How to Play Bossa Nova the RIGHT way

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In this lesson, Helio Alves goes deep into brazilian bossa nova on the piano by dissecting Wave, by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

[@andrepechio]

00:05:14 ( one bar pattern ) 00:06:16 ( one bar variation ) 00:07:17 ( Corcovado snippet ) 00:09:19 ( Sixteenth note accent ) 00:12:54 ( nice pattern) 00:14:06 ( Brigas nunca mais ) 00:15:26 ( Groove on Left Hand ) 00:17:57 ( Guide tones )

[@maryannmcardle6081]

Thank you so much for sharing your invaluable knowledge of this beautiful music! You are a gift to all pianists aspiring to play bossa nova well!

[@peacegroove7854]

Beautiful and simple (but not easy to make it really groove)....great stuff! Thanks!

[@aldebaran.carrasco.martinez]

Brilliant player. Thank you for the music. Greetings from Mexico.

[@mattdudek5727]

Wow, nice! playing and lesson

[@Abmin7]

Awesome lesson keep em coming

[@reacionario2026]

Awesome lesson

[@jarbasgoulartdecastro9104]

Maravilha , Hélio!

[@hansheld467]

His time is rock solid!

[@reneandrade7637]

Hélio, the very "soul" is think on the violão (spanish guitar) and, obviously hearing João Gilberto as much as possible. Great lesson, thanks!

[@ModeDorian]

Really very good 👍🏾

[@juansecar2]

One thing that bossa has, and even when Jobim was a pianist, is that the music was meant to be played with a violao or spanish guitar. That so popular bossa comping, was meant for guitars. Then in the late 60s and 70s you have some examples of that rhythmic pattern being played by pianists or keyboardists, but, 95% of the times that was and should be done by the guitarist. And so unless you are doing it solo piano, it's much better and customary to let the guitar do it, while the piano or keyboard should stay a lot more as a harmonic matress or background, like he says, doing more legato things and giving harmonic support, with very subtle, scarce and slight rhythmic movement, but keeping that guitar comping pattern in mind at all times, however, so that these small rhythmic contributions are always inside the groove. When you hear a pianist playing that comping pattern all the time, through every song, that's when you will know that that cat still needs to study the music in depth, conceptually, study the language, and listen to the way the architects of this style used to do it. Cheers, great lesson dude.

[@demejiuk5660]

As a guitarist I understand what you meanbut Jobim himself was a pianist and performed his works on piano.

[@ronaldregen7374]

dont be so complicated. The man in the video is just off the rythm. even if he is a jazz pro

[@user-sg5jg6eh9c]

Thanks a lot

[@josean_piano]

GREAT

Falou em Brasileiros, somos os primeiros a aparecer! Viva nossa cultura! 🇧🇷😃

[@felixhoezen3935]

❤️❤️

[@welingtonmoreirapimpa]

Quero saber tocar piano assim. Quanto é o valor da aula?

[@danielvega71]

Great lesson!! Hi, I'm going to comp a guitar player/singer and I would like to learn typical, idiomatic piano voicings for bossa nova, samba, pagode, MPB... I play some tango already and found out that the chords are not very different, but my comping chords still sound... well, "tangueros". I see you tend to use more closed voicings, and sometimes my rhythm is still a bit too "marcato". In occasions it sounds great to my ears, but I'm Argentine and I'm afraid it won't exactly please a Brazilian audience... The idea is to play different kinds of Latin American music, including tangos of course, but I have to improve my Brazilian side or have to become famous to propose kind of a "bossa-tango" fusion 😂😂(just joking) Muito obrigado!!!

[@nylophone5730]

Would you play this way with a bassist, or only as a solo pianist? Anyone out here have any thoughts?

[@gitarwoman2]

Love the rhythm. What was the name of the Jobim tune mentioned around the 14:25min mark, anybody? I know Wave and Corcovado...

[@flober1970]

He talks about “Brigas Nunca Mais”

[@douglasmarques6985]

One note samba

[@jean-baptisterouche1248]

Great lesson, thanks. Excuse me but with my French accent I can't well ear whose the singer & guitar player he is speaking about at 4:00 whom Jobim's style is based on. Thanks if someone can help me.

[@MichaelRushMusic]

He's speaking about the great João Gilberto.

[@jean-baptisterouche1248]

@@MichaelRushMusic thanks!

[@chachaman4980]

Can the score to these 1 bar patterns be shared by posting them?

[@eiiiotrodger6279]

1573 is the voicing guitars have for chords, it makes sense that its copying the guitar.

[@alexandredandan]

'e muito dificil tocar assim

[@bonstherapy6119]

ins't it the Turkish Airlines thing?

[@reneandrade7637]

The last one sounds like "pagode" (brazilians know what I mean) OMG!!

[@crapadopalese]

He keeps referring to "what we saw in Samba", seems like this is 2nd part of a longer lesson. Would be nice to have a link to first part.

[@emilianodelsolar7469]

Yes! It's part of the complete course unu

[@brownriceprod]

i think this is the most bottom-heavy steinway i've ever heard. maybe mix or mics but something don't sound right to me. nothing wrong with the playing though

[@johnklover1]

Virkelig dårlig formidler

[@ilan50]

Man...that Vladimir Putin can play...

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

Not even a remote resemblance.

[@MrCaiomedeiros]

thinking of gorbatchov?