i'm listening to every version of this song on youtube. your rendition is perfect -- very much in tune with the spirit of the composition, sleek and inventive without being showy. a joy to listen to.
Thank you, I grew up in Curacao(close to Venezuela), so I grew up listening to lot's of latin, from young age I always Improvised,for me that's the essence of Music, it's like a conversation,who knows where it will lead us too,I love the unexpected, greets Victor.
Yes cassinell guess you could say that, I love the brazilian style,full of harmony, rich rhythms and Images that cross the mind when listening,greets Vic.
Victor That was beautiful. Your never disapointing with your music. Like I said befor: Your love for music and hard work shows in all your videos. Thanks for sharing. Russ
Congratulations !!! Amazing ! I have never seen any not Brazilian playing Bossa Nova like you. (I'm from Brazil) I play piano and I know that Bossa Nova is very challenging and great to play. You played by hart ! Perfect! A+
It is great arrangement the theme is played fantastic, love the way you are thinking with chords, and this guitar apeals more to my ear but I am a jazz box fanatic. The sound and playing- top grade 5 stars man.....
Ola Victor Sou Brasileiro e apaixonado pelas composições do Tom Jobin. Sua versão para "Wave" é uma das mais bonitas que ouvi. Parabens voce é um guitarrista maravilhoso. Abraço
Thanks Larwin,the daily practice sessions and the love for music is paying off now, I always tell Musicians put in your Heart and Soul and it can't go wrong,and ofcourse patience(a scarse good these days)greets Vic.
I can Imagine, this is another world than Rock, there's lot's of Harmony and melody going on and certainly comparable with Jazz,you really got to "dig in" and put quite some time in this style to be able to play it. Greets footcandy,Victor.
You have a fabulous set of fingers...excellent playing. You really make it look easy with your very smooth rhythm, which makes it even more impossible to duplicate! Thanks so much for sharing your stuff!
Very very nice. I've always wanted to learn to play like that. I idolized Joe Pass growing up, but learned to play more in a Hendrix/Santana rock style. Thanks for posting this. It is now added to my favorites.
Fantastico! I have been learning this piece and it is great to see a master chord melody player lay it down. I sometimes get stuck playing in the same positions. It's very helpful to watch you play and is quite soothing to the mind! Bravo Victor! Ambrose
A five-star, as allways, Victor. I especially like your ending of the second A on the first chorus of improvisation. Great tension! And I also like the way you treat that bridge - not easy to make sense, there. But easy for you... Thx 4 sharing!
Thank you Edson,brazilian music has always inspired me,because of the quality of most compositions, like Jobim,absolutely great what that man has wrote in his lifetime, deep respect,greets Victor.
Thanks, my father once told me Vic,Music is an uncertain life but if you incist on doing it you better put in everything you got and I guess I followed his "wise" advise.All the best Russ.
Very good playing, the tone is to die for, incredible fluidness to the whole thing! Trying to learn it myself, but for someone whom only have been playing for 2 years, it's quite hard, but I'm not giving up, but I've realized that it's gonna take a lot of work, soul & time to get it to the level which you've acheived! Wonderful playing once again!
Obrigado por uma versão tão bonita de uma das músicas que mais admiro do Tom Jobim. Parabéns sua habilidade e o timbre da sua guitarra são maravilhosos. Thank you for such a beautiful version of one of the songs that I admire most from Tom Jobim. Congratulations your skill and the timbre of your guitar are wonderful.
Thank you for your very uplifting comment, I really enjoy the Music of the great Brazilian composers with great rhythm, harmony and melody, glad you enjoyed and always welcome to my music channel,greetings Vic.
Thank you John, yes indeed in the beginning I had to fight my way through the chords but after a while I started discovering the logic and again I learned a few things,Jobim is a great composer I think, greets Vic.
Thanks Alex,you're giving me boost brother,for so long just a few people responded to my older work,I started feeling everybody takes all for granted but when such a great player like yourself comes by with all these fantastic comments it really does something,thanks for the inspiration,Vic.
