What is that "whoop whoop" percussion sound in Brazilian music?

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You know the one: "WHOOP-whoopwhoopwhoop," usually at the beginning of the track. What percussion instrument is used for that?

― mike a, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

"Whoop whoop"? That's the sound of the police.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm more cuious about the *peeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww* whistle sound thing in early hip hop (last heard on that solo album by the guy from Jurassic 5)

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

"Whoop whoop"? That's the sound of the police.

How'd I know that was coming?

― mike a, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

it's a jug

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Serious answer: the cuica!

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Brazilian Afro-Cuban Percussion Instrument Roll Call

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

It looks like this:

http://www.emiliano.com/cuica.JPG

― Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

How'd I know that was coming?

I like to be predictable.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

It's all part of creating a posting personality. A ghosting personality. A posting, ghosting personality.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

"Whoop whoop"? That's the sound of the police

Fuck, Dan beat me to it.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

It looks like this

you rub the pink-shirted part

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

dear god i'm sorry

― jones (actual), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

It's called a cuica, or am I wrong? I know it works on the same principle of pulling a straw through a whole in a plastic cup.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh sorry, someone beat me to it. I am a dukmb.,

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I know it works on the same principle of pulling a straw through a whole in a plastic cup, attaching it to another cup, and talking to the guy in the next tent about the girls in the other tent.

We plan to put frogs in their tent!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

The cuica, aka the drum that sounds like monkeys fucking.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Charo must love this drum.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Because lord knows Charo like fucking monekys.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

likes even.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

cuica cuica cuica

― The Ghost of We Have Ruined This Lovely Thread (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Can I get a...

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i have one. i musta bought a bass version, because mine sounds more like burps and farts

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

woop woop!

― delayed dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Charo be fucking monkeys!

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Poor, poor monkeys...

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Really it's to lure lions, allegedly, as I said on the other thread.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I lhove they monkees
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2003/Mar/30/charo_b.jpg

Charo was mean to me
http://hem.passagen.se/maryissa/Foton/MonChichi.gif

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

My daughter bought me the Miles Davis Different Kind of Blue DVD for Father's Day and there's a lot of good footage of Airto Moreira playing one of these things. He rubs a cloth (probably damp to get more friction) on the sides from the inside with his right hand, and presses against the skin with his right to get changes in pitch.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

bubb rubb

― Captain Entropy (Captain Entropy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

He rubs a cloth (probably damp to get more friction) on the sides from the inside with his right hand, and presses against the skin with his right to get changes in pitch.

you're close. there's actually a stick on the inside attached to the drum head. you rub this (yes, with a damp cloth) back and forth and push down on the skin to change the pitch.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

george clinton knows exactly when to bring the whoouhuhuheeuheeuhp. so tasty.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I've never seen one of those things up close and didn't know about the stick. That makes two things I've learned today!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

The thing that makes the who-who-WHOO-who-who-WHOO sound is second only to the thing that goes pyow pyoo-pyoo pyow pyoo-pyoo pyow-ow

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

a berimbau.
it goes berimbaubim bimbau bim bimbau ow ow.
viva brasilia.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 23 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

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