- Free downloads of audio recordings of all the pieces in Andy Gleadhill's Brazilian Samba Book
- Professionally produced performances
Brazilian Samba is one of Andy Gleadhill’s growing range of Teacher’s guides for classroom instruments.
Above you can play the audio tracks that accompany Andy Gleadhill’s Brazilian Samba Book and you can also download them. The recordings are of professionally produced performances by school children of all the Samba tunes in the book. We recommend that you listen to the tunes either through headphones or good quality speakers as laptop and small loudspeakers will struggle to reproduce the lower frequencies and may sound rather “tinny”.
Andy Gleadhill’s Brazilian Samba Book has been written to help non-specialists introduce Samba playing to whole class as well as smaller groups.
As with all Andy’s teaching guides, this is based on years of teaching experience and is highly practical and down to earth. It assumes no prior knowledge of the Samba style and you don’t even need to be able to read music to teach it effectively. The guide contains a series of lesson plans which will take you and the class through from scratch to your first performance in just 8 weeks.
Our Brazilian Samba – Video Support page can be a useful visual assistant to you. please check out the following links:
Brazilian Samba Class Packs – a general introduction to Class Packs in general and to the subset of Brazilian Samba packs plus a separate overview of each Brazilian Samba pack, showing what’s included in the pack and what the instruments sound like. These videos provide a useful overview of the options for schools or clubs looking to introduce Brazilian Samba using a collaborative teaching and learning approach which can be taught by any teacher, not just music specialists.
Brazilian Samba Instruments – videos introducing and demonstrating the sound of each Drums for Schools instrument.
Brazilian Samba How to Play – videos showing the basic playing techniques for each instrument.
Brazilian Samba Workshops – videos of student workshops.
Brazilian Samba CPD Training – videos of CPD training.
Brazilian Samba Maintenance – videos showing how to tune and re-head a surdo. The same principles apply to other types of Samba drum, including repiniques, caixas and tamborims.
You may also be interested in our free Brazilian Samba – Primary – Scheme of Work which is an excellent practical accompaniment to Andy Gleadhill’s Brazilian Samba Book.
