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Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira Adult Class with Professora Amazonas
Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira working on the music and rhythms of samba.
Berimbau
In Professora Amazonas classes, all students, including the children, study and learn the instruments of capoeira, from the drums to the berimbau, and play during the roda.
Maculélé - Agogô
Youth student of Professora Amazonas playing the agogô for students practicing maculélé.
Maculélé - Drum
Youth student of Professora Amazonas playing the drum patterns for students practicing the maculélé movements.
Batería - Maculélé
In Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, all students learn, study and play the musical instruments featured in the variety of forms taught and practiced in classes and training.
Cuá
The cuá is an instrument that accompanies the barriles de bomba. The cuá is actually the sticks used to play on either a barrel or chunk of bamboo and helps keep the basic rhythm of the bomba strains.
Playing the Barriles
Playing the barriles de bomba at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.
Grupo Senzala
Members of Capoeira Senzala sing and play instruments of the Brazilian art of capoeira.
Brazilian Hand Drums
Hand drums are found across cultures in myriad genres of folkloric music from around the world. These Brazilian hand drums are called pandeiros
Pandeiro
Hand frame drum used in capoeira and other Brazilian music forms. Pandeiros generally have a wooden rim with metal disks like a tambourine and a natural skin head.