Fran Merante - Tommy Igoe Samba Tune

This is another tune from the Tommy Igoe Groove Essentials Play Along book demonstrating a Samba groove. This one is a tough one to keep chuggin along consistently!! you'll notice some wavering at various points.

[@RudyDelgado]

Fantastic playing. Drums sound beautiful.

[@antonjamesolsson]

That was GREAT, just wonderful. top notch. :)

[@zachplaysdrums]

Excellent!
Very nice!

[@jj9222]

amazing groove fran....

[@SightNSoundBand]

Very nice playing...very nice...

[@desperanto.]

Damn. Just great!

[@devinkemp88]

If it was me, I'd be doing heel toe, heel toe, but I think he might actually be lifting his foot up and sliding it forward. It's pretty impressive. Samba is fun to play and he does it well.

[@masterhaichanchu]

thanks, im still trying to get over how good that m-birch sounds.....

[@Zimmy244]

You nailed it!!!! awesome job! im working on this groove myself, it's a toughy though. haha

[@gregoryyearwood5124]

This drumming is tight...check out the heal toe technique (I'm still practicing that) Every time I see this I learn more. He has versatility and that's more important for any drummer.

[@ShanilROX]

hey guys Fran Merante is on drummerworld!!!

[@PatricioRuizCampistegui]

Cool, great job mate!

[@leqqTinus]

Sounds great;)

[@rtniels]

impressive
5 stars

[@amaupin4111]

@onatdrums87 100% absolutely

[@MrMrderosier]

i like your fill at 2:12, just getting into this book.

[@Felipe917]

you rule

[@redoctoberff]

@justinrinearson I'm nowhere near as good as this guy, but I can do the double kicks at this tempo. Practice it constantly, and if you have a double bass pedal, sell it! I think I learned the coordination by emulating the Bonham kick (Good Times, Bad Times, etc.). The hardest part for me is still working that coordination into the groove. This video's a great example of that...

[@pealovesq]

@funky2714 -- funny Fran, you know, I never even auditioned. Perhaps as a string player the pool was so small.... ;)
honestly tho, I didn't even send in a demo tape.
hope you're doing great....it's been a while. :)

[@bsritter]

Do you mind running down the mics and recording set-up you used for this? The sound of your drums reminds me a lot of Masterplan-era Weckl.
Nice playing too.

[@goyito123]

muy bueno wn

[@taywon]

nice one :P i like this one... but i hate playin samba.. its so f*ckin' hard ahaha.. but still im workin on practicin' it :P lolz...

[@rechester]

q riko chinaaaa!!

[@masterhaichanchu]

what kit's this?

[@Highfivedrum]

If this is a medium samba it can only be in another solar system that they play FAST samba

[@drummermylo]

sweet... this is the kinda stuff I wanna eventually be able to do. If you have some time, could you check out my video and give me some pointers? The one with the music on top of the drums.