Brazilian Samba Book - Andy Gleadhill

This Samba guide by Andy Gleadhill has been written to help non-specialists introduce Samba playing to whole class as well as smaller groups.

As with all Andy's teaching guides, this is based on years of teaching experience and is highly practical and down to earth. It assumes no prior knowledge of the Samba style and you don't even need to be able to read music to teach it effectively. The guide contains a series of lesson plans which take you and the class through from scratch to your first performance in just 8 weeks!

This book is ideal for setting up your own Samba Band, and the guide comes complete with a CD of the the ten Samba tunes, professionally recorded and played by school children. Chapters include What is a Samba? The Instruments of Samba, The Layout of the Band, Basic Playing Techniques, Musical Notation Elements of Music, Warm up exercises, Call and response, The Clave Explained, Teaching and Learning Notes for 10 Weekly Lessons, and  Creating a Performance. 

The CD contains 10 Samba tunes.