Berimbau Lessons

While I'm on the topic of music, and am unlikely to ever get on it again given my lack of ability, I'd like to plug some great online Berimbau Lessons I used a while back to improve my Berimbau playing. I purchased the downloadable versions of Berimbau Lessons 1 and 2 and they were excellent. Good quality, good music, easy to understand.

I knew how to play the standard Angola rhythm from when I played Capoeira and wanted to learn some others. Both video lessons had a lot of different rhythms and inspired me to play the Berimbau more, as I had more things to try out. I've not seen much on the web with regard to learning this unusual instrument which is a shame. I can definitely recommend Bridges To.

For those unfamiliar with the berimbau, it's a single stringed musical instrument used as the main instrument for the music in the martial art Capoeira. In Capoeira, the 'players', perform the Capoeira techniques against each other, within a circular ring of people who play musical instruments and sing traditional Capoeira songs (usually in Portugese). The rhythm of the music sets the rhythm of the dance/fight/game.

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