Winter 2009
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Eduardo taught us the names of many instruments used in Brazilian samba, and we learned how to play a few of them. In the picture above, we are playing the tamborim and the ganza. Kindergarten, First, and Second grades learned to count to four in Portuguese, and to play a call-and-response introduction to a samba piece.
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The upper grades learned to play the rhythms of a samba-reggae piece, using surdo, and agogo. Everyone had to learn all of the parts, as we had different instruments to play each day. We played a call-and-response pattern to stop the parts, and practiced having different parts stop each time while the others kept going. It was a challenge, but we sounded great!
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Eduardo taught us two games to warm us up before playing. The first was called “Vivo o Muerto”, and the second was from Uganda and called “Badu badu”. Both games involved following verbal cues for how we were supposed to move. Once we learned the actions, Eduardo would try to trick us by moving in the opposite way from the direction. In this game, we practiced following the leader and knowing how to do our own parts when the leader did something different from us.
Eduardo worked with all of the students at John Stanford International School to learn percussion techniques and traditional Brazilian Samba and Samba Reggae rhythms. The students learned about the history and culture of Brazil. They talked about and practiced playing as a large group and in small groups, and learned to play ganza, tamborim, surdo, and agogo.
At the International Arts Celebration in May, Fourth grade and Bilingual Orientation Center students performed Samba Reggae.
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