Chords for Songo Drumming - Icanplaydrums.com

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_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G] Next we'll have a look at Songo and Salsa drumming.
This is a little bit different to all of the Samba and Bossa stuff we've looked at so far
because we're not actually using that Samba ostinato figure on the bass drum and hi-hat going. _ _ _ _
We actually do something a little bit different which I'll show you in a second, but this
is kind of Salsa and Songo drumming here. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [B] _ _ Okay, you can see that the bass drum is playing 1-e-and, 2-e-and, 3-e-and, 4-e-and, okay,
or if you were to do it over a bar of like half that speed it would be 1-2-and-3-4, 1-2-and-3-4,
and it certainly can be played that slow and written that way, in fact very often it is.
_ _ But I'm just going to teach you this stuff in sixteenths.
So let's think of that pattern as a sixteenth note figure.
What the bass drum is doing is it's not playing on beat 1 or 3, it's playing 1-e-and, 2-e-and,
3-e-and, 4-e-and.
Okay, it doesn't quite work if you do put the bass drum on 1 and 3, it definitely doesn't
work if you do like a Samba.
_ That doesn't work, so we're going 1-e-and, 2-e-and, _ 1-e-and, 2-e-and, 3-e-and, 4-e-and,
1 _ -3-1 _ -3.
_ _ Okay, so you can see that it's kind of falling off the beat rather than with the Samba stuff
it was kind of really reinforcing the beat, landing on it.
1-2-3.
So one really common thing to do with the snare drum just to round that bass drum would
be to play on 1-and _ and _ then 2-e-and-a on the snare as well. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Em] So 1-and-a, 2-and-a, 3-and-a, 4-and-a, 1.
Now with all that going on, _ _ _ _ _ we need something to kind of give us a reference point of the pulse.
So what you probably want to do with the right hand is play either on the hats, shoulder
on the edge, bell, once again shoulder, _ [F] or, and I'm going to do it on the cowbell, _ _ just
play really solid quarter notes.
Okay, it doesn't have to [B] be fast, it has to be super, super in time because there's so
much stuff falling around the beat that, listen to it without the pulse. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ It doesn't have any groove to it yet.
We have to kind of tie it all in together with some kind of pulse.
We'll play it on the cowbell.
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_ _ _ _ _ Okay, immediately it actually starts to sound really cool and the syncopation really comes
alive because we know where the actual pulse is and where everything's falling around.
So that's a basic pattern, we can add other things in like ghost notes, extra accents,
you can move it around the toms as well. _
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