Learning Resources

Learning Resources

For members, we’ve put together a range of resources to help people learn and develop their skills away from class.

We have video tutorials for every piece in our repertoire that cover the parts played by each of the instruments, and a separate video of all the hand signals and cues that we use. There are also training videos for each instrument to help members improve their skills.

We also provide grid-style notation and MP3s to which you can play along at your own speed.

Our Video Training Resources

Here’s an example of a video tutorial for all the instruments for Samba Reggae, one of the pieces in our repertoire.

Notation to Help You Learn

Here’s a snapshot of the grid style notation from the main section of Samba, another piece from our repertoire.

Grid style music notation for one bar of music. Instruments are listed on the left-hand side and there are four columns per beat. The patterns for each instrument are notated using various letters (H & L for agogo, O for surdos, X for everything else). For some instruments, L & R is included to denote handling.