A Gringo's Guide to Samba Piano | Partido Alto

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I will be using this confinement/quarantine/lockdown time to share some of my process, tell some of my stories, and reboot my blogging/vlogging from back in the day. In this episode, I demonstrate the partido alto pattern on pandeiro, and apply it to the piano with drop 2-style voicings. This is snother major influence on my samba and bossa nova comping style on piano, which is reminiscent of many Brazilian guitar players.

0:00 – intro
1:54 – review of rhythmic fundamentals and Brazilian swing feel
4:54 – partido alto on pandeiro
7:50 – partido alto on keyboard
14:44 – examples with percussion loops

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