Episodes

  • Special Episode - The Rhythm of the Battery: Brazilian Samba Teaching Methods
    Jun 23 2026

    Hey there, here I got another episode for you about samba and its culture. The Brazilian way should I say, here I create this episode from a report made in my (Augusto Santos) days with samba and teaching samba.

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    20 mins
  • Engineering Precision in High School Drumlines
    Jun 23 2026

    Hey welcome to the Rhythm Room, here we got the 4th episode for the podcast. This time I got a text I wrote sometime ago and made it in podcast. Most like a music diary. This time all about music education and about the percussion section. Hope you like it.

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    6 mins
  • Part 2: Leigh Howard Stevens' Method of Movement for Marimba - An Analysis
    Jun 12 2026

    This podcast is a brief summary of Augusto Santos' undergrad conclusion paper for the percussion course at Universidade Federal de Goias in Brazil oriented by dr. Fabio Oliveira. This time we got part 2 with a more in depth analyses. Here Augusto discusses the main points of Leigh Howard Stevens book (MOM) shedding light on its crucial aspects.

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    23 mins
  • How Samba Transformed Rudimental Percussion
    Jun 1 2026

    This is a podcast telling in a brief manner the history of the beginning of Rudimental Percussion in Brazil, which had amongst its main leading pioneers John Grant, Dr. John Wooton and Dr. John E. Boudler.



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    4 mins
  • Leigh Howard Stevens' Method of Movement for Marimba - An Analysis
    May 27 2026

    This podcast is a brief summary of Augusto Santos' undergrad conclusion paper for the percussion course at Universidade Federal de Goias in Brazil oriented by dr. Fabio Oliveira. Here Augusto discusses the main points of Leigh Howard Stevens book (MOM) shedding light on its main aspects.

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    6 mins