I've been a capoeirista for about a year now... I can do an S dobrado backflip landing in a face kick, but can still barely maintain a beat for traditional Angoles songs. Cudos, mate, that's some seriously impressive stuff.
That is a FABULOUS video of Santiago Vasquez. Thank you so much for sharing it! I love his music, with or without Puente Celeste. So glad to catch this.
hello, same question as satellite wish. I'm currently looking for the best mic to amplifiy a berimbau. Do you happen to have any recommendation. Great playing !@@GuyMendilowEnsemble
🤣🤣🤣 Yeah dude I was all about that video until I saw how it's actually played and now I cringe every time! 🤣 Love me some Rob Scallon but that shit ain't berimbau.
That is a FABULOUS video of Santiago Vasquez. Thank you so much for sharing it! I love his music, with or without Puente Celeste. So glad to catch this.
@thethirteenthraven: The amplification is something I've been working on for a while. The long and short of it is that I have an inexpensive lavaliere mic inside the gourd as well as a piezzo pick-up, mounted to a metal saddle (with leather on the inside, to dampen the metallic ring). These run into a small mixer and blended there. I add a bit of EQ to bring out the gourd thump (the bass drum sound) and compression to even the thump with the string sound. It's a miracle it doesn't explode.
You wrote this to me 8 years ago, answering every question I had left to ask. I just felt equal to you for a moment when it came to skill on the instument... still give you the nod for my own inspiriation.
This literally sent me back 12 years, back to when I met a good friend of mine for the first time. My first ever time trying Capoeira:) Thanks for the memory lane trip on a Sunday Morning sir:)
@cobaiatemorozo yeah!! Did you know the musical bow is not just from Brazil though? It's the oldest and most common string instrument on the planet. Just about every place that ever used a bow and arrow (short bow, long bow, etc) also made music with it. That said, I did learn to build in Brazil. These ones were built in Salvador. I got my start through Capoeira...
Hey, thanks all for checking this video out. Had no idea it would get watched at all. I feel like I owe you guys another one now...this feels like a long time ago. Thanks for taking the time to view.
Hey, i really love that track!! I have a question and i know that it is a lomg time ago but could play the same pattern on the berimbau without the rattle but only with the stick and make another video? I would really love to use it to make a beat for my work in school.
@JustAluno Gourd is just a medio. I do tune it low, though. I and a luthier created our own tuning system, and have been experimenting with different ways to get the instrument lower. Man, I could really use the capoiera world! That's where I got my start but it's been a long time since I've played. Axe!
Caramba! Ele precisa de uma aula do pessoal, os quais são mestres da arte, toca bem diferente do que a Bahia apresenta! Está bem divergente do berimbau tocado por nós aqui.
Não existe um único jeito de tocar um piano, nem um único jeito de tocar violar e qualquer outro instrumento. Por que o berimbau só pode ter 1 estilo e o cara provou que é possível fazer música do jeito diferente da capoeira? Se está divergente é porque é outro estilo.
@MrJDFrog No, haven't got anything online about this. We're using a bass tuner mounted on an additional piece of wood and an ebony cap with a wire groove. I think you can see this up top. The most difficult thing about fashioning this is that luthiers' tools are generally designed to work with things are that flat or round whereas the biriba wood is neither, and each piece is different. So creating a vice that will allow one to work on it is half the story! Thanks for yer kind words, Good luck!
Hey, just wanted to thank you guys for the great comments. Who knew! This video was almost an after-thought. Anyway, much appreciated. Cheers! Been meaning to post a follow up (I think I promised that to someone) and will...just been so busy...like all of us
@001Tara1 yes, nowadays the arame is from the inside of a car tire. You can also use piano wire but it doesn't sound quite the same. Tire wire is difficult to get out of the tire - it takes a lot of work with a knife. You can get old tires at a junk yard, or just find them on the side of the road somewhere. Or your neighbor's driveway. Don't tell them I said this.
Cheers! Really appreciate that. We just released a new one in October, our best to date without a doubt. guymendilowensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-forgotten-kingdom-music-from-the-show-2
I get high sometimes sometimes, quite often actually hahaha, and I just play with my berimbau to see where it leads and I related so much with your stuff bro. It’s beautiful bro! Tks! Best of luck to you!
