Chords for Samba Bass Lines with Flavio Lira

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_ _ _ _ [A] Hey [N] there, my name is Flavio Lira and I'm here at the headquarters of Lesson Face in
New York City _ and today we're going to learn some samba.
_ _ Samba is a music that's generated from percussion instruments.
_ The bass came much later, _ so everything we do in the bass is derived from the percussion
instruments _ such as the surdo, the pandero.
The bass line we're going to play is based off of the surdo pattern, _ _ which is like this. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Alright, how do we do that on the bass?
_ _ _ We play usually, _ most of the time we're playing one and five.
_ _ And since, as I sang, _ _ _ _ _ you want to have a low note here, _ so we use the five on the lower
[A] string, just like this.
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This will be beats one and three, if you're singing four four. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ And also, _ you're going to see that I'm adding a ghost note in there.
_ Why is that?
Also because of the surdo.
The surdo player is going to _ _ _ _ play_ _ _ _
_ _ _ What _ is that?
That is to stop the head from vibrating before the next stroke. _ _ _
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And that also helps keep time. _
And we're going to add that ghost note the same way. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Alright, _ _ for this example I'm going to use the progression of a song that _ most of you
will probably know. _ _ _
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Right, simple enough, huh? _ _
This, I would say, is the essence, is the very essence of the surdo, the bass playing
_ for the basic samba. _ _
You can work on that and have that very _ solid, _ then you can go in different directions.
_ _ _ Another one is partido alto.
_ _ Partido alto, the pattern that we're going to play, comes from the pandeiro.
_ _ The pandeiro, it will play like this. _ _
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Let's check that out with a metronome. _ _ _
_ _ So I have a metronome here in 85, _ _ _ and that will be the half note in 85.
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This rhythm is pretty syncopated, as you will notice.
So you might want to clap that with me for a little while to get used to it. _ _ _ _
One, two, three, four. _
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_ _ _ can check out below the link for the PDF with all the explanations and written lines. _ _ _
Now I'm going to play the same song we played before, but in a partido alto view.
Check it out. _
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_ _ One, two, [F#] three, four.
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[G#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _
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[G#] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
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Ok, so here we were very _ connected to the partido alto pattern.
We're just going to go, con, con, con, con, con, con, con, con, con. _
But _ where the bass players usually stay, it's right in the middle, _ _ _ _ inside of that _ very _ _ basic line,
which is a pan, kakon, pauda, _ kakon, _ and the syncopated version. _ _
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_ _ So _ _ now I'm going to show how you can create variations based on these two grooves that we learned,
_ and play around with that. _
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_ _ _ _ [A#] One, two, [A] three, four.
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[G#] One, two, _ [F#] three, [E] four. _
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[F#] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I hope you enjoyed and got to learn some Brazilian styles, some samba, partido alto styles.
If you want to learn more about that and other Caribbean [A] Brazilian styles,
feel free to book a lesson with me on Latin Faith.
Thank you. _
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