snappy sambo beat ...

[Jim Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>]

The sambo is one of those dance crazes that if you look hard enough
you can still find adherants.  To be a truly successful samba player,
one needs claves (hollow clickers), maracas, timbales (like Sheila E
plays) and a drum set (with the snare drum snares turned off).  Start
off with the bass drum going - 1 [rest on 2] 3 4 | 1 [] 3 4|etc.
Then have the maracas player chime in with a good steady beat.  Add
the claves - mostly play in a syncopated offbeat manner.  Then add
in the timbales for ornamentation and accentuation. The set player
usually plays on a hi-hat or cymbal.  Sort of sounds like the
tango without that extra off beat at the end of the measure.

If you really want to hear the sambo, find one of those gaudy organs
in any organ store and hit the switch under percussion that says
sambo.  Don't get it confused with beguine, though.

Now as to a snappy sambo beat, your guess is as good as mine!
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Someone mentioned a bazooki (sp?) and I am reminded of the 
Monty Python skit where John Cleese plays an intellectual
type trying to buy a piece of cheese.  In background is a
bazooki player.  When Cleese gets all pissed off because 
"in reality, there is no cheese, sir" he turns towards the
bazooki players and yells - "Shut that bloody bazooka up!!!"

I guess you had to be there, though.

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