The Berimbau
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Berimbau Metal: • Berimbau Metal
Chatting a bit about what I learned about singthe berimbau to make a rock song.
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Rob! you needed to tie the coconut on to the string and then it would't loose the tone so much. also you can "tune it" with the string of the coconut... basically.... Its pretty common in Brazil to mix metal with a berimbau sound but u made it totally different!
Search for: Soulfly, Ostheobaldo, Catapulta (other brazilian 90's metal-ish bands)
I LOVE IT hahaha
HAhahahaha
Marcelo Sanchez Grisanti I want to see rob do a cover of sepultura's attitude using the berimbau
Dude! We can't forget to mention that Mark Dacascos movie "Only The Strong" (Esporte Sangrento, in portuguese)!
"Onde tem marimbondo, ô-lelê! Onde tem marimbondo, ô-lalá!
"Paranauê! Paranauê, paraná!"
Just kiddin'. It's not so great... =D
Glad to see someone shouting out real berinmbau shit!
Actually it's a calabash, not a coconut! Salute.
jeff is clearly the focus of the video
U already kno
He nam jef
Jeff is all I hear...
NickTheSickDick . Mah name iz jeeff
Brazil djented before it was cool.
Rob, you should check out Sepultura songs, they used the Birimbao in some of their songs, and they do thrash metal, they are from Brazil.
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If I recall correctly, most prominently they use the Berimbau propper in Attitude (and even use it live) and the shaker in Ratamahatta.
bem lembrado!!
enlightendbel Exactly, Attitude and also Ratamahatta, I didn't remember of Ratamahatta. Thanks!
Where are you from?
it's funny seeing you guys discovering the berimbau, because here in some parts of Brazil, and probably in some countries in Africa, it is common and it's used to set the pace of Capoeira, a mix of fight and dance.
Gabriel Dalto 500 other people already said that /.-
ShadowOfDeath24 so why bitch at this dude about it?
Quite right. It's design s actually how it was originally in Africa. This is it being played in a more traditional African way.
czcams.com/video/wk5c-VsKn1E/video.html
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Instrumento da "Capoeira" do Brasil! Instrument of the "Capoeira" of Brazil!
If anyone wants it in english: It's an old Brazilian instrument, if you want to see it used, search for "Capoeira".
I'm pretty sure it could be understood based on similarity of the words, but since someone already bitched about it, there it is the translation :p
Æinarr Krigsson I love that three people were like "yeah, this guy's got a point."
Na verdade o instrumento é da Africa. Actually this instrument is from Afica, here in Brazil we have a pretty deep African cultural influence
Fuck
You have to learn to respect the first languages of the people. "clown"
Make a metal song using Jeff. Jeff Metal.
Its an African (originally) instrument used on Capoeira in Brazil (a fight/dance style or something)
Its part of our culture
Pretty much xddddd
Man, berimbau without the rock and caxixi is just a string hold in a stick
It is just a bow
@@balintspiak4507 berimbow?
You must be Chicago Music Stores favorite customer because you're buying all these unorthodox instruments
look for Attitude by Sepultura. The instrument in the intro is the Berimbau
New game: where is jeff?
you tried to write berimbau metal with The Rock?! oh... I thought you meant... never mind lol
working with these odd instruments and seeing how you find ways to create different sounds is absolutely entrancing
that's a strange guitar.
Its a fender berimbaucaster
That's a strange BASS
Berimbauuuuu.. Drop tuning!
That is why in the song, the berimbau doesn't sound like how I used to hear it haha XD
the berimbau is one of the first stringed instruments EVER!. the instrument is used in the martial art "Capoeira" i think it's really cool that you made metal out of an afrobrazilian instrument wich is really old.
love your vids. keep up the good work :)
You put 2 chairs that won’t move away from each other and place the berimbau on top and push down. Push so it flexes down. Then pull your string tight and wrap it. Helps a lot with another person wrapping. With it tuned if you slide the gourd all the way down get decent low
I liked the track but I'm really disappointed you didn't research or present any of the history of the berimbau. I'm all for experimenting with obscure gear and breaking tradition, but it's important to at least try to respect the culture things come from -- it gives you a better appreciation of the instrument and its music.
The berimbau comes from Brazil by way of African slaves who were not allowed to own musical instruments. So the slaves built instruments like the berimbau from sticks, rocks, wires and gourds, stuff they could find (and hide) easily. Side note: the cajon has a similar origin (it's a box) with African slaves in Peru. Instruments similar to the berimbau are found in parts of Africa and India as well.
