It could be sure that music is one of the most influential factors in capoeira, as this marks the rhythm of the players, the rate at which they have to adapt the level of aggressiveness to be used, the type of movements, the type of capoeira, the tone of the celebration.
An expert in capoeira, only moving to a "wheel" and listening to the taps of the berimbau could learn all these concepts.


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The teacher describes the music in the world of capoeira with these words.

"O ritmo é a batida do coração na capoeira ea música é a alma. A música pode volver um jogo rapido e agresiva huevo Cham os capoeiristas para mostraremos suas abilidades no jogo ou faze-los relembrarem da velha sabedoria. Sem música en capoeira mete incompleta "

Translation:

The soul of capoeira is the pace and rhythm of the music. With music we can find out if it is a fast, aggressive game and the type of capoeira to the capoeiristas display their abilities in the game and show their wisdom. Capoeira is incomplete without music.

The first musical events were not recorded, so you cannot know precisely where they originated. Most historians do not venture to say when the first songs were built.
The slaves used music in a religious sense, considering the music sounds as a gift.
Dance in contact with music took on a ritual character, by which it could welcome the unknown, and they gave thanks for their lives and culture.
At first the music of capoeira was based on something like a tambourine, hand’s hits and feet’s hits, later using the sounds of different strokes of wood, the theories say that it just began to emerge from early wooden instruments.
Besides the sounds of capoeirista nature marked the scale, in addition to imitating the movements of wild animals also plays your music sounds, effect for many years.

After a few years trying to improve this sounds, began to develop devices of all kinds with all kinds of materials as well get some tunes very characteristic of capoeira, where the berimbau, the pandeiro, the caxixi, and many other instruments are characteristic, music was one of the factors that helped to hide the part of capoeira to the Portuguese.
When the wheels were made full of sounds, was a feast of rhythms and songs shorter, where sensibility is expressed freely. The fight / dance is accompanied by a dance and singing.
Music is essential in capoeira, is the root and body art, the melody comes from the berimbau, atabaque, geese, agogos, tambourines, and everything is a sound and a corresponding movement.
In addition, the lyric of the songs is very important because it tells anecdotes, tales of the great capoeiristas, tips and bits of philosophy capoeirista.

Musical order in the "roda"

There is a very strict order referring to the music, follow a few steps are as follows.


1 - The first step where the master of the wheel begins to play the unaccompanied berimbau, or musical and vocal type, plays the berimbau with a touch anyone, that if, always lively and characteristic of that teacher.

2 - After the teacher has touched all other instruments are put into operation, whether the remaining berimbau or all percussion instruments.

3 - The teacher is still playing the berimbau and simultaneously begins to sing a Ladinho.

4 - The teacher and the choir (while playing instruments) singing a cool entry or

5 - When the entry just the teacher and the choir began corridos

6 - When the teacher gives a signal the end music and corridos.



Different types of songs

The best-known songs are Ladainha for capoeira, cool and calendar, so we define each:

1 - Ladainha: the Ladainha only sings the master when the wheel no physical contact between capoeiristes, the Ladainha only prepare what will be a wheel. The letter serves to remind Ladainha the last hard capoeiristes capoeira, teachers' advice and philosophy of ancient capoeira.

Ladainha example, "Coconut Shell" by the teacher bigodinho

Ô casca de coco
Colega casca de coco
Quero ver caxuleta
Colega casca de coco
Quero ver caxuleta
Eta eta quero ver caxuleta
Colega Indererê
Quem bate panderio é homem
Quem bate palma é mulher
Vou lhe dizer uma coisa
Vou lhe dizer uma coisa
Você pode acreditar
Todas Maria são santa
Tem a natureza má
De um nó esconde a ponta
Pra você não desatar
Camaradinho, é hora é hora

2 - Chula: here in the "lovely" when the game starts and physical capoeiristes based on the game, the music now goes into the background although capoeiristes have to pay attention to rhythm sung by them also change the style game, you can not sing a angolenya cool and make the game capoeiristes high and fast, it would be inappropriate and demonstrate the limited knowledge of the players.

Chula example, "Vail Menino" by the teacher cinzento

Vai lá menino
Faz a brincadeira
Mostra pra esse povo
O que é a capoeira
Vai lá menino
Faz a brincadeira
Mostra pra esse povo
O que é a capoeira
Capoeira é arte
Capoeira é dança
Capoeira também é
Brincadeira de criança
Vai lá menino...
No toque da regional
É malandragem a roda inteira
No toque do berimbau
Tem a noite inteir Vai lá menino...

3 - Corrida: singing begins when you have finished the chula, involving all members of the wheel with short stanzas (almost always 4 stanzas) of these four stanzas always repeats camo taper block. These songs have a poetic tone and explain the author's personal things.
Whenever the choir will sing the block, the other verses depend on the author, perhaps carries the whole song in chorus or just one stanza.

Example of run, "canarinha" Teacher Cinzano

Olha aí meu canarinho
Curió me chamou
Meu canarinho
Curió me chamou
Êêê canarinho, canarinho
Curió me chamou