Tone wrote:I am not going to bother answering Leedy, really not worth it.
I will just add some information from a beginner who has only been playing 37 years and lives in the country and actually plays the rhythms in the ceremony.
Samba de caboclo is not a rhythm, it is generic name for the ceremony.
A festa de caboclo is a particular ceremony dedicated to american-indians gods/orixas.
The rhythms being played are basically the same as Angola : Cabula, Congo and Barravento but played much faster and with different variations especially the rumpi in Cabula. Also the rum tends to play different phrases because of the very fast tempos.
The lyrics are in Portuguese as opposed to Yoruba for the candomblé.
There are lots of difference in the event as well. The terreiro is decorated with leaves and branches and the filhos de Santos wear a lot of feathers (to symbolise the forest). They also drink a special wine that brings the whole thing to a quite hectic pace (there is no drugs nor drink in Candomblé normally except for us Alabés and Ogas).
Some of the lyrics in all rhythms use the word samba to call for merrying.
After the ceremony there is sometimes a Samba de Roda being played which is a secular and modified version of Cabula and that were the rhythmic side of Samba comes from. So it can add up to some 24 hours of playing with almost no interruption! ( we take turns though).
Anyway that's the way it is in Brazil, now in Pennsylvania it might be a different thing.
JohnnyConga wrote:Hi Niall I picked that up back in the 60's on playing a Samba on conga drums..as long as the tones are on +1 +2 it works..Patato played it that way as well and a few others back then...it's OL Skool!..my Brother!...Happy Holidays to u and yours over there....
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