I'm Romero Lubambo and today we're going to talk about some simple secrets
to play for example bossa nova we have many different rhythms that come from
Brazil and we're going to to talk about all of them with those lessons
but right now I would like to present some simple secrets to play better the
bossa nova to have a little bit more of the feeling you know first of all the
bossa nova came from the Samba type of pattern just slowing down and using
different chords and we have to do what our fingers on the guitar we have to do
what the percussion players do and that's called samba in the carnival parade
for example this fight there are 500 guys playing percussion so we have to
translate that into the guitar and so we have to think about those three fingers
playing harmony the thumb playing the bass or the roll of what we call the
pseudos in the left hand playing the chords and so everything every one of
these elements are very important to present very well the type of music that
you playing whatever it is but bossa nova is very specific so let's think
about first of all the thumb a lot of people don't know what to do with the
thumb and I think the simplest thing to think is to the thumb would play quarter
notes only quarter notes related with the chord that you're playing for example if
you play A major
so the thumb is playing only quarter notes I'm thinking about the guy playing the
percussion pseudos he's marking the tempo for everybody else to play the other
instruments on top of that and the right the three fingers here pulling the
strings that plucking the strings at up actually showing the chords I like
to think about those guys the way the tambourine plays
that's what they do so
this is the basic thing so I'm imitating on the guitar the percussion ensemble
translating to the fingers here so if you put together tambourines here with a
pseudos here we have
so this is a simple thing to practice keeping it the thumb playing just quarter notes
this is simple to start so I think for now would be a good practice to just
practice those partners with different chords
you can do so much with just this
same thing as always
Chao