Thank you Aimee. This is the clearest tutorial and demonstration I can find online that shows cleary how bossa nova sounds and feels to someone who's not familiar with this rhythm!
I absolutely love the Bossa!!!! I was in MS, stationed at Keesler Air Force Base When I first heard the Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz recording of Desfinado. It blew me away!! It got a fair amount of play on the local radio stations. The melodic line and chord changes were nothing like I had ever heard before and yet it made perfect sense. I bought the sheet music and learned to play it on guitar. Finally, I could put my recently learned jazz chords to good use. :-) :-) I really appreciate the good work you do!!
I was always amazed at the drummers' ability to play the complex rhythms. I learned, somewhere along the way, that often there were two drummers involved. BTW, Jobim wrote Desafinado.
You are a really, really, REALLY good teacher. I am so lucky that what you like to teach are the exact things I want to learn. Thank you so much for the knowledge and the motivation.
You are a dream come true as a teacher! Thank you so very much! I'm so broke now but when I hopefully get some this year I'll send you money for the work you put in! Happy musical New Year from this almost 72 yo fan!
Great Aimee! At last South America do exists! Thank you and greetings from Uruguay on the south border of the brazilian south. Now in summer! In a few days the Punta del Este Jazz Festival starts, only 40 km from my home. Last year I went and could listen to the greats performing. Paquito de Rivera is the coordinator. It was amazing for me. Well, thank you again for all your videos! So nice your nephew!!! Have a wondeful 2017!!!
I think it is very interesting how I, being brazilian, have the toughest of times learning jazz overall, but the bossa seems so much easier, while people who grew with a different "foundation" overall have it the other way around(Or maybe I have it the other way around, I dont know :P). Still, such a pleasure seeing João Gilberto featured in a video of yours! Greetings from the land of samba and bossa-nova, Aimee :D
+Leonardo Lanza it makes me so happy for you to say that. I listen to a lot of bossa nova. One of the most beautiful parts of music. I try hard to do it justice! Thank you.
You did it great justice, honestly! I hope someday I can be as complete and competent a musician as you are! Thanks for all the wonderful lessons in both technique and approach!
hello I have a question.. first thanks for your work and time that you use to teach the world. I was a trumpet player who had a good sound but couldn't read music. where would you suggest a beginner start with what you have given? for foundation
+Burdell Byrd if you want to play piano...I'd tell you to look at my "how to accompany yourself" playlist and start at the beginning. Walking bass line first. 🙌🏼
Hello Aimee, Excellent lesson as usual! As a half-brazilian jazz musician I'd recommend listening to Baden Powell. He was one of the best brazilian guitar players and a great reference for more rhythms variations. Cheers
Great video as always Aimee, bossa and samba are so difficult that any time I played it to a Brazilian musician he was a little bit perplexed and he went like: it is not 4/4 it is 2/4... they are not eight notes, they are sixteenths... the anticipation is not straight it should be off tempo otherwise it sounds too stiff and so on... but i will keep trying :)
Great video. I find it interesting that in real life a bossa nova guitarist (when a bass player is present) plods along with rootless chord voicings. (Sure makes it a lot easier to play those exotic chord extensions.) I realize that this has nothing to do with your lesson; it's just an observation. I'll be very interested to see part 2 of this video.
Aha! Like a year after I first watched this, and tried to integrate that second rhythm with what (little) I've learned about the samba rhythm, most of it from the first half of Michael de Miranda's video on the partido alto th-cam.com/video/6Mdu4O8ACAo/w-d-xo.html and finally watched the second half of the video (at 7:01), where he says "most of the time, the Brazilians start with the *second part*", and now I understand *that's what you're doing with that second rhythm! I didn't understand why your explanation seemed reversed from other explanations, but now it makes total sense. Still waiting for your bossa nova tutorial :-)
Thank you Aimee. This is the clearest tutorial and demonstration I can find online that shows cleary how bossa nova sounds and feels to someone who's not familiar with this rhythm!
Too good Aimee! Who needs Sibelius? Can you do a video on comping and soloing for solo piano on a bossa?
+thanks Rick! You're the third person to ask me that within the hour! Rick Beato
Aimee Nolte Something like Wave by Jobim that has a lot of changes :)
I absolutely love the Bossa!!!! I was in MS, stationed at Keesler Air Force Base When I first heard the Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz recording of Desfinado. It blew me away!! It got a fair amount of play on the local radio stations. The melodic line and chord changes were nothing like I had ever heard before and yet it made perfect sense. I bought the sheet music and learned to play it on guitar. Finally, I could put my recently learned jazz chords to good use. :-) :-) I really appreciate the good work you do!!
I was always amazed at the drummers' ability to play the complex rhythms. I learned, somewhere along the way, that often there were two drummers involved. BTW, Jobim wrote Desafinado.
thank for your wises, idea in learning and sharing your family.
Wow!!!! In my opinion one of the best video tutorial on bossa!!! thank you!!
You are a really, really, REALLY good teacher. I am so lucky that what you like to teach are the exact things I want to learn. Thank you so much for the knowledge and the motivation.
You are a dream come true as a teacher! Thank you so very much! I'm so broke now but when I hopefully get some this year I'll send you money for the work you put in! Happy musical New Year from this almost 72 yo fan!
Eva Pettersson I appreciate that, Eva. Thanks a bunch. Hold onto that $ tho. :) I wouldn't want it if it's hard for you to come by. ;)
Great start to Bossa Nova! Trying to compose a bossa and this is a great place to start!! Thanks!
Thank you so much for breaking down these rhythms so well and so patiently!