Very enjoyable performance Victor ! Your improvisations always impress ! Your choice of notes is really unusual. warm regards Domingos PS I really think NAUDO and you should do a duo ! Wow !
Thanks Jogi, well somethings might look simple but sometimes I have a deep meditation about some parts how to tackle them,this tune has a lot of chords man and it has to make sense,you've got to feel the form,greets Victor.
Perfect,my friend,as I can see you master the guitar.5 STARS from me,in my opinion this is the best cover of "Wave" in youtube.Your Ibanez sounds perfectly,very warm and deep tone.I hope you'll neer stop uploading blues guitar videos.
I've just found you on my friends favs... You are great, loved this one and now I'm looking forward to watch the other videos you've posted. Thanks for sharing your talent! 5/5
Hi Spiow, thank you, man I really don't know how many, I mostly Jam for a while getting in the Mood of the Tune,mostly I'd say 2 up to 4 takes,no more.greets Vic.
No importa Naudo habla un poco espanol y podemos communicar, gusta las compositiones de Jobim mucho siempre hay lindas melodias y Cuerdas, qui sas un dia voy a Tenerife y tocamos juntos(quando tengo bastante dinero)hasta luego Amigo,muchas gracias por tu commentario, Victor
Wow, Vic, what a great jazzman you are, Wave is surely my favorite Jobim's song, and your way to play it enjoy me so much, 6 minutes on that clip is too short for me... cheers friend !
+michel morissette Thanks Michel for checking me out, Jobim is certainly one of my favorite composers, such good tunes, rich in in harmony and melody a must for every serious musician, that was a good statement 6 min is too short :-) keep good, greetings mon ami Vic.
Thanks Ambrose for your supporting words, it's not easy finding good working voicings over the range of the whole instrument but keep working at it and most of all understand your theory,it sure helps,Vic.
Hi Wyldelyfe, You got the right motivation,don't give up,learn your Tools,scales,arpeggios, know where modulation occurs,those are the main things of course solid rhythm,you've got to love the Music then it will come in time,greets Vic thanks for your fine comment.
Thanks Jim, great comment, you're right I'm not playing to impress people,I'm trying to play the Ideas I hear in my head,and I play in service of Music.
Hi Terry, glad that many Music lovers and interested people visit my channel and leave all these kind and supporting comments here, also thanks for subscription ,indeed there's lots of Material here that I've gathered over the years of musicianship,we'll be hearing from each other.greets Vic.
Hi dronai, I think I do a lot intuitively,I just listen what the Tunes needs and pick a choice of technique I can use,of course I have studied those techniques, greets Vic.
Thanks evanhue1030, nothing wrong with Hendrix/ Santana style,I like that very much too, in this style I learned harmonic and melodic refinement (with all respect to the other styles) greets Vic.
Amazing, as always. What a terrific sense of timing and color you have. Any chance you can articulate your solo ideas? Mine sound like crap, and I'm trying to learn how to solo over the changes and make it meolodic. Many thanks for your inspiration!
Thanks fred, Herb Ellis was the first Jazzguitarist I heard play this tune and it was love at first hearing,Jobim is a great composer,what do you think of Stan Getz? Gr Victor.
Thanks picknpaws, well try downloading "Band in a box" (demo version) it's a very user friendly program you can generate your own accompaniment with fairly easy, greetings Vic.
@gabriel19551 Thanks, I'm sorry I did this one totally by ear listening to Jobim's version, I've done many tabs on finger style tunes but I think I'm going to stop it because nobodies willing to pay a fee for all my extra work,cheers Vic.
Thanks dle77,it's a long of trial and error and especially persistence,in these times most guys are not willing to take that road,they want everything by pressing a knob,doesn't work with Music, grets Vic.
Hi Vic I'm going to ask if their any chance you could teach this song on U tube I've been trying to learn this song I know theirs a lot people teaching it but this is the best!
