Here's my stab at a relatively simple approach to cavaquinho accompaniment for Chorinho pra você, another of the tunes in the Core Repertoire for CCNE 2025.
Chart:
The videos are all in a playlist on the Choro Camp Youtube channel
Here are links to each of them separately:
Introductory Explanation: (Sorry about the audio on this first one. The others are better! 🙂
A section:
B section
C section:
Thanks Andrew, these all have been very helpful to find a thread into the tunes.
What are you using for your backing rhythms that you're playing to?
I have not found anything Choro-specific yet to practice to. What you're using way more fun than a metronome and provides helpful exposure to underlying polyrhythms underneath it all.
Cheers!
Frank
Hi Frank!
One good tool you might consider getting is an app called eBatuque. That has a wide variety of rhythms to play along with and learn from. With that app, you can isolate specific instruments. Very cool.
I'm using a series of pandeiro tracks that Rafael Toledo made many years ago. I think he's fine with sharing them, so you'll find them here:
Have fun!
~Andrew
Sharing back that both of these rhythms sources really helpful!
Been making up 2 and 3 chord vamps against them to build dexterity/flow and exploring Saracoteando and Despresado to both.
eBatuque truly amazing with great variety, distinctive specific sounds, and lots of controls to dial in....and there's cuica!
Does anyone play/teach cuica during our week? I have one and make noise with it but have not gotten musical with it yet. Would be great get some basics about it to build toward some musicality on it.
Cheers!
Frank
We'll have a couple skilled percussionists on staff, so by all means bring your cuica and ask for some pointers. Just don't play the darn thing in a roda de samba until you really know what you're doing! 🤣 🤣
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