Great Aimee! At last South America do exists! Thank you and greetings from Uruguay on the south border of the brazilian south. Now in summer!
In a few days the Punta del Este Jazz Festival starts, only 40 km from my home.
Last year I went and could listen to the greats performing. Paquito de Rivera is the coordinator. It was amazing for me.
Well, thank you again for all your videos!
So nice your nephew!!!
Have a wondeful 2017!!!
Daniel Irilarry thanks, Daniel! Churrascaria down there in the south, right?! Yum!!
Yes! Churrascaria is in Brazil, here we call it `parrillada` and in Argentina `parrilla`. Great meat in these lands... !
Ha ha!
Daniel Irilarry amazing meat there Uruguay there are more cows than people as we brazilian know hahaha
Yeah! 12 million cows and only 3,5 million people!!!
But many of us love bossa nova!
Ha ha ha!
Excellent and accessible, clear, illustration. Many thanks. You're really helping me. I'm a bassist (bass guitar). I understand this now.
"I guess you can say bum or
*BOM*" -_Bom Bom flashbacks intensify_
Wonderful teaching!
Agora você deu aula, parabéns!
great lesson aimee. Can't wait to see the follow-up because it's years I've always been wanting to comp bossa properly and I never found my way.
A X1 thanks for your nice comment. I will make another one pretty soon. Listen to guitar players. That's my best advice. That's what I do.
Fantastic lesson thanks.
Bruce Eaton you're welcome, Bruce! Glad you liked it!
Excellent!
Richard Rodriguez aa
I think it is very interesting how I, being brazilian, have the toughest of times learning jazz overall, but the bossa seems so much easier, while people who grew with a different "foundation" overall have it the other way around(Or maybe I have it the other way around, I dont know :P). Still, such a pleasure seeing João Gilberto featured in a video of yours! Greetings from the land of samba and bossa-nova, Aimee :D
+Leonardo Lanza it makes me so happy for you to say that. I listen to a lot of bossa nova. One of the most beautiful parts of music. I try hard to do it justice! Thank you.
You did it great justice, honestly! I hope someday I can be as complete and competent a musician as you are! Thanks for all the wonderful lessons in both technique and approach!
Nicely done! The clap-and-sing method very helpful.
Please do a video sometime on Jobim's "Wave".
A Happy New Year to you Aimee Looks like a nice place i wish we could get some snow,
That's amazing! Congrats!
Thanks Aimee! Could you please do a Bossa improvisation video too?
cocovi soon. Promise.
Aimee Nolte Thanks!
great video! been trying to figure out how to play these.
Aaron Parker good luck, Aaron! Thanks for watching!
Brasilll uhuuuu!
hello I have a question.. first thanks for your work and time that you use to teach the world. I was a trumpet player who had a good sound but couldn't read music. where would you suggest a beginner start with what you have given? for foundation
+Burdell Byrd if you want to play piano...I'd tell you to look at my "how to accompany yourself" playlist and start at the beginning. Walking bass line first. 🙌🏼
Hello Aimee,
Excellent lesson as usual!
As a half-brazilian jazz musician I'd recommend listening to Baden Powell. He was one of the best brazilian guitar players and a great reference for more rhythms variations.
Cheers
Marcelo Danza thank you, Marcelo. I will do that!
I just found your channel Aimee, and all I can say is thanks. You're great and so are your videos! Subbed4Life
Freeman Hubbard that's so nice of you to have subscribed, and to tell me about it! Thank you.
Hey guys I m glad your trying some Bossa Nova. Its really cool. But try also some Music from Bahia and Minas Gerais. Theres a bundle of great songs.
Please play and sing "wave" by tom jobim
Nice, Aimee. I know that second rhythm as "reverse partido alto" - do you have a (different) name for it?
LukeTheringMusic I do not. I'm glad to know that one though. Thank you, Luke.
Sure thing. I know, as with much of music, it's not necessary to put a name/label to things; but for me it helps! :)
For me bossa nova was allways somehow related to snow or white color maybe because it is so cool and fresh :) like if you have same association.
Great video as always Aimee, bossa and samba are so difficult that any time I played it to a Brazilian musician he was a little bit perplexed and he went like: it is not 4/4 it is 2/4... they are not eight notes, they are sixteenths... the anticipation is not straight it should be off tempo otherwise it sounds too stiff and so on... but i will keep trying :)
Francesco Manfredi you are for sure right about that. I would have done better to speak in those terms. Thank you.
swell!
Great video. I find it interesting that in real life a bossa nova guitarist (when a bass player is present) plods along with rootless chord voicings. (Sure makes it a lot easier to play those exotic chord extensions.) I realize that this has nothing to do with your lesson; it's just an observation.
I'll be very interested to see part 2 of this video.
MaxTooney Thanks Max. I agree.
Sou do Brasil vc representou bem nossa Bossa Nova ...its ok hum.. KKK
second line you did very fast , it is hard to keep pace
SARAVAH
Aha! Like a year after I first watched this, and tried to integrate that second rhythm with what (little) I've learned about the samba rhythm, most of it from the first half of Michael de Miranda's video on the partido alto th-cam.com/video/6Mdu4O8ACAo/w-d-xo.html and finally watched the second half of the video (at 7:01), where he says "most of the time, the Brazilians start with the *second part*", and now I understand *that's what you're doing with that second rhythm! I didn't understand why your explanation seemed reversed from other explanations, but now it makes total sense.
Still waiting for your bossa nova tutorial :-)
Thank god for old Brazilian music, because modern Brazilian funk is just shameful. Anyway, great video, keep it up!
Felipe Thiesen thanks, Felipe!