5 Steps to Bossa Nova Guitar
In this acoustic guitar lesson, I'm taking a musical vacation to Brazil and the glorious rhythms and harmony of Bossa Nova and the godfather of the style, João Gilberto. This isn't just a great route into Jazz tunes that require a 'Latin Feel', but can give you the tools for improving hand/finger and limb independence and improve your overall rhythmic security. It's also a great opportunity to level up your knowledge of chords/extensions! Although this is played on the traditional classical guitar, these ideas can easily be transferred to the electric.
(It's also worth noting that all my examples use 2/4 bars which is the traditional Brazilian way of feeling/counting Bossa).
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Content:
0:00 Intro
1:00 A Brief History & João Gilberto
1:53 Step 1: Basic One Bar Bossa Pattern
3:42 One Bar Pattern Chord Progression
4:23 Step 2: Two Bar Pattern
5:55 Adding Some Basic Jazz Harmony
7:01 Step 3: Harmonic Anticipation
8:01 Gilberto Style Descending Chord Variation
8:44 Alternating Root/5th Bass Notes
9:55 Another Chord Variation
10:19 Step 5: Reversing the Two Bar Rhythm
11:27 Using Ghost Notes
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