It's official.
MARACATU MONDAY IS AWESOME.
Or rather, was, seeing as how it was held yesterday (Edit: TWO days ago. =S).
SO...Maracatu Monday was a one-day maracatu percussion workshop organized by our very own Wicked Aura Batucada, featuring Mr Jeff Duneman of Maracatu NY. News of the event was spread through Facebook and, thanks to Izzat, I was persuaded to attend said workshop.
Apparently, Maracatu's a way more complicated form of percussion than your typical samba percussion. There's like a lot of off-beats involved, with the grooves being more lengthy and plenty in between. Oh oh, and they actually hold the sticks differently in Maracatu than they would in Samba; for the surdos, at least. The left-hand mallet, or a normal stick as they would usually use, is typically held like how a snare player would his left-hand drumstick. The result is a super cool playing technique and an awesome visual spectacle.
All in all, I'd say we had major fun that day.
AND I WANT TO USE THE WICKED AURA SURDOS AGAIN!!! =(
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