Bossa Nova Drumming Trading Fours and Eights – Practice Tracks

Description

Next Level Bossa Nova Drumming

Great drumless tracks to work on your drum solo timing and creativity during your Bossa Nova drumming and Samba drumming fours and eights. Various tempos from smooth Bossa to up-tempo Samba are included.  Master your Brazilian beats with these expertly crafted backing tracks for drums.

This is the sequel to the my popular Trading Fours and Eights Jazz Swing Drumless Tracks Practice System!

Trading Fours And Eights In Bossa Nova Drumming

The idea of trading fours and eights is simple. Another instrumentalist in the band plays a solo for four our eight measures and the drums play a solo for the same amount of time. This continues through the form of the song and usually ends after 1 or 2 choruses.

Most drummers are terrified when it’s their turn to solo for four or eight measures. They often get lost, not knowing when to start or when to end their solos. This collection will help change all of that in your Samba and Bossa Nova drumming.

3 Mix Options To Keep You On Track

If you aren’t sure how long 4 or 8 measures feels, these drumless tracks will help you feel them naturally.  One mix option is with the bass continuing to play during your soloing.  Listening to the bass during you solo will guide you to start and end your solos on time.

Another mix leaves out the bass to let you develop stronger internal time in your playing. The final mix is bass only from start to finish of each song. This allows you to work on the creativity of your solos and develop rhythmic and musical ideas.

The mix versions again are:

• With bass playing during the drums fours and eights
• No bass playing during the drums fours and eights (These are the most challenging)
• Bass only for the entire song

How To Use This To Improve Your Bossa Nova Drumming

Start off with the bass playing during your drumming fours and eights. When you are comfortable, move to the second mix option and see how your timing is without the bass playing during your fours and eights.  This is a HUGE challenge and a very effective way to quickly improve your drum solo timing.

The third option is so you can solo for entire choruses of the song.  Soloing with a bass groove is one of my favorite ways to solo.

Here Are Some Tips For Improving The Solos In Your Bossa Nova Drumming

The most challenging Bossa Nova drumming tracks in this collection are the ones without bass playing behind the drum solo fours and eights. Here are some tips to help you improve your time and master these tracks.

6 tips for the Trading Fours and Eights drumless tracks:

1. Count subdivisions out loud without playing drums to check how accurate your timing is. For example count triplets, 1/4 note triplets or 1/4 notes.
2. Don’t play but sing your solos. This will get you to tap into a greater creative center in your brain and connect you more deeply to the both the music and the pulse of the tempo.
3. Go back to the tracks with the bass and really listen to see if your soloing is lining up with the bass 1/4’s. You’ll probably discover some places where you are naturally speeding up or slowing down. Fix those and then move on to the bass-less tracks again.
4. Play only half note or quarter note drum solos during your fours or eights, nothing fancy. This will force you to focus and line up your playing with the quarter note pulse.
5. All in all, playing with simplicity and focusing on time will serve you well.  After you feel confident playing simply, start to add more notes. 
6. Just keep at it and you will start to feel a more solid pulse during that solo time.

What are the tracks?

These are extended tracks ranging from 4:42-7:22. All 6 tracks are in 4/4 time signatures. Tempos also range from 85 BPM – 260 BPM.

18 TOTAL TRACKS INCLUDE:

• DINDI (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – BASS DURING FOURS – 85 BPM (6:44)
• DINDI (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – BASS ONLY – 85 BPM (6:44)
• DINDI (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – NO BASS DURING FOURS – 85 BPM (6:44)
• GIRL FROM IPANEMA (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – BASS DURING FOURS – 120 BPM (5:50)
• GIRL FROM IPANEMA (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – BASS ONLY – 120 BPM (5:50)
• GIRL FROM IPANEMA (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – NO BASS DURING FOURS – 120 BPM (5:50)
• MANHÃ DE CARNAVAL (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS DURING FOURS AND EIGHTS – 260 BPM (7:22)
• MANHÃ DE CARNAVAL (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS ONLY – 260 BPM (7:22)
• MANHÃ DE CARNAVAL (Chords) – (SAMBA) – NO BASS DURING FOURS AND EIGHTS – 260 BPM (7:22)
• O BARQUINHO (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – BASS DURING EIGHTS AND FOURS – 130 BPM (5:31)
• O BARQUINHO (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – BASS ONLY – 130 BPM (5:31)
• O BARQUINHO (Chords) – (BOSSA NOVA) – NO BASS DURING EIGHTS AND FOURS – 130 BPM (5:31)
• ONE NOTE SAMBA (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS DURING FOURS – 190 BPM (5:26)
• ONE NOTE SAMBA (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS ONLY – 190 BPM (5:26)
• ONE NOTE SAMBA (Chords) – (SAMBA) – NO BASS DURING FOURS – 190 BPM (5:26)
• SÓ DANÇO SAMBA (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS DURING FOURS AND EIGHTS – 180 BPM (4:42)
• SÓ DANÇO SAMBA (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS ONLY – 180 BPM (4:42)
• SÓ DANÇO SAMBA (Chords) – (SAMBA) – BASS DURING FOURS AND EIGHTS – 180 BPM (4:42)

Download includes:

One ZIP file containing 18 individual tracks totaling 133 MB.

Note: Every drumless track collection has unique songs. No songs are shared in multiple collections.

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