Hi darylwerth, thank you, it's an Ibanez GB20(taken out production years ago) Someone who doesn't play guitar doesn't understand why I have several instruments, every guitar has a distinctive sound and I use them all on the Tube as well, a strat for instance is a totally other story then this instrument. You're welcome for the Clinic,enjoy my music,greets Victor.
Wat een lekker nummer is dat toch Vic , weer geweldig gespeeld joh, maar ik heb er ook weer een nieuwe opgezet ,als je naar ( Willdvd Kees Nipius Embreceable You ) gaat dan zie je hoe ik weer een stukje Jazz in elkaar geflanst hebt ,misschien wel aardig .groetjes Kees en blijven pingelen Vic je bent de beste
Yeah John,it is a difficult chordprogression and at certain points you really got to know what you are doing melodically, still there's a logic in this tune but this is too complex to explain in this limited answer, as with much music you have to do your meditating and thinking,this indeed one of my favourite Bossa's such a great melody and chordprogression,greets Vic.
No Matter Pat,just keep your own tempo man,who's payin' you? why bother with crazy folks like me, however a little crazyness makes the world go round,thanks man,greets Vic.
Excellent! Have you seen a lead sheet anywhere on line with all the chords to this piece? I'm a guitarist but I'm taking violin lessons and also learning the flute on my own. I do a lot of recording and this would be a beautiful piece to try to put together.
Bonjour, de la super musique, peut-ont obtenir les partitions ou tablatures de vos arrangements ? merci et encore congratulations for you excellent music Michel
Thanks so much Pepe, you're a Natural man,all you play comes from the Soul,and that checking is vica versa my friend,more than welcome,greets Vic.
i'm listening to every version of this song on youtube. your rendition is perfect -- very much in tune with the spirit of the composition, sleek and inventive without being showy. a joy to listen to.
Thanks Joao, right,people like Jobim will always remain a source of inspiration and excellent harmony,greets Vic.
Thank you, I grew up in Curacao(close to Venezuela), so I grew up listening to lot's of latin, from young age I always Improvised,for me that's the essence of Music, it's like a conversation,who knows where it will lead us too,I love the unexpected, greets Victor.
Thanks elgranporo, talent combined with discipline and hard work, saludos Vic.
Yes cassinell guess you could say that, I love the brazilian style,full of harmony, rich rhythms and Images that cross the mind when listening,greets Vic.
Victor That was beautiful. Your never disapointing with your music. Like I said befor: Your love for music and hard work shows in all your videos. Thanks for sharing. Russ
Congratulations !!! Amazing !
I have never seen any not Brazilian playing Bossa Nova like you. (I'm from Brazil) I play piano and I know that Bossa Nova is very challenging and great to play. You played by hart ! Perfect! A+
It is great arrangement the theme is played fantastic, love the way you are thinking with chords, and this guitar apeals more to my ear but I am a jazz box fanatic. The sound and playing- top grade 5 stars man.....
You're an inspiration to many, Vic! Not that I can play a single note ... regrettably.
One of my favorite Jobim toons! Nicely done! "vijf penta-pointers"
Ola Victor
Sou Brasileiro e apaixonado pelas composições do Tom Jobin.
Sua versão para "Wave" é uma das mais bonitas que ouvi. Parabens voce é um guitarrista maravilhoso.
Abraço
Hi, great Job victor!!you re a very good guitar player! tech and feeling like brazilian musicians on bossa nova`s ! Regards from Brazil!
Edson!
Thanks Larwin,the daily practice sessions and the love for music is paying off now, I always tell Musicians put in your Heart and Soul and it can't go wrong,and ofcourse patience(a scarse good these days)greets Vic.
I love it. Bossanova will always be my favourity. Excelent execution. Groeten Joao
I can Imagine, this is another world than Rock, there's lot's of Harmony and melody going on and certainly comparable with Jazz,you really got to "dig in" and put quite some time in this style to be able to play it. Greets footcandy,Victor.
You have a fabulous set of fingers...excellent playing. You really make it look easy with your very smooth rhythm, which makes it even more impossible to duplicate! Thanks so much for sharing your stuff!