This is awesome! We are reading the book Out of Many Waters and it mentions this instrument. There is a Wiki for it but it is much easier to get a sense of what it is, how it sounds, and how it's played when you can actually see it being done! Thanks!!!
+Brittney Clay Cheers, Brittney. Here's a link to a great article: www.nscottrobinson.com/berimbau.php My playing in this video is actually quite un-traditional in many ways because of the way the instrument is tuned and amplified. Check out Nana Vasconsuelos, or Ramiro Musotto for some more inspiration
@Saxon72 Cool! As far as I knew this was straight improv, as I was making it up as I went. But you know how the mind works, especially subconsciously. Never heard of Sepultura. Can you point my way to them? Especially the album of which you speak? Cheers, GJM
nada menos do que fantástico... amei... quem é artista, é outro nivel manda um salve (um cumprimento) para o pessoal da capoeira (diga: "um salve para todos os capoeiristas)
@TheSiteOffice wow! Thanks for the great post!! Definitely made me smile. So, you got it right man - the berimbau is the principal instrument of capoeira. But as an instrument it is also much older and very much more prolific - the musical bow is the oldest and most common string prototype on the planet! No, not a cowboy. Sometimes I feel like I herd cats though. Cat boy? As for playing naked: they don't allow that sort of thing on TH-cam. You'll have to come to a show to see for yourself.;-)
When one cowboy play the berimbau from brazil! Congratulations, man!
Fantastic!
Please don't ever unpost this. I've gone back to this vid so many times in the past couple years. So awesome.
I've been a capoeirista for about a year now... I can do an S dobrado backflip landing in a face kick, but can still barely maintain a beat for traditional Angoles songs. Cudos, mate, that's some seriously impressive stuff.
Cheers!
Cudos?
You need to teach Rob Scallon how to properly play this
mugglesmonster dude, I was at his video right now thinking that he should really learn how to play it.
th-cam.com/video/mqJxkRwh9GQ/w-d-xo.html
That is a FABULOUS video of Santiago Vasquez. Thank you so much for sharing it! I love his music, with or without Puente Celeste. So glad to catch this.
hello, same question as satellite wish. I'm currently looking for the best mic to amplifiy a berimbau. Do you happen to have any recommendation. Great playing !@@GuyMendilowEnsemble
🤣🤣🤣 Yeah dude I was all about that video until I saw how it's actually played and now I cringe every time! 🤣 Love me some Rob Scallon but that shit ain't berimbau.
Such an underrated instrument
Easily the best berimbau track I've listened to. So interesting. I love this hectic, funky feel you gave to it.
Cheers, EdgarTheRaven! Much appreciated.
Don't mention it. It was a pleasure to listen. If I ever do a movie I'm going to contact you for this one;)
th-cam.com/video/mqJxkRwh9GQ/w-d-xo.html
That is a FABULOUS video of Santiago Vasquez. Thank you so much for sharing it! I love his music, with or without Puente Celeste. So glad to catch this.
Muito bom! Abraços do Brasil.
muito obrigado!
vai ser regional?
14 years after this music is the best❤
@thethirteenthraven: The amplification is something I've been working on for a while. The long and short of it is that I have an inexpensive lavaliere mic inside the gourd as well as a piezzo pick-up, mounted to a metal saddle (with leather on the inside, to dampen the metallic ring). These run into a small mixer and blended there. I add a bit of EQ to bring out the gourd thump (the bass drum sound) and compression to even the thump with the string sound. It's a miracle it doesn't explode.
You wrote this to me 8 years ago, answering every question I had left to ask. I just felt equal to you for a moment when it came to skill on the instument... still give you the nod for my own inspiriation.
That reverb is amazing.
This literally sent me back 12 years, back to when I met a good friend of mine for the first time. My first ever time trying Capoeira:)
Thanks for the memory lane trip on a Sunday Morning sir:)
O Melhor tocador de berimbau que já vi
Muito obrigado
You made it come alive, so beautiful! Thank you!
Cheers, MJ!
Very impressive !
I didn’t know it was possible to produce so much different sound with this instrument
if humans had a mating call, this is what it would sound like
Very nice! Funky and with a taste of Drum N Bass!
