciated. Cheers! Been meaning to post a follow up (I think I promised that to someone) and will...just been so busy...like all of us

[@TeslaTiamat]

More! MORE! Please, more!

[@guymendilow7844]

I'll work on it - thanks for requesting!

[@RhythmAddictedState]

This could be an awesome, brutal metal track.

[@FloridianBarit0ne]

On it. 🤘🏻

[@mts9266]

Attidute by sepultura uses this instrument as the intro

[@joshuacruz5436]

Goes really nicely to Seether's "Remedy"

[@tamarcimenian3562]

Fantastic! The berimbau is such an interesting instrument; I'd love to learn to play it myself! :)

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

It IS a fascinating instrument, with rich history. The musical bow itself is amazing.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@Saxon72 Cool! As far as I knew this was straight improv, as I was making it up as I went. But you know how the mind works, especially subconsciously. Never heard of Sepultura. Can you point my way to them? Especially the album of which you speak? Cheers, GJM

[@Katzenjammer58]

Funkayyy!! I like the percussive effect with the gourd. Nice technique.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@JustAluno Gourd is just a medio. I do tune it low, though. I and a luthier created our own tuning system, and have been experimenting with different ways to get the instrument lower. Man, I could really use the capoiera world! That's where I got my start but it's been a long time since I've played. Axe!

[@Marcyvom]

This awesome! It’s a different approach from the common rhythms of the Brazilian culture. Fukien A bro! I love it!

[@manodura8132]

Exelente Maestro !!!

[@katharoszoe]

Bravo! This sounds great! Wow, so cool!

[@cleydsonmoreno8517]

Caramba! Ele precisa de uma aula do pessoal, os quais são mestres da arte, toca bem diferente do que a Bahia apresenta! Está bem divergente do berimbau tocado por nós aqui.

[@felipealcabri]

Não existe um único jeito de tocar um piano, nem um único jeito de tocar violar e qualquer outro instrumento. Por que o berimbau só pode ter 1 estilo e o cara provou que é possível fazer música do jeito diferente da capoeira? Se está divergente é porque é outro estilo.

[@deko3693]

Oxe precisa de aula KKK só tem um jeito é

[@felipealcabri]

@@deko3693 O cara claramente está mostrando que não kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@JoseSilva_]

Ficou muito bom, parabéns.

[@Arthur0743]

Essa fera manja dos paranaue

[@kloug2006]

Best sounding berimbau ever.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

That's very kind of you to write. Thank you. And also - there are some truly remarkable players out there...a good opportunity to listen

[@tarikt3910]

Waauuw, crazy Performance and flow!!!

[@jromo7007]

I was waiting for him to play for about a minute until I realized he was playing the whole time. Thought he was just waving his hand around

[@zapbeep8640]

delete urselef damn you’re slow

[@frishavocadoo]

A very different style from usual capoeira songs, very nice!

[@warrend3557]

Sounds like The roots- the seed 2.0

[@antoniojoseflorenciodesouz2884]

berimbau é bom demais

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@MrJDFrog No, haven't got anything online about this. We're using a bass tuner mounted on an additional piece of wood and an ebony cap with a wire groove. I think you can see this up top. The most difficult thing about fashioning this is that luthiers' tools are generally designed to work with things are that flat or round whereas the biriba wood is neither, and each piece is different. So creating a vice that will allow one to work on it is half the story! Thanks for yer kind words, Good luck!

[@baixinhoFDB]

Wow, awsome playing!

[@zetrollolololol4163]

by far the best on youtube

[@sarahhavillamelooliveira5825]

Amazing piece, cheers from Brasil!

[@lilithmatriarch7509]

Holy crap man, what a flex! 🤯💪💯

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Cheers! Thank you for listening

[@hemersonresplande2123]

Você é muito bom. PARABÉNS.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Muito obrigado!

[@SONGSTICKS]

Superb !!! I bought one of your albums a few years ago and it's in there with the favourites.

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Cheers! Really appreciate that. We just released a new one in October, our best to date without a doubt. guymendilowensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-forgotten-kingdom-music-from-the-show-2

[@pitshy2486]

that's actually insane!

[@robertedwards1240]

Dude, that rocked. You're the bomb!

[@erikvanern6178]

Wow! Very cool!! I must learn how to make one!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@001Tara1 yes, nowadays the arame is from the inside of a car tire. You can also use piano wire but it doesn't sound quite the same. Tire wire is difficult to get out of the tire - it takes a lot of work with a knife. You can get old tires at a junk yard, or just find them on the side of the road somewhere. Or your neighbor's driveway. Don't tell them I said this.

[@JackyRowe]

Wow, you can really rock out on one of those!! I'm getting one, it's got to be done!

