Check out my post on playing caixa em cima and listen to the practice tracks here.
Check out my post on playing repique mor and listen to the practice tracks 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 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 general samba swing (below). These are all recordings of Cariocas (Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro) playing.
*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.
Samba School Vila Isabel
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