Assolutamente geniale.Complimenti.Saluti dalla Sicilia!!
Very very nice. I've always wanted to learn to play like that. I idolized Joe Pass growing up, but learned to play more in a Hendrix/Santana rock style. Thanks for posting this. It is now added to my favorites.
Wonderful. Love your style of playing. I can only hope to be half that good.
Fantastico! I have been learning this piece and it is great to see a master chord melody player lay it down. I sometimes get stuck playing in the same positions. It's very helpful to watch you play and is quite soothing to the mind! Bravo Victor! Ambrose
Great playing...nice use of chords. I like this one a lot. You have a great song list.
A five-star, as allways, Victor. I especially like your ending of the second A on the first chorus of improvisation. Great tension! And I also like the way you treat that bridge - not easy to make sense, there. But easy for you... Thx 4 sharing!
Magnífico !!! Muito linda interpretação!!!...
Thank you Edson,brazilian music has always inspired me,because of the quality of most compositions, like Jobim,absolutely great what that man has wrote in his lifetime, deep respect,greets Victor.
Thanks, my father once told me Vic,Music is an uncertain life but if you incist on doing it you better put in everything you got and I guess I followed his "wise" advise.All the best Russ.
never bored when hearing in the now of so ligh melodies , merci monsieur Vic ...keep on driftin , ;;;
Thanks Denise,only three words; Practice-listen-practice.greets Victor.
Thanks, it's a great composition and love to play it,such chordprogressions never wear out,greets Victor.
Sweet version, very good voicings! Good work!
Thanks, just keep on going with the love for music and you will,greets Vic.
vary nice Victor....wonderfull
Very good playing, the tone is to die for, incredible fluidness to the whole thing! Trying to learn it myself, but for someone whom only have been playing for 2 years, it's quite hard, but I'm not giving up, but I've realized that it's gonna take a lot of work, soul & time to get it to the level which you've acheived! Wonderful playing once again!
Some nice tasty chords there Victor,brilliant as usual!!
Impecable Vic.Very good improvitation.I had checked before,even i think I left a video response(5*)..Ill keep checking your work my friend
Obrigado por uma versão tão bonita de uma das músicas que mais admiro do Tom Jobim. Parabéns sua habilidade e o timbre da sua guitarra são maravilhosos.
Thank you for such a beautiful version of one of the songs that I admire most from Tom Jobim. Congratulations your skill and the timbre of your guitar are wonderful.
Thank you for your very uplifting comment, I really enjoy the Music of the great Brazilian composers with great rhythm, harmony and melody, glad you enjoyed and always welcome to my music channel,greetings Vic.
Thank you John, yes indeed in the beginning I had to fight my way through the chords but after a while I started discovering the logic and again I learned a few things,Jobim is a great composer I think, greets Vic.
From Brasil Tom Jobim talent
Thanks Alex,you're giving me boost brother,for so long just a few people responded to my older work,I started feeling everybody takes all for granted but when such a great player like yourself comes by with all these fantastic comments it really does something,thanks for the inspiration,Vic.
Very enjoyable performance Victor ! Your improvisations always impress ! Your choice of notes is really unusual.
warm regards Domingos
PS I really think NAUDO and you should do a duo ! Wow !
Thanks Jogi, well somethings might look simple but sometimes I have a deep meditation about some parts how to tackle them,this tune has a lot of chords man and it has to make sense,you've got to feel the form,greets Victor.
Perfect,my friend,as I can see you master the guitar.5 STARS from me,in my opinion this is the best cover of "Wave" in youtube.Your Ibanez sounds perfectly,very warm and deep tone.I hope you'll neer stop uploading blues guitar videos.
Fantastic!! Yay You!
@MrJimdeb Thanks, I like doing many types of Music but Jazz,Blues and finger style are my favorites,greetings Vic.
Excellent, Vic. Superb chord melody phrasing and soloing. Always enjoy your work.
I've just found you on my friends favs...
