Friday Roar game & Thursday's rehearsal

Ha - after a win last Saturday it's on again against Wellington this Friday, 8pm! We'd need to be there 7.00pm.
Please let me know if you'd like to play!

Also, please note Roar will be doing a video shoot this Thursday at our rehearsal. I hope you can all make it, and it would be great if you could all come maybe a little bit earlier (so before 7.30, ideally before 7pm for some pagode) so we have everyone there without interruptions.

Could everyone wear a Roar shirt Thursday night please? If you have a spare one please bring as well for those that don't have one.

PS: this Thursday's class is free to all!

Details for Friday:

• Jeans + Roar shirt
• Game starts 8pm, but we have been asked to play 7.30pm - 7.50pm outside as well
• Please be there 7pm
• Gather at Inform car park

Remko - Repinique

Josh - Repinique

Darren - 1st Surdo (or 3rd - up to you)

Siobhann - 1st Surdo

Warren - 3rd Surdo

Elwin - 3rd Surdo

Melanie - 2nd Surdo

Leesa - Shaker

Paul - Caixa

Denis - Caixa

Cheers

Remko

Novos Baianos

I have been listening to this pearl of a group for about two years now, and I thought I would share...the ideal combination between late 60's rock and traditional samba...These ones are pure samba, but check out the other videos! (and other artists on the channel "Arquivo", shows from Brazilian 70's)

Pedro Camacho, the new Brisambista

Hello guys, my son Pedro was born yesterday.

I am sorry I haven't been in touch, life has been crazy since we left Australia (new job, new apartment, new life etc).

I miss you all and I hope to see you soon, I would love to play samba with you again at suncorp stadium. My contact details are:

[contact details removed by Remko because of risks of identity theft. Please contact Remko if you want Fernando's email or mobile]

Cheers

Fernando

Roar game tomorrow

Hi all, here are the details for tomorrow:

• Please gather at Inform carpark opposite vehicle entrance on Castlemaine Rd at 7pm
• Jeans, Roar shirt if you have one. We're supposed to get new ones but don't count on it!

Remko (repinique)

Darren (1st surdo)

Gail (2nd surdo)

Warren (3rd surdo)

Angus (3rd surdo)

Denis (caixa)

Paul (caixa)

Miki (ganza)

Patty (ganza/agogo)

Lynne (ganza)

See you there!

Wow!!!!!!

What happened tonight???? Suddenly, the moment was there: perfect harmony, steady beat, nice and fast, but not too loud. I really really enjoyed that! Very good playing everyone, congratulations!

Tonight's special instructions

Darren should be back tonight, so from 6.40pm tonight: surdo for beginners!

Roar Season

Hi all, as discussed before, this year we more than likely will play all Roar home games at SunCorp Stadium! We are still finalising some of the details, and I will share this with you when finalised, but in the meantime: the first game is this Saturday 21 August, kick off 7.30pm. It's against Sydney, so a big game.

For those of you that are worried about the response of some individuals in the crowd, this year the Roar clearly advertised which section has been designated for drums, and 12 rows have been blocked off just for us and for people working together with us. So there should be a much more positive vibe.

Could you please let me know asap if you are interested in playing this Saturday?

Thanks
Remko

PS: also - vuvuzelas have been banned, for those of you that were concerned...

Rosa Passos grooving

Great studio session to get the Brazilian groove ;)

Tonight

Tonight's rehearsal:

• 6.40pm - 7.00pm: on special request from Angus: "surdo for dummies". Focus will be on how the surdos 'sit' in the rhythm with the cavaquinho
• 7.00pm - 7.30pm: pagode
• 7:30pm - 9:30pm: bateria rehearsal. NOTE: the Roar will come with some flag bearers to rehearse some aspects of what we try to achieve in the Stadium this year. I'll just incorporate this into our normal practice.

More on the Roar games very soon by the way.

See you there!

How to make a Bombproof Cuica for Denis.

"Punch a little hole in the top of the tin can. Put some rubber cement, or hot glue, on the tip of a bamboo skewer. Insert from the inside of the can and then add a dab of the cement on the piece of stick extending through the top of the can. When it hardens, you can clip off the sharp point sticking out of the can top. Wet your sponge, grasp the stick and move it up and down. Make the higher note by pressing down on the can cover." From Stan-the-Cuica-Man .

West End Live

Remko, are we playing at West End Live? samba in the street? I know you don't like hippies, but eh.

Tomorrow's class

Just a short note that tomorrow I won't be able to do the 6.40pm-7pm 'special interest' session.

The rest of the class will be as normal, with pagode starting 7pm-ish and the main course at 7.30pm

See you there!

GIG Sunday

This Sunday is the Music Extravaganza at my daughters kindy.

The kids love it loud and fast, so samba should be perfect. The festivities start at 10am and we play at noon. C&K at 34 Corbett Street, West End. Back to my place after for something to eat.

Confirmed sambistas:

• Angus
• Paul
• Patty (if she feels better)
• Claire
• Remko
• Denis
• Gail (maybe)
• Miki
• Elwin

Room for  more!

Please be there 11.40am. Dress any way you want.

Sorry Brian!

I have to take this opportunity to apologise to Brian. As you can see, a few posts below this one I congratulated Brian on his dancing skills a couple of classes back.

Unfortunately Brian got encouraged by this and tried to further practice his dancing moves when no one was looking, breaking his ankle in the process. Ouch!

So it looks like we won't see Brian for a few weeks (in either his drumming or dancing capacity).

Sorry Brian, hopefully you'll recover soon!

How to play different instruments for pagode

Short interesting demonstration (in Portuguese) of pandeiro, tantan, repinique, played "softly".

Juliana says Hello !

Juliana and Ylias in their vegie garden.

As some of you remember Juliana, our ex- Brazilian sambista, is currently in Mexico living in a commune setting of six people. And do great things with the local community.

She just want to say hi to all of us in the samba school.

. . . and she lives in a beautiful house. I'm jealous !