Welcome to our first blog post of 2025. We ended 2024 by looking more closely at the large surdo drums that are, for many people, the...

The first few blog posts on the Worldwise Samba Drummers website were a broad introduction to samba drumming. They explained what samba...

This special additional blog from the Worldwise Samba Drummers is to let you know about our involvement in the Drum For Health project....

Although most people involved in samba drumming in the UK take part in this activity as a member of a community group, you may have...

Although samba drumming was born in Brazil , it has its roots in the music and dance of west Africa. The 19th century Portugese...

Samba drumming is inherently energetic but in order to add even more liveliness to the drumming performance, many samba bands will move...

If you have listened to performances by professional samba bands - some community samba bands too - you might have heard the samba swing

One of the satisfying things about being in a samba band is the way in which, although each section might be playing something

If you have ever seen a samba band in action you may have spotted someone stood in front of the rest of the band

When people first come along to the Worldwise Samba Drummers, one of the first decisions they have to make is what instrument to play?

Welcome to the first Worldwise Samba Drummers blog. In these posts, we will be providing information about the music, instruments,...