Aqui maguinho mestre de capoeira ...
Abraço do Brasil 🇧🇷
Perfect
@cobaiatemorozo yeah!!
Did you know the musical bow is not just from Brazil though? It's the oldest and most common string instrument on the planet. Just about every place that ever used a bow and arrow (short bow, long bow, etc) also made music with it.
That said, I did learn to build in Brazil. These ones were built in Salvador. I got my start through Capoeira...
I'm a Turkish but I very love Capoeira Barimbau music. ❤🎉
Hey, thanks all for checking this video out. Had no idea it would get watched at all. I feel like I owe you guys another one now...this feels like a long time ago.
Thanks for taking the time to view.
Hey, i really love that track!! I have a question and i know that it is a lomg time ago but could play the same pattern on the berimbau without the rattle but only with the stick and make another video? I would really love to use it to make a beat for my work in school.
Truly talented
imagine if this was mixed live with a didgeridoo!!
Nathan Prescott You are right!
Você é muito bom. PARABÉNS.
Muito obrigado!
Coisa mais linda de instrumento
Cara!mano desde quando ouvi o som do berimbau,eu imaginava um som elétrico,gostei que venha mais.
Absolutely phenomenal!!!
This is definitely the most beautiful song I've heard played on this instrument yet.
I haven't found a solo better than this one. This is fantastic!!
Wow, thanks!
Muito bom!!!
É um berimbau de respeito.
Grande som...
You the real deal bro ! Thank you !
Трансформация)) музыка уносит просто космос)) буду на поле тренироваться в тумане))
Ficou muito bom, parabéns.
волшебство обертонов) просто Царь!)
More! MORE! Please, more!
I'll work on it - thanks for requesting!
@JustAluno Gourd is just a medio. I do tune it low, though. I and a luthier created our own tuning system, and have been experimenting with different ways to get the instrument lower.
Man, I could really use the capoiera world! That's where I got my start but it's been a long time since I've played.
Axe!
Caramba! Ele precisa de uma aula do pessoal, os quais são mestres da arte, toca bem diferente do que a Bahia apresenta! Está bem divergente do berimbau tocado por nós aqui.
Não existe um único jeito de tocar um piano, nem um único jeito de tocar violar e qualquer outro instrumento. Por que o berimbau só pode ter 1 estilo e o cara provou que é possível fazer música do jeito diferente da capoeira? Se está divergente é porque é outro estilo.
Oxe precisa de aula KKK só tem um jeito é
@@deko3693 O cara claramente está mostrando que não kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Exelente Maestro !!!
@MrJDFrog No, haven't got anything online about this. We're using a bass tuner mounted on an additional piece of wood and an ebony cap with a wire groove. I think you can see this up top. The most difficult thing about fashioning this is that luthiers' tools are generally designed to work with things are that flat or round whereas the biriba wood is neither, and each piece is different. So creating a vice that will allow one to work on it is half the story! Thanks for yer kind words, Good luck!
Fantastic! The berimbau is such an interesting instrument; I'd love to learn to play it myself! :)
It IS a fascinating instrument, with rich history. The musical bow itself is amazing.
This could be an awesome, brutal metal track.
On it. 🤘🏻
Attidute by sepultura uses this instrument as the intro
Funkayyy!! I like the percussive effect with the gourd. Nice technique.
Best sounding berimbau ever.
That's very kind of you to write. Thank you. And also - there are some truly remarkable players out there...a good opportunity to listen
Waauuw, crazy Performance and flow!!!
super cool. Bahia forever
Sim, irmao!
This awesome! It’s a different approach from the common rhythms of the Brazilian culture. Fukien A bro! I love it!
Excelente, muito bonito. Uma arte maravilhosa.
Hey, just wanted to thank you guys for the great comments. Who knew! This video was almost an after-thought. Anyway, much appreciated. Cheers! Been meaning to post a follow up (I think I promised that to someone) and will...just been so busy...like all of us
@001Tara1 yes, nowadays the arame is from the inside of a car tire. You can also use piano wire but it doesn't sound quite the same. Tire wire is difficult to get out of the tire - it takes a lot of work with a knife. You can get old tires at a junk yard, or just find them on the side of the road somewhere.