If you start learning guitar you're not going to research how it was made and/or its history - if it has an interesting backstory, he wouldn't know so he wouldn't care to research it. No offense intended, thanks for sharing the story.
That is exactly what you do when you learn the guitar lol. You learn the history of the guitar, effects, theory, etc. most importantly, you learn music written for the guitar! @_@
Quite right. It's design s actually how it was originally in Africa. This is it being played in a more traditional African way.
czcams.com/video/wk5c-VsKn1E/video.html
czcams.com/video/z2AORnJlUdw/video.html
You need to check out Soulfly. Max uses one on the intro to "Tribe". It's a Brazilian tribal instrument, that may have originated in Africa, and brought to Brazil in the early 16th century during the slave trade.
The berimbau (Portuguese pronunciation: [beɾĩˈbaw]) is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil. Originally from Africa where it receives different names, the berimbau was eventually incorporated into the practice of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira
People, this instrument is called Birimbao and it's used in Brazilian music and in the dance and martial art Capoeira.
Funny you got this from a guy named Max and metal heads know this instrument best from Max Cavelera era Sepultura. ROOTS!!
the berimbau is (I think) a really old instrument from Brazil, and is mostly used for the sport ''Capoeira''. which originated from the Brazillian prisons. my brother knows a lot more about this instrument and the sport as he was a teacher for it
I think Jeff may have taken a little PCP sometime before this video was made.
On another note, its very nice to see you exploring different instruments instead of just insulting half of the world like some other youtube musicians that we all know. I truly enjoy your experiments.
Playing with the rock is a lot harder, you have to support and balance the berimbau across one pinky finger using the string which keeps tension on the cord. After about 5 minutes of playing it, if you haven't been playing all your life, you'll get "berimbau pinky." AKA a sore ass finger. It's literally the hardest part of the instrument: holding it.
No ducks. Disappointment.
What did you think Jeff was, human?
Dan Sutherland a
The greatest headbanging display ever!!!! Yes! Love your channel.
The rock is kinda tricky, but wrapping the gourd around the string gives it enough tension where you can use the rock on it.
The berimbau is a Brazilian instrument used in a fight / dance called capoeira
When I was like 8 years old I used to go to capoeira classes where we kids would play these brazilian instruments as well as the berimbau :D this video brings back very distant memories
If you go to a capoeira group they will teach you how to set it up right. I'm a beginner in capoeira myself so I don't know a ton but I know that those loops should be closer together, so that you can twist them around all at once in one handful.
Sooo next up is dry wall metal?
In Brazil we use the Berimbau as base instrument for songs to "dance" capoeira. But it works for metal too lol
Rob, you really should check out some of Naná Vasconcelo's music. The guy is a true máster of the Berimbau.
Also, Sepultura and Soulfly, in which Max Cavalera used it in a Metal context.
Rob: makes a video about the Berimbau
Capoeira: Finally... my time has come
i`m capoeirista and i press like button!!!.. good job Rob nice video
You should drill a hole for a traditional guitar string, the bolt a tuner key to it and make it tunable
I believe you ARE supposed to bend it. That's how you get more tention in it. The stick is plyable enough to you can bend it and get the string taut that way.
It was fun what you could play out of that thing hahahaha...
But the pitch and tone can fuck up if the wood isn't right and well bent. We usually carve a piece of wood to a stick as it is done for bows as you guys pointed out. For the rock try and find a pebble stone, the surface that touches the string needs to be as cleaner as possible in order to work properly. And also, the gourd isn't loose. I hope you can find a better instrument and try this again.
Cheers!
If anybody saw Atoms For Peace live, this is what Mauro Refosco uses on "The Clock". ;)
The Berimbau comes from Capoeira, the Brazilian fight/dance. I'm Brazilian, so trust me. Search for capoeira and I'll find out a lot about the instrument
You rock it Rob and I should confirm that the berimbau is a percussion instrument and represent that the war can become into music and peace so it was a bow and the rock was the arrow
I'm very late, but you are supposed to bend it a little in a bow-like shape to get tension. Since its kinda stiff, a little bit of bend will get you a lot of tension.
Hey Rob,
build one yourself, with a tuner on top so it stays in tune.
Grtz
Peter
"you got a splinter? oh i'm sorry" rob is just the nicest guy ever
DUDE I am so happy that I'm not the only person who presses their guitar up to the wall to hear it resonate!