You are great, loved this one and now I'm looking forward to watch the other videos you've posted. Thanks for sharing your talent!
5/5
Thank you,I don't speak Brazilian but I got your message, glad you enjoyed my friend,greets Victor.
Qué envidia. What envy you I have ....... Gracias por ofrecerme esta música.
Eres grande Victor.....
Looks like a Ibanez George Benson model with that smooth L5 sound and acoustic appointments. Love your jazz style.
+SuperCarver2011 Indeed an old Ibanez GB, glad you enjoyed,greets Vic.
+Jazzguts; It's got a great L5 tone. I like these older Ibanez models over what he's playing now..some of his signature models.
Thanks Czerviper, keep on working, practicing and you'll succeed,greets Vic.
another great video from Victor!
Fantástico!!!! Amei!!!
Beautiful job! How did I miss this one?
Hi Spiow, thank you, man I really don't know how many, I mostly Jam for a while getting in the Mood of the Tune,mostly I'd say 2 up to 4 takes,no more.greets Vic.
Class pure class
Thanks drxl44, listeners can also have great musical ears and contribute in being a great audience, very Important,Vic.
No importa Naudo habla un poco espanol y podemos communicar, gusta las compositiones de Jobim mucho siempre hay lindas melodias y Cuerdas, qui sas un dia voy a Tenerife y tocamos juntos(quando tengo bastante dinero)hasta luego Amigo,muchas gracias por tu commentario, Victor
you are fantastic!
Wow, Vic, what a great jazzman you are, Wave is surely my favorite Jobim's song, and your way to play it enjoy me so much, 6 minutes on that clip is too short for me... cheers friend !
+michel morissette Thanks Michel for checking me out, Jobim is certainly one of my favorite composers, such good tunes, rich in in harmony and melody a must for every serious musician, that was a good statement 6 min is too short :-) keep good, greetings mon ami Vic.
Thanks Ambrose for your supporting words, it's not easy finding good working voicings over the range of the whole instrument but keep working at it and most of all understand your theory,it sure helps,Vic.
Hi Wyldelyfe, You got the right motivation,don't give up,learn your Tools,scales,arpeggios, know where modulation occurs,those are the main things of course solid rhythm,you've got to love the Music then it will come in time,greets Vic thanks for your fine comment.
Thanks harwood,always welcome,Vic.
Thanks Jim, great comment, you're right I'm not playing to impress people,I'm trying to play the Ideas I hear in my head,and I play in service of Music.
Thanks Sista,thought the same bout you when you were singing. Nice off topic,lol greets Vic.
Hi Terry, glad that many Music lovers and interested people visit my channel and leave all these kind and supporting comments here, also thanks for subscription ,indeed there's lots of Material here that I've gathered over the years of musicianship,we'll be hearing from each other.greets Vic.
Thanks OldMiminha, gladly done and glad you enjoyed, welcome to my other work,greets Vic.
gees, i declare myself unable to keep up with your pace of production. i like the long nice phrases:) cheers, pat
Hi dronai, I think I do a lot intuitively,I just listen what the Tunes needs and pick a choice of technique I can use,of course I have studied those techniques, greets Vic.
YOU ARE THE BEST
Grazjano Santana Thank you sir, are you family of Carlos Santana? All the best, greetings Vic.
Thanks Mozkill, my pleasure,always welcome,Victor.
Thanks evanhue1030, nothing wrong with Hendrix/ Santana style,I like that very much too, in this style I learned harmonic and melodic refinement (with all respect to the other styles) greets Vic.
Thanks DosSantos,when I have a little time I'll check them out,Vic.
@JoseClaudioGon Thank you,I know Spanish not Portuguese but I understand your comment, thank you very much,greetings Vic.
Thanks dvdyu16, ever asked a doctor how he performs an operation? LOL,greets Vic.
Amazing, as always. What a terrific sense of timing and color you have.
Any chance you can articulate your solo ideas? Mine sound like crap, and I'm trying to learn how to solo over the changes and make it meolodic.
