Bateria
The term bateria means “drum kit” in Portuguese and Spanish. In Brazil, the word is also used for a form of Brazilian samba band, the percussion band or rhythm section of a Samba School. It might also mean battery.
Mestre Cobra Mansa leading a Capoeira bateria.
Acadêmicos do Engenho da Rainha Bateria, samba school parade, 2010.
Baterias are also used to accompany the Brazilian martial art, capoeira.
Instruments
- Surdo (a large, low-tuned drum, the heartbeat of the samba)
- Caixa de guerra (a snare drum)
- Tarol (a smaller snare drum)
- Repinique (a small drum, twelve by fourteen inches)
- Chocalho (a rattle, made up of rows of jingles)
- Tamborim (a frame drum played with a flexible beater)
- Agogô (a double cow bell)
- Reco-reco (a notched stick played with a scraper)
- Pandeiro (a tambourine)
- Cuíca (a hollow drum-like instrument containing a bamboo stick that is rubbed to produce a squeaky sound)
- Clash cymbals
- Bass drums (optional and in some samba school drum lines)
gollark: ++help
gollark: I did `bot.help_command = commands.HelpCommand(verify_checks=False)` and apparently ++help now does literally nothing.
gollark: Another wonderful example of Discord.py's amazing error handling and documentation.
gollark: ++help
gollark: All fixed!
References
Sources and external links
- BateristasPT.com — Portuguese drummers community website
- "Samba Bateria Definition & terms" — Photos, videos & origins of the bateria terminology within the samba-schools environment at Brazil's carnival
- "Hello, Bateria!" — introduction by Marinilda Carvalho, provided by sambaparty.com
- Sounds of baterias — The Brazilian Percussion Site
- A baterias website in spanish — A large community of drummers in Latin America
- Play yourself a samba school drums section — An animation that lets you conduct the samba
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.