BRAZILIAN PERCUSSIONS

(Students level: beginners, intermediates and advanced)

Instruments and their techiques:
caixa (snare-drum), repinique, surdo, timba, tamborím, pandeiro, congas and atabaques, berimbau, alfaia (maracatù drum), agogó, cuica, ganzá, caxixi, udu, reco-reco, shekeré, tantan, etc.

Rhythms and musical styles:
samba de partido alto, samba de raiz, samba-batucada, samba-reggae, ijexá, capoeira music, Candomblé music, baião, xote, coco, maracatú de baque virado, etc.

CUBAN AND CARIBBEAN PERCUSSIONS

(Students level: beginners/intermediates)

Instruments and their techiques:
congas, bongó, timbales, clave, gua-guá, chekeré, maracas, bombo, guiro, etc.

Rhythms and musical styles:
bolero, danzón, cha-cha, son, mambo, rumba guaguancó/columbia, songo, mozambique, merengue, etc.

AFRICAN PERCUSSIONS

(Students level: beginners)

Instruments and their techiques:
Djembé, dundun, goungouki, shekeré, wassakoumbá, udu, darbouka, etc.

Rhythms and musical styles:
Jansá, sunu, sofa, soli, wasulunke, kuku, etc.

URUGUAY PERCUSSIONS

(Students level: begginner/intermediate/advanced)

Instruments and their techiques:
tambor chico, tambor piano, tambor repique

Rhythms and musical styles:
candombe, milongón