Ano Novo

'I am the greatest'

'Waiting for my dog spot'

Samba Ottawa plaing at Major's Hill Park for the Tulip Festival

Samba Ottawa playing Ano Novo at Vankleek Hill May Festival, 2010:
Entrada 0:15; Wave 1:50; Unibrau 2:20; Sapucai 3:10; Eye 3:30; Mozart 250 4:40.

Samba Ottawa play Ano Novo at the Lumiere Festival August 2009:
#3 0:05; #4 0:50; Wave 1:10; Sapucai (signal only!)1:35.

Samba Ottawa play Ano Novo at the CIDA Talent Show November 2009:
Partial entrada 0:00; #3 1:00; Wave 1:40; Tamborim conversation #1 2:40; Eye 3:20; Mozart 2504:25 (Finishes 5:25, then start of Canto Pro Mar).

  Basic Patterns

Single Primeara Pickups feature coming out  of most breaks.
There are exceptions:

Wave Break

No pickup

Break #3

Two boom-booms from Primeira

Mozart 250

None between 'dup, dee-dup ' etc and the basic samba

double pickup between 'boom-boom didddly' stuff and basic samba

Shakers:

The shakers fall silent for most breaks and come back in  after any tam/ entrada,  or right away if there isn't one.

There are exceptions:

Wave Break
Continue normally after the 'waiting ..'

Stop for the rep. chamada (after final 'waiting ...')

Restart after the tam. entrada

Sapucai

Stop after the initial rep. chamada

Restart for the one pattern of basic samba

Stop

Restart after the 'waiting ...' and primeira pickup

Mozart 250

Stop for the funny bits

Restart for the basic samba

Taught to us by Maninho - also below as a Break

single Primeira pick-up

You can hear the original Fanfarra on the Carlinos Brown and Serghio Mendes album 'Brasileiro'.

Each section is call-and-response, usually repeated twice. Here are phrases that Rick Lazar uses for some of the sections:

Rosanna's her name, Rosanna's her name, Rosanna, Rosanna, Rosanna's her name

Note: We've changed the arrangement since this recording: the agogós and shakers don't come in until after the tamborim entrada.

The rep call-and-response ends with rep chamada, then there's a single Primeira pick-up

Just a quick call from the repenique, then the tamborim entrada, then every does the samba.

Listen to the quick entrada

Note: We've changed the arrangement since this recording: the agogós and shakers don't come in until after the tamborim entrada
single Primeira pick-up.

Signal:  3 blasts on apito

Repenique chamada

Everyone stops before the '1'

3 times: 3 hits from the repenique - 3 responses from everyone except shakers

Repenique noodling Bom-bom (i.e. double Primeira pick-up.)

A bit more noodling Bom-bom (i.e. double Primeira pick-up.)

Tamborim entrada

Everyone does the samba!

Listen to Ano Novo Break #3

Signal:   4 blasts on apito

Repenique chamada

Everyone stops on 1

Repenique: da-ka-da-ka-da

Bom-bom (primeiras) bim (secondas) cha (tamborims + jump), bom bim cha, bom bim cha

Bom (Primeira pick-up.)

Everyone does the samba (no tamborim entrada)!

Listen to Ano Novo Break #4

Not perfect: should be 4 apito blasts.

Signal:  long blast on apito

Repenique chamada

Everyone stops on 1

Primeira surdos: boom!

Repenique: brrrrr-da

Primeira surdos: boom!

Tamborims, repenique: (triplets) blueberry, blueberry, crum-ble! (agogós play last note of crum-ble).

Bom (Primeira pick-up.)

Everyone does the samba (no tamborim entrada)!

Listen to Ano Novo Break #5

From Rick Lazar of the Samba Squad, we got the convention that you add five to the number of fingers the mestre holds up, if he/she holds them in front of his/her face.

So, for break #6, the signal is one finger in front of the face (5+1=6). This became known as the 'unibrow' break.

Signal: Four apito blasts with one finger on forehead

'Waiting for my dog spot' (shakers etc stop)

(Surdos:) boom-boom (Others:) cha, boom-boom cha, boom-boom cha

Boom-boom cha boom-cha boom-cha

Boom-boom cha

Boom-boom 'Waiting for my dog spot'

(Repenique:) prrrr

Primeira pick-up.

Tamborim entrada

Everyone does the samba!

Ano Novo - Unibrow break - Vankleek Hill May 2010 (3.2MB wmv):

Signal: Three fingers in front of face

One apito warning with hand signal

Repenique chamada

da-da da-da da-da da-da ch ch

da-da da-da da-da da-da boom boom

da da boom boom da da ch ch

da--da--da..boom boom-boom boom-boom

usual Tamborim entrada

da - rep

ch - high instruments

boom - surdos

Break #8

Here's a recording of the break

Signal: Point to sky, long blast on apito

Repenique chamada

Everyone finishes on '1'

Crescendo: Everyone except shakers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Everyone does the samba!

[in effect, the segunda surdos go: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, where the 7 is the first beat of the samba].

