Once you feel comfortable with this rhythm the next step is to add some chords. Usually the second bar is a trickier because it starts on the off beat so isolate it and keeping looping it and when you feel comfortable play both bars together. This rhythm should be memorized so it’s integrated within you playing so you know what you’re playing. When I have taught this rhythm to my student’s they sometimes find it hard to play on guitar straight away so I recommend putting the guitar down first, and either tapping your foot on four or putting a metronome on all 4 beats, then clapping the rhythm until it feels comfortable. The first step is playing bossa nova guitar is learning a common bossa nova rhythm that the chords to a tune can be applied to. Even though there’s a lot of repetition, some funk tunes only consistent of one or two chords and no one ever gets bored of it because the music has a strong and catchy groove. Think of it like playing a funk tune where you keep playing the same 16th note type rhythms throughout the song over and over again. Some common bossa tunes you can apply the techniques from this lesson to are ‘Blue Bossa’, ‘How Insensitive’, ‘Black Orpheus’, ‘Girl From Ipanema’ and ‘ Wave’.īossa Nova guitar, like other jazz styles is about keeping a groove the audience can tap their foot to which means that we need to keep a solid rhythm throughout the piece. Bossa tunes are great fun to play on guitar as the comping techniques fit nicely on the instrument and are fairly easy to play.īossa tunes are great fun to play on guitar as the comping techniques fit nicely on the instrument and are fairly easy to play.

In today’s instalment of 30 days to Better Jazz Guitar Comping I am going to be showing you how to play bossa nova guitar.

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