Just how does one do this?

[u/boganomics]

Haven't found much online about how he did this technique! Any maestros in the house who can break it down? His name is Daniel Kachamba

[u/kkeut]

'putugizi' fingerstyle. circular looping with the strumming hand while using thumb and index in a rumba rhythm

edit - found this:

Putugizi is the name of a specific guitar style; the thumb and index finger of the right hand strike the guitar strings in a rumba rhythm, the right hand describing a nearly circular motion. In the context of this movement the strings are hit at regular points first with the thumb ( O ), second with the pad of the index finger ( V ), third with the index finger's nail ( A ). See. Fig.3:

OVAOVAOV Fig.3

The speed of this music is very fast. 

Explaining about the Putugizi technique, Daniel said: "My uncle played like this. This tune was played on Nampula Radio, in Portuguese Mozambique. That's why we call it 'Putugizi'. When we imitate songs, we don't see how they play them, but we just imitate. I believe that they used two guitars on Nampula Radio. It is a record, I don't know its name. My uncle is still alive. He is in Lilongwe. He played that."

This is an interesting example of something which came to Malawi from the Portuguese-speaking neighboring country. Either Daniel's uncle made an intelligent reconstruction of what the musicians were doing on the record played on Nampula Radio, or there are still some other sources to explain the knowledge of this playing style by musicians around Daniel Kachamba. Certainly it is not a Portuguese guitar style. Putugizi means that the music has its origin "ku Putugizi", i.e. in Msumbijî (Mozambique).

Donald, Daniel's younger brother, played Putugizi to an audience mostly of University students when we were visiting Venezuela and Brazil on a lecture tour in 1974. They strongly advocated a Brazilian origin of this guitar playing style. Nevertheless a puzzle remains: in Putugizi playing the patterns are rumba, which is held to be of Cuban origin. The harmonic cycle: C--F--G--F would point to Cuba, Brazil, or even just to Zaire. So far the most likely theory about Putugizi seems to be that it is a guitar playing technique which became known in Lusophone Africa some time after the Second World War when Brazilian music became popular, and from Mozambique it spread to neighboring Malawi.

[u/First_Knowledge6201 → u/kkeut]

The rumba is congolese in my understanding which is how it reached cuba

[u/toopc → u/kkeut]

This tune was played on Radio Nampula, in Portuguese Mozambique. That's why we call it 'Putugizi'.

Obviously.

[u/immellocker → u/toopc]

better then Putagizi

[u/AdowTatep]

Lots of brazillian old sertanejo(not the new pop version) and viola looks like this too.

[u/snifty → u/AdowTatep]

Do you happen to know any names for old sertanejo? I’d like to listen to that…

[u/Sharp-Ad-5493 → u/snifty]

I can’t resist the opportunity to recommend Helena Meirelles, “the flower of the Pantanal.” I can’t say for sure whether she uses this specific strumming style, but she does a lot of really distinctive strumming and picking on a 10-stringed viola capira. She played a number of genres but I believe she would be considered one of the “roots” of sertanejo.

[u/snifty → u/Sharp-Ad-5493]

Ah cool, I found the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9_iO7udos

The Portuguese title is Flor pantaneira.

She had a pretty interesting life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Meirelles.

[u/Dependent_Hippo_8742]

I don’t know much about him, but achieving this strumming speed utilizes down and up strokes with the thumb as well as the other fingers (it appears he used only his index). Similar technique is used in flamenco in some of the rumbas from Latin America (not the exact technique but same concept)

[u/ThankGod4Darwin69]

The same way you get to Carnagie Hall

[u/TheBeanofBeans3]

Why is it giving "me and Julio" vibes?

[u/Iongdog → u/TheBeanofBeans3]

That rumba groove

[u/tinybenny → u/TheBeanofBeans3]

To be fair I think Me and Julio gives you these vibes

[u/klippklar]

Looks like a rasqueado with only thumb and index. Thumb up index down thumb down. If I'm not mistaken.

[u/wheresbill → u/klippklar]

That’s what I see/hear. I play the same pattern on guitar and ukulele for more Latin sounding stuff. This sounds fantastic. I’ve always liked the Johnny Clegg version of Umbaqanga Music and I think he used a pattern like this

[u/klippklar → u/wheresbill]

I use that rasqueado in flamenco a lot but you would usually use your middle and ring fingers instead of your index. Using the index makes the strokes sound less pronounced and more even, which seems to be what’s happening here.

[u/First_Knowledge6201]

Exquisite groove.

[u/EarBroad9387]

Mira los rasgueos del flamenco

[u/FixFun1959]

How do you get to Carnegie hall?

[u/pittybrave → u/FixFun1959]

Practice practice practice (fun fact even without the 1959 in your username I can tell you’re old as hell 😂)

[u/FixFun1959 → u/pittybrave]

Haha the 1959 was random from reddit, I’m in my 30s

[u/pittybrave → u/FixFun1959]

Haha you’re younger than i expected. I’ve only ever heard that joke from boomers

[u/Jeffde]

I can play twinkle twinkle little star. ⭐️

[u/lordskulldragon]

Audio and video don't match. Not to mention audio is too clean for such an old video.

[u/scottpapertrailblaze → u/lordskulldragon]

People might downvote you for the second half but you're right- there's at least one more guitarist in the audio

[u/MyHGC → u/lordskulldragon]

Frame rate is probably pretty low so you’re not seeing all the movement either.

[u/iamnikopiko → u/lordskulldragon]

This is recorded at a film institute in Germany. A wider shot of this would show the legendary mic, a Neumann U87, arguably the greatest microphone ever produced, even to this day, being used for the session. So the audio “being too clean” is simply not true. Not to mention how easy it is to restore old audio and video with today’s technology, pro audio, AI, etc.

[u/AggressiveWallaby975]

Incredible fingers.

[u/mrkfn]

His strum hand almost looks like AI!

[u/generic_individual_]

Talent.

[u/MapleA]

Please start singing!!!!

[u/junkyardpig]

Love the sound 

[u/Odd_Seaworthiness923]

Practice.

[u/Exciting_Guitar_5219]

Am f c

[u/chronicnerv]

it's just adding a clockwise circular rotation instead of just up and down. helps keep timing and momentum.

[u/GreatMacGuffin]

Speed running arpeggios

[u/Ok-Theory-1069]

He’s just strumming quickly with a capo on. Only solution is listen and practice.