Check out what I wrote about swing and repique mor here.
Listen and Practice
IMO the only way to get good swing is to listen and practice a lot so I created some looped audio tracks for caixa em cima that I could play along with while I practiced.
I started sharing these tracks with my students and people from Portland Samba and now I'll share them with you.
I have tracks specifically for repique mor (below), caixa em cima, and general samba swing. The following are the repique mor tracks. These are all recordings of Cariocas (Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro) playing.
Repique mor tracks here.
Samba swing tracks here
*I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO USE REFERENCE RECORDINGS FROM CARIOCAS NOT GRINGOS.
Some gringos can swing their behinds off but using tracks from Rio players ensures that you will be hearing something true.
Renan Gohan is a director at Imperatriz Leopoldinense Samba School and the Mestre at Flamanguaca Samba School. I wrote about that here.
Caixa em cima from Mestre Renan Gohan
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