Listen to the Sky break

Signal: Point to eye (or both eyes) - indicate the location
(e.g. "Samba Ottawa in the house, or park etc. ")

One apito warning with hand signal

Repenique chamada

boomta ta tata (all highs with repenique) 3 times (Mama cake Mama)

boom boom boom (cake .. right .. now)

“Samba Ottawa in the house/hall/park/church!” 2 times

Repeat all of the above two more times, but third time, instead of vocals:

Repenique chamada to restart the samba

Tamborim entrada

Listen to the Eye break

Not perfect: shakers & agogós should not come in until after the tamborim entrada.
single Primeira pick-up.

Ano Novo - Eye break - Vankleek Hill May 2010 (5MB wmv):

Signal: Make a big 'wave' sign, 4 apito whistles.

Everyone:'Spot' finish; shakers & caixas continue.

Surdos: Bom-Bim (primeira/segunda, pickup and first beat only). Repeat 9 times. It ties in with the rest of the instruments, so I suggest you learn the break, and don't count 9 times.

Tamborims, repenique & agogós do 3-2 clave. Agogós play 3-2 clave as: lo, lo, lo, hi-hi. Repeat 4 times.

'Spot' finish - everyone stops.

Tamborims do entrada syncopated variant: (Blueberry, blueberry, blueberry, blueberry muffin etc - to be completed).

Listen to The Wave 

Not perfect (we've changed it since this recording): everyone should finish on the second 'spot', then just surdos & tamborims play - like a regular tamborim entrada.

no Primeira pick-up.

Signal: Letter 'L'

Repenique chamada

All Silent except Tamborims..

single Primeira pick-up.

Listen to Liberdade ... Ano Novo - Vankleek Hill May 2010 at 0:30

Signal: (only to tamborims): 'Talking hand', 'number 1'.

Listen to tamborim conversation #1

Not perfect: shakers finish too soon.

Signal: (only to tamborims): 'Talking hand', 'number 2'.

Listen to tamborim conversation #2

Remember conversation #2 by the two distinct hits that start it off and get repeated frequently.

Signal: With both hands, make 'crowd' signal with wiggling fingers.

This break is named after the street in Rio by the sambadromo, where the carnaval competition takes place.

The break is taken from the Enredo Liberdade, Liberdade, by Imperatriz Leopoldinense.

Repenique chamada

All except shakers: Boom-boom boom-boom boom 'I am the greatest'

All except shakers: I am the greatest again

'Waiting for my dog spot'

Prrrda on repenique

single Primeira pick-up.

Samba (no chamada or tamborim entrada)

Listen to Sapucai ... Ano Novo - Vankleek Hill May 2010 at 0:50

Note: Shakers are a bit shakey on the timing!

Signal: Mestre 'plays the violin'

This break was put together for Mozart's 250th birthday. It's based on parts of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Repenique chamada

The rest is complicated to describe, but easier to learn by listening to these 3 audio tracks:Here's Mike's original mash-up to help understand where this break came from

(Eine Xtremely-Kleine Nachtmusik)

This is the version of the Mozart break you should be singing in your head as you play.

Listen to the Mozart 250 break

(starts at 0:20)

Ano Novo - Mozart 250 - Vankleek Hill May 2010 (6.7MB wmv): ??

Waiting For My Dog Spot

then the following TWICE:
A
dup, dee-dup, dee-dup,dee-dup,dee-dup 'Violin Part'

B
boom-boom diddly .. double primeira pickup
 
THREE regular Samba measures 
 
Waiting For My Dog Spot

There - that wasn't difficult! 

Signal: 'Boy Scout' salute twice, 4 blasts on apito.

A 6/4 pattern with a very African feel.

'My Dog Spot' finish, then everyone starts the break on the next bar.

Here's the patterns for all the main instruments, twice through:

Signal: Fist in the air

Listen to the 'Big End' finish

Ano Novo part 1 (mp3 2.5MB) Entrada 0:00; Break #1 1:00; Break #2 1:10; Break #3 1:25; Break #4 1:55; Break #5 2:10; 'Spot' finish 2:20.
Ano Novo part 2 (mp3 4.8MB) Fanfarra 0:00; Sky 1:10; Break #8 1:30; Wave 1:55; Tamborim ride #5 2:20; Tamborim ride #8 3:00; Eye 3:50; Big End 4:45.
Ano Novo part 3 (mp3 3.3MB) Quick entrada 0:00; Unibrow (no repenique flourish) 0:30; Tamborim conversation #1 1:00; Tamborim conversation #2 1:30; Tamborim conversation #3 2:35; 'Spot' finish 3:20.
Ano Novo part 4 (mp3 1.4 MB) Quick entrada 0:00; Liberdade 0:30; Sapucai 0:55; 'Spot' finish 1:20.

Break #1
Signal: One finger

Break #2
Signal: Two fingers

Tamborim conversation #3

Tamborim conversation #3 was inspired by:

Olha a virada tamborim conversation mp3 (Mocidade)

Olha a virada tamborim conversation wav (Mocidade)