[@paulchristie8452]

love it! If you had more of then by your side in different tunings, you could cover a shred guitar solo.

[@Marcyvom]

I get high sometimes sometimes, quite often actually hahaha, and I just play with my berimbau to see where it leads and I related so much with your stuff bro. It’s beautiful bro! Tks! Best of luck to you!

[@coffeekissesxoxo6009]

Amazing love how you played with the sound so good.

[@toniwalter2911]

this is amazing

[@MisterBaAcKiTcH]

Out of this world. Thank you.

[@dagda1180]

Holy crap, man! This sounds amazing!

[@KAINMUSIC]

This is amazing.

[@PeaceWings]

Beautiful!!!!

[@eyeofthebeholder_]

I didn't know Vigo Mortensen had a KZbin channel

[@guymendilow7844]

The eye of the beholder. This is one of my all time favorite comments. Thank you!

[@saftovooey4569]

Him and Buckethead actually did a few albums together.

[@brittneyleahc]

This is awesome! We are reading the book Out of Many Waters and it mentions this instrument. There is a Wiki for it but it is much easier to get a sense of what it is, how it sounds, and how it's played when you can actually see it being done! Thanks!!!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

+Brittney Clay Cheers, Brittney. Here's a link to a great article: www.nscottrobinson.com/berimbau.php My playing in this video is actually quite un-traditional in many ways because of the way the instrument is tuned and amplified. Check out Nana Vasconsuelos, or Ramiro Musotto for some more inspiration

[@mnikalaev]

Love it

[@silviopqueiroz]

Diferente! Muito criativo! Parabéns!

[@keyccrazy]

You have everyone beat at this berimbau! The way you make world rhythms happen with that instrument is amazing. Never saw anyone better! Way Cool!

[@guymendilow7844]

Thanks!

[@Nemo-vm2yb]

Amazing music! Kudos!

[@raymelissamaliarinmoonsun8930]

Strangest morning ever, you rock dear:) This melody inside is beautiful, I hope you are doing well :)

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Thank you!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

@TheSiteOffice wow! Thanks for the great post!! Definitely made me smile. So, you got it right man - the berimbau is the principal instrument of capoeira. But as an instrument it is also much older and very much more prolific - the musical bow is the oldest and most common string prototype on the planet! No, not a cowboy. Sometimes I feel like I herd cats though. Cat boy? As for playing naked: they don't allow that sort of thing on KZbin. You'll have to come to a show to see for yourself.;-)

[@SailoDFelt]

Dude, Rob Scallon need you as his teacher right now

what thee fuuck this is dope

[@cristhianmac6774]

boa moleque, com o caixa de som ele consegue fazer o som da cabaça soar mais alto pra frente e a segunda corda sincronizou bem a primeira

[@belladeanie718]

This is amazing!!!

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Nice. Rockin the berimbau.

[@tarikt3910]

Please more from this Instrument

[@felipevenancio]

super cool. Bahia forever

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Sim, irmao!

[@superskolinskolin2423]

This sounds exactly like oggy und die Kakerlaken ❤

[@diancomo]

Un sonido del alma, para el alma y con el alma. Felicidades. Como me gustaría aprender a tocar, besar, amar, trasgredir, oler, violar este instrumento para sacar de el su esencia.

[@MrJDFrog]

Do you have any details on the tuning mechanism modifications you made posted online anywhere? Listening to this has got my inspirational juices flowing this morning! I'm especially impressed by the way you used the mic stand to stand up the bass tone berimbau, as this has got me thinking of all kinds of possibilities with a couple tuned berimbau on stands for adding grace notes. Thanks so much for putting this out there.

[@Phernandustrong]

A CONGRATILATIONS FROM BRASIL!!!

[@mrsnobodywtf8677]

Awesome dude!

[@daveknight1775]

awesome!

[@Slash41251]

The berimbal Rock !! cara mt manero!! ganhou um instcrito

[@MrSayonara76]

Very very awesome!

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Thank you very much!

[@hunterdunning1776]

This was the first lesson I was ever given. Learn to play the berimbau like this. Only later did I learn that this wasn't the ABC's. Can we talk years later? Please? Honestly, I dont think anyone can teach me to play this better? But I think I can? Try me?

[@GuyMendilowEnsemble]

Hunter Dunning Hi Hunter: it would be a pleasure to speak with you. Please write to me at [e-mail] and we’ll set up a time to connect.

[@japabest]

So good ,for sound Track!!!

[@Z0MGH4X]

Very interesting instrument indeed.

[@ConnorGhostHeart]

Moto bene! Gratsias.

[@allanthompson9695]

Hope you got the message from the other video, Excellent.

[@guymendilow7844]

Hi Allan: apologies, I did not get the message. Can you please re-send?