Programs in Cuba

Study Programs in Brazil

Study Programs in Puerto Rico
June 30th to July 11th 2008
New Lesson Information

Well, I've remodeled my drum room/studio and installed some amazing equipment for teaching and recording. I'm also gearing up for live lessons online. Got my camera going and now I'm going to figure out how to mic my drums, connect them to my Mac Pro quad core to provide great sound for the online live lessons. I'm ready to do the lessons using the mics from my Sony camcorder as well. Check it out!

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Updated 31 March

Basic Cuban Groove Info
We are planning for our 2008 Cuba program.
Programs in Brasil and Puerto Rico for 2008.
Please email me for more information.

Study Drums in Brazil!
Go here for info!

Cuba Drum Study programs
Go here for info!

I teach many students, individually, by DVD.
I can produce lessons for you as well.
If you're interested, please drop me a line. Thanks!
MOVIES
MOVIE FORMAT
Introduction to My Lessons Quicktime Real Video
Learning Pagode in Brasil Quicktime
(2.2 mb) up		 Real Video

Timbale Lessons

 Quicktime Real Video
Conga Lessons Quicktime Real Video
"Salsa" Drum Set Groove Quicktime Real Video
Candombe Funk Groove Quicktime Real Video
 

Poncho Sanchez
Conga CookBook
 

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AfroCaribbean
Drumset Grooves

Examples Here
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OK, if you've visited my pages before, you're used to my lessons written with Sibelius. This lesson was in response to a good friend and teacher, Sammy J Watson, who was asking me for a real basic "mambo" groove for one of his students. I was looking on my lessons pages and couldn't find this super basic information anywhere. I wrote this up real fast and sent it over to Sammy J!

OK, this looked pretty bad written by hand so I went ahead and re-did it with Sibelius!

Very basically, this is a variation of the cáscara pattern with an open (regular note head) and closed sound (x)played between cross stick and tom. Bass drum is pretty basic and sounds good without being overwhelming.
You'll notice there's no HH. So, this is pretty basic three way coordination that sounds good.

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Please drop me a line to let me know your comments and questions.

As Always, Enjoy!

 

 

Please do write to me at chuck@chucksilverman.com
with any comments!

 
 

Much thanks to Sibelius software for assisting me with these lessons!
A very easy and intuitive program for
music notation and much more.

 
 
 

 
 

7/8 Foot Exercises

Upstroke Exercise
11/16 Hand Exercise
The ParaClave    
Mike Clark Fill Roll Speed/Endurance Paradiddles from John Wooton Melodic Coordination Continued Mozambique Wooton Diddle Exercises.2
Mozambique Application 2 Hand Exercise Triplet Groupings.6 Triplet Groupings.9 Triplet Groupings.10
Latin 101 Clave with Diddles Brasil-Diddles Chad Smith Groove Rock Steady
Bernard Purdie 		Mozambique Sticking
Purdie Reggae Just Paradiddles Coordinated Independence.1 Coordinated Independence.2 6*8 Inspired Patterns 6*8 Inspired Fills
Continuing Coordination Continuing Coordination 5 Continuing Coordination 6 Basic Groove Review 2 Continuing Coordination 7 Paradiddle-Diddle Ex
Hip Hop Independence


Beginning Ghost Notes

Jazz Independence Jazz Independence 2 Musical Ride Patterns
Samba de Angola Steve Jordan
Tre Cool 		Brief Review 16th Grooves Bernard Purdie-Serious Groove
Drum Essentials Cuban Drumming Primer Mo' Songo
Essential Ghost Notes 		Samba 4 Drumset
Samba Snare Pattern Dbl. Handed Samba Essential Groove Candombe Groove Latin Funk.1 LatinFunk.2
Playing Clave Drum Set Grooves Clave Drum Set Grooves. 2

Advanced Coordination Exercise

Matanzas
Catá
Cascara Hand Exercise #2 What Should You Learn? MI Lesson
Mozambique
Cascara Application #3 Singles Exercise
Songo Basic2 Songo Basic3 Rumba from
Havana 		Rumba from
Matanzas		 Maracas Applications Cascara Hand Exercise
Hand WarmUps Double Bass Workout Three Sixteen Hand Exer.

Five Four
Hand Exer.

 Columbia from Matanzas Basic Songo
Samba Reggae Memphis Soul Stew Paradiddle Pyramid Baião Rhythm Clave Warmups
Ostinato Ex. More Double Bass Abakwa for Drum Set Cuban Drum Grooves Abakwa Drums Poncho's Mambo
Partido Alto Partido Alto + Hand Exercises

Manny Oquendo
Legendary
Musician

How to Make Transitions

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Transition
Information

 Basic Samba

Musical Odd Note Groupings using
Triplets.

More Musical Odd Note Groupings using
Triplets.		 Interesting Sticking Ideas New York Style Mozambique MI Class New Ride Pattern

Candombe Hand Exercise

Lombardo
Lesson
#1

 

Lombardo Lesson
#2

Groovin' Independence

 Basic Brasilian Rhythms Double Bass Cowbell Lessons
Latin Hand Patterns Latin Rudiments 5 against 2 Hand Patterns Changuito Melodic Independence Cascara Funk Lesson FunkyTwist!
Make It Funky! More Brasilian Lessons Why You Drum! Articles of Independence Dave Lombardo Power Grooves lesson Candombe

Killer Timbale Solo

 Memphis Soul Stew Memphis Soul Stew.2 Palo Drum Set Lesson Palo Drum Set Lesson.2 Get That Funk Outta Here!!
Chachacha
for drum set

World Percussion
Class

Great Groove from Cuba

 Reading
Lesson
 
 
 

Thanks once again for visiting my lessons page, and for checking out the website. If I can be of any help to you, please drop me an email. And don't forget to check out the books, CDs, and videos available here. Thanks!

 
Chuck Silverman
P.O. Box 572962
Tarzana, CA 91357-2962
USA
Fax 818.884 8831

 
 
 
 

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