While I’m surely no Marcus Santos, my students, who skew at least a dozen years younger than his — and are much more likely to be sitting on mom’s lap while in class — can still start their samba drumming careers with a bang. We start very simply, dividing up the most basic rhythmic tasks among the crowd, assigning some to be surdos to lay down the bottom of the beat others to make melodies and solo to their heart’s content. With little kids and their grown-ups drumming we make for a musical mess, but a good one. As the saying goes, every walk of a thousand miles starts with a surdo.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site and are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our curriculum offerings and how to become one of our teachers. That said, if you were on ExploreEverywhere, you clicked to find more information about a song or lesson, and landed here, you’re in the right place! Some links may be broken and a detail or two may be out of date…but close the popup window and enjoy!