Or your neighbor's driveway.
Don't tell them I said this.
by far the best on youtube
Wow, you can really rock out on one of those!! I'm getting one, it's got to be done!
Goes really nicely to Seether's "Remedy"
Superb !!! I bought one of your albums a few years ago and it's in there with the favourites.
Cheers! Really appreciate that. We just released a new one in October, our best to date without a doubt. guymendilowensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-forgotten-kingdom-music-from-the-show-2
love it! If you had more of then by your side in different tunings, you could cover a shred guitar solo.
Love it
Sounds like The roots- the seed 2.0
berimbau é bom demais
I get high sometimes sometimes, quite often actually hahaha, and I just play with my berimbau to see where it leads and I related so much with your stuff bro. It’s beautiful bro! Tks! Best of luck to you!
A very different style from usual capoeira songs, very nice!
Out of this world.
Thank you.
Call Max Cavalera.
I work with Max.......good idea lol
Amazing piece, cheers from Brasil!
Wow! Very cool!! I must learn how to make one!
This is awesome! We are reading the book Out of Many Waters and it mentions this instrument. There is a Wiki for it but it is much easier to get a sense of what it is, how it sounds, and how it's played when you can actually see it being done! Thanks!!!
+Brittney Clay Cheers, Brittney. Here's a link to a great article: www.nscottrobinson.com/berimbau.php
My playing in this video is actually quite un-traditional in many ways because of the way the instrument is tuned and amplified. Check out Nana Vasconsuelos, or Ramiro Musotto for some more inspiration
Diferente! Muito criativo! Parabéns!
Essa fera manja dos paranaue
Bravo! This sounds great! Wow, so cool!
this is amazing
Wow, awsome playing!
Beautiful!!!!
Please more from this Instrument
@Saxon72 Cool! As far as I knew this was straight improv, as I was making it up as I went. But you know how the mind works, especially subconsciously.
Never heard of Sepultura. Can you point my way to them? Especially the album of which you speak?
Cheers, GJM
This is amazing.
Amazing love how you played with the sound so good.
You have everyone beat at this berimbau! The way you make world rhythms happen with that instrument is amazing. Never saw anyone better! Way Cool!
Thanks!
Dude, that rocked. You're the bomb!
Strangest morning ever, you rock dear:) This melody inside is beautiful, I hope you are doing well :)
Thank you!
that's actually insane!
Até hoje não vi melhor
Holy crap man, what a flex! 🤯💪💯
Cheers! Thank you for listening
A CONGRATILATIONS FROM BRASIL!!!
Amazing music! Kudos!
Holy crap, man! This sounds amazing!
So good ,for sound Track!!!
nada menos do que fantástico... amei... quem é artista, é outro nivel
manda um salve (um cumprimento) para o pessoal da capoeira (diga: "um salve para todos os capoeiristas)
Muito obgrigado. Agradeço!
Extraordinario
I was waiting for him to play for about a minute until I realized he was playing the whole time. Thought he was just waving his hand around
delete urselef damn you’re slow
boa moleque, com o caixa de som ele consegue fazer o som da cabaça soar mais alto pra frente e a segunda corda sincronizou bem a primeira
Very interesting instrument indeed.
Hope you got the message from the other video, Excellent.
Hi Allan: apologies, I did not get the message. Can you please re-send?
The berimbal Rock !! cara mt manero!! ganhou um instcrito
awesome!
Very very awesome!
Thank you very much!
Top demais meu amigo... Cola no Brasil pra jogar Capoeira
Nice. Rockin the berimbau.
This is amazing!!!
INTENSE very beautiful!
Thank you
@TheSiteOffice wow! Thanks for the great post!! Definitely made me smile.
So, you got it right man - the berimbau is the principal instrument of capoeira. But as an instrument it is also much older and very much more prolific - the musical bow is the oldest and most common string prototype on the planet!
No, not a cowboy. Sometimes I feel like I herd cats though. Cat boy?
As for playing naked: they don't allow that sort of thing on TH-cam. You'll have to come to a show to see for yourself.;-)
Good song!
Moto bene!
Gratsias.
Parabéns!
Obrigado!