Mestre de Bateria

You don't play the drums. You conduct them. Mestre de Bateria puts you in front of the 200-piece drum section of G.R.E.S. Unidos do Farol, a fictional Rio samba school, on parade night at the Sambódromo. The parade clock is running, the stands are singing the samba-enredo, and every wing of the section (surdos, caixas, repiques, tamborins, agogôs and chocalhos) plays what your hands tell it to play. CONDUCT WITH HAND SIGNS Signs scroll toward your whistle line one bar ahead of the moment. Tap for the chamada, swipe up for the bossa, swipe down for the three-hit breque, press and hold to freeze all 200 drummers in a paradinha and let go exactly on the volta. When the tempo drifts, push the section on or pull it back. On the big nights, point at a single wing and give it a solo. THE SECTION PLAYS WHAT YOU SIGNAL The drums are sequenced live from real surdo, caixa, repique, tamborim, agogô…