Bateria

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Mestre Cobra Mansa leading a Capoeira bateria.
Acadêmicos do Engenho da Rainha Bateria, samba school parade, 2010.

The term bateria means “drum kit” in Portuguese and Spanish. In Brazil, the word is also used for a form of Brazilian samba band, the percussion band or rhythm section of a Samba School.[citation needed] It might also mean battery.

Baterias are also used to accompany the Brazilian martial art, capoeira.

Instruments[]

  • Surdo (a large, low-tuned drum, the heartbeat of the samba)
  • Caixa de guerra (a snare drum)
  •  [pt] (a smaller snare drum)
  • Repinique (a small drum, twelve by fourteen inches)
  • Chocalho (a rattle, made up of rows of jingles)
  • Tamborim (a frame drum played with a flexible beater)
  • Agogô (a double cow bell)
  • Reco-reco (a notched stick played with a scraper)
  • Pandeiro (a tambourine)
  • Cuíca (a hollow drum-like instrument containing a bamboo stick that is rubbed to produce a squeaky sound)
  • Clash cymbals
  • Bass drums (optional and in some samba school drum lines)

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