Many thanks for your inspiration!
@srjosedelgados Thanks,keep playing,saludos Vic.
Thank you frardy,you're always welcome,greets Victor.
Thanks for showing how its done.
+Johnny Tortuga Thanks Johnny,my pleasure man, greetings Vic.
Thanks fred, Herb Ellis was the first Jazzguitarist I heard play this tune and it was love at first hearing,Jobim is a great composer,what do you think of Stan Getz?
Gr Victor.
Love u....
Thanks tarnatalia,greetings Vic.
@3584817 Glad you run with my Music that's great,all the best,vic.
@nyc828 Thanks,it's an Ibanez Gb20 taken out of production so you'll have to look for something different, that's the way it goes.Vic.
Thanks picknpaws, well try downloading "Band in a box" (demo version) it's a very user friendly program you can generate your own accompaniment with fairly easy, greetings Vic.
@sampogi0518 thanks glad you liked it,Vic.
@gabriel19551 Thanks, I'm sorry I did this one totally by ear listening to Jobim's version, I've done many tabs on finger style tunes but I think I'm going to stop it because nobodies willing to pay a fee for all my extra work,cheers Vic.
@baixistarj1 thank you for your kindness,Vic.
Thanks dle77,it's a long of trial and error and especially persistence,in these times most guys are not willing to take that road,they want everything by pressing a knob,doesn't work with Music, grets Vic.
cool playing man, great timing, sweet jazz tone
Thanks for your mighty fine feedback,greetings Vic.
Hi Vic I'm going to ask if their any chance you could teach this song on U tube I've been trying to learn this song I know theirs a lot people teaching it but this is the best!
nice playing
Hi darylwerth, thank you, it's an Ibanez GB20(taken out production years ago) Someone who doesn't play guitar doesn't understand why I have several instruments, every guitar has a distinctive sound and I use them all on the Tube as well, a strat for instance is a totally other story then this instrument. You're welcome for the Clinic,enjoy my music,greets Victor.
Bravo Victor, one of my favorite Jobim songs. You ever play at clubs?
+Tony Durago Here in Holland it's very hard to find some gigs, I think of starting house concerts and inviting people at my house :-) greets Vic.
Great Idea Victor, last time I was in Holland was in 1982, I stayed at the Hotel California in Amsterdam. Pat Methany ever played in Holland?
Tony Durago Yes quite often, in Utrecht Vredenburg , Northsea Jazz in Rotterdam and Amsterdam as well, greetings Vic.
Wat een lekker nummer is dat toch Vic , weer geweldig gespeeld joh, maar ik heb er ook weer een nieuwe opgezet ,als je naar ( Willdvd Kees Nipius Embreceable You ) gaat dan zie je hoe ik weer een stukje Jazz in elkaar geflanst hebt ,misschien wel aardig .groetjes Kees en blijven pingelen Vic je bent de beste
Dank je Kees, ik kom zeker even kijken en commentaar geven, bedankt voor je altijd opbouwende commentaar,groetjes Vic.
@jt290476 Thank you very much, greetings Vic.
Yeah John,it is a difficult chordprogression and at certain points you really got to know what you are doing melodically, still there's a logic in this tune but this is too complex to explain in this limited answer, as with much music you have to do your meditating and thinking,this indeed one of my favourite Bossa's such a great melody and chordprogression,greets Vic.
@jt290476 thanks my friend for your heartfelt words,much obliged,Vic.
No Matter Pat,just keep your own tempo man,who's payin' you? why bother with crazy folks like me, however a little crazyness makes the world go round,thanks man,greets Vic.
Excellent! Have you seen a lead sheet anywhere on line with all the chords to this piece? I'm a guitarist but I'm taking violin lessons and also learning the flute on my own. I do a lot of recording and this would be a beautiful piece to try to put together.
Bonjour,
de la super musique, peut-ont obtenir les partitions ou tablatures de vos arrangements ?
merci
et encore congratulations for you excellent music
Michel