I saw this guy with a didgeridoo doing what sounded a lot like dubstep. He was really great with it. Now I can't find the video anymore. :'(
I recommend you look at youtube tutorials to play touches of capoeira:
- paranaue
- sul da bahia
- toque da luna
- toque de benguela
- toque de angola
- apala naranja
- saobento grande
Jeff seems like a cool guy
Territory on berimbau, cheers from Brazil.
Rob I have one word for you, Sepultura!!!!! they used a berimbau and an electric one for their heavy metal songs
It was created by slaves in Brazil. The reason it looks so exotic is it was meant to be a disguise for a bow, the stick was used because it was an arrow. It’s traditionally used in capoeira, a martial art also developed by Brazilian slaves:
The name of your instrument in the hand with the stick is called-kashichi
how about if you were to make a modern Berimbau with a machine head and such?
The "rock" is called a "Dobrao,"
Edit: The shaker is also called a "Caxixi," and the stick for playing it is called a "Baqueta"
ooooh that snickers ad *hiss* its skimming the edge bruh.
i'd love to see a video where you did it higher like it was supposed to be played
show more of it like it is supposed to be set up please. Never seen this
I think you'd have a lot of fun with the jaw harp, you should check it out if you haven already
Check the old Videos from "Roots" by Sepultura, they did awesome Berimbau metal almost 20 years ago.
So Jeff was the mythical creature rob was summoning using his ritual stick
Speaking of highly resonant instruments, when are you going to get an ES-335? Most versatile guitar ever!
It’s rad you added the berimbau! Your arame is def tuned low even for gunga, but it sounds Sick!!
Max Cavalera uses this in a lot of Soulfys older material.
I'm wearing the same shirt, so that's neat.
ask someone to modify this or make a brand new berimbau. something that can really make it into a metal song
This makes me wonder what it'd sound like if you took, say, a digeridoo, and strung the thing up to utilize the entire tube as your resonance chamber. Or something like one of those alpine horns might work better?
Jeff is the overlord of everything
Jeff is my spirit animal
I still really like listening to dubstep
Check out Afro Left by Leftfield, features the berimbau
Right at the end of the video, there's someone coming to get Rob.
First time I heard a berimbau in metal was in "Attitude" by Sepultura. \m/
Hey Rob what instrument can you play? "Yes"
So this instrument is the same instrument Max Cavalera uses in some of his songs in his band SoulFly, right?
Hi Rob, I believe this is used in 'the Werewolf' by Paul Simon :)
You should totally check out sepultura. (If u already havent) Love from brazil
"Friend" Jeff. Don't worry Rob, we won't judge.
iv also always done the sheetrock thing it works better with the breadstick. but if you have no amp...
This took me back to my Sepultura days!
You should really check out 19 tone equal temperament, it would be awesome if someone could pioneer a new non-chromatic scale into western culture. If anyone is interested, the only website site I found to purchase these was Metatonal Music.
Here, I found a link to an artist who uses microtonal guiars soundcloud.com/gregory-sanchez-2
Do it with a smoother rock, put it closer to the end of the instrument. It's hard-ish but that's how they do it. Check a capoeira place thing or videos to get a hold on the instrument's history if you want. There's really not all that much to it.
i just fucking love jeff in the back haha
Hi Rob! Have a nice day Rob!
And everyone else!
:)))
You should put a guitar tuning-key on the end, to tune it properly
BERIMBAU JAM PLS!
Such a simple instrument and so hard to play it properly. About the tension - you need to put some force and they way you r tighten it is similar to arming a bow. You can check the tutorials in youtube. After that you'll need time to practice just holding it properly :)
This + didgeridoo + those african drums that can bend the pitch =acoustic EDM
you could also experiment with bouzouki
Sounds like the music before you leave the safe room on L4D1
3:40 Insert Seinfeld Theme
look or Google Capoeira to know more about the Berimbau.
So you are saying that they played dubstep in the Stoneage :O holy cow
it's hilarious to see the reactions of a non brazilian people tryng to play with berimbau.....Hope you search for the history of this instrument, that have a big importance on brazilian culture. Hello from Brazil.
Roots!!! Bloody Roots!!!
Jeff is a cool guy
you just forgot a ring, which is supposed to come with the berimbau so you can achieve more notes instead of just one
and of course, the coconut is on the opposite way. But the song you made was great anyways
this guy is ridiculous. its so goid
You should using a violin bow with it.