Bossa Nova Bass Lines Pdf Files
Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music. When played on the guitar, in a simple one-bar pattern, the thumb plays the bass notes on 1 and 2. BOSSA NOVA FOR GUITAR by Paul Donat. Plays the 'bass notes' on the A(5th) and E. Line from which to create other contrasting ones in order to add your own. Building Bossa Basslines #2: 'The Girl From Ipanema' - Bass Guitar Lesson.
Donate to support the channel: Book a bass lesson with me: My Facebook Musician's Page How to Play Bossa Nova Bass Lines: Upright and Electric Bassist, Jared Plane presents a brief introduction to playing, understanding and improvising a bossa nova style bass line. In this tutorial, Jared discusses some of the key concepts that are essential for constructing strong, bossa nova style bass lines.
Kenny Dorham's hit composition, Blue Bossa, is one of the best tunes for learning this style of bass playing, and is the central focus for this tutorial. Not all of the chords in the progression were covered in this tutorial. A brief outline of the chord progression can be seen below: Blue Bossa is a 16 bar bossa nova composition, consisting of the following chords: Cmi7 Cmi7 Fmi7 Bb7 Dmi7(b5) G7 Cmi7 Cmi7 Ebmi7 Ab7 Dbmaj7 Dbmaj7 Dmi7(b5) G7 Cmi7 Dmi7(b5) G7 The student is encouraged to hunt down a lead sheet version of this composition, for ease of learning and site reading. This composition can be found in many Hal Leonard Real Books, most commonly acquired through Hal Leonard's Real Book, Sixth Edition.
This lesson, Bossa Nova Bass, is an excerpt from the online course, Jazz Bass 2. Jim Stinnett is one of the world’s foremost instructors of both the electric bass as well as the upright. In addition to his teaching duties for over 20 years at Berklee College of Music in Boston (where he is a full Professor), Jim’s expertise in great playing and great pedagogy draw large numbers of students from all over the world to the Stinnett Music programs. In New Hampshire, Jim runs multiple sessions of Bass Workouts, as well as the all-out New Hampshire Bass Fest, annually.
What truly makes Jim’s teaching leaps and bounds better than any other bass education program is his ability to make an idea like this so complete in one stream of thought, yet keep it from being complex enough for the average player to lose interest in the topic. As you will see in this lesson, the art of the Bossa Nova bassline is broken down and explained bit by bit to build a firm, well-informed, and most importantly, musical foundation on the subject. Please note that all notation files can be enlarged upon clicking on them. Introduction Music from many cultures are a vital part of the American music scene today. Bossa Nova is the most popular of all these imported styles.
Bossa Nova is a unique Brazilian style of music that became an integral part of Jazz performance in the 1960s. If you are going to be prepared to work jazz gigs, you must play Bossa Nova well. I recently spent two weeks in Brazil, playing and teaching bass. I want to tell you, these guys are serious about the bass down there. I have never seen as much importance placed on the bass in music. 163 06 Aggiornato Pdf Merge.
Everyone was grooving, soloing, and leading with the bass. While they loved our straight-ahead jazz, they went crazy over our Bossa Nova tunes. We played simple bossa bass lines and killed them with taste. I have listened to and played Bossa Nova tunes for many years. I was always struck by the beauty and power of Bossa Nova bass. The most prolific composer of Bossa Nova style was Antonio Carlos Jobim. Most of Tom Jobim’s songs have become standards in our jazz repertoire.