The Real Way to Play Bossa Nova - Peter Martin | 2 Minute Jazz

[@tomal7077]

I'm brazilian musician, that's it! Relax, just think the papa... Papapa..papa.papa...papapa

[@thigadao5086]

Hey, I’m a brazilian musician, firstly, awesome video! If u allow me to add just some piece of information, in practice, that’s not played quite like that. Rhythmically, we usually add a lot of ghost notes between the second an first hands, and the bass is a very common misconception that is broadly spread and is actually really far from true (nobody at all plays the bass like that). The bass is actually pretty melodical, establishing a lota counterpoints with the melody or simply singing for itself very often, and most of the times moving through half or hole steps to the next chords, that 1-5 bass is just a pattern that is SOMETIMES used, repeating it like that makes thins very repetitive and monotonous. When playing that, try always to add a lot of rhythmical variation and a very active bass (well accompanied by hundreds of seventh’s and some minor sixth’s chords)! For further study I highly recommend the 2 minutes video: “o verdadeiro baixo da bossa nova” - Nelson Faria. I guess it is not subtitled, u can get the musical meaning from there though (firstly the pianist plays the wrong bass, and then an example of a good one). Thanks for ur attention! =)

[@wanernogueira9924]

True! I m Brazilian too and totally agree with you.I understood Peter’s point but you are right. João Camargo Mariano is a great reference too.

[@wanernogueira9924]

Cesar Camargo Mariano I mean

[@hugorodriguez457]

UFF,

[@Kingstonlomusic]

May I ask can the Bossa Nova groove be understand as playing 8th notes, but balancing between down beats and up beats? Sometimes I even use paradiddle from drumming as tool to teach that.

[@voidzennullspace]

Thanks for this info!

[@detectordegados5292]

Finally a gringo on KZbin who can play bossa properly. All the other music youtubers seem to just follow the Real Book and not listen to the Brazilian albums at all (nothing past Getz-Gilberto). Congratulations and thanks for this video!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@cariboux2]

This is actually the first Bossa Nova piano tutorial that didn't make me shake my head, cry and say "I'm never gonna get this." Thank you!

[@philipford6183]

Mindblowing. I learned more in this 2 minute video than I have watching hours of other YT videos. Also, I adore Boss Nova.

[@ocellomendonca]

Parabéns from Brasil! 🇧🇷👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@hamiltonhayes8341]

This was 2:18 of my life WELL SPENT!! THANK YOU!!

[@justinmartin6796]

Maybe even whole notes.. just relax! Thank you for that advice.. I like to bounce around! Gotta turn my left hand dowwwnnnn

[@NissanN12Dude]

0:36 on a side note, that particular bass line is being used in "Song for my father" by Horace Silver. Happens to be in the exact same key as well! Thank you for a very good video tutorial!

[@marya4798]

I thought I recognised it!

[@kenkinnally6144]

And then Rikki Don't Lose That Number by Steely Dan after that as well.

[@DanielaSpadini]

Very nice video... interesting for me thanks

[@alexmarqs]

I am from Brazil, and I play the piano. It is a very good video! Well done! 🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ellontheluse]

Please do more videos on Bossa Nova, this was so helpful!

[@evelinebarki8929]

An american who plays like a brazilian finnaly !!

[@brians8534]

Great - would love to hear you play the tune through (Ipanema or Wave) so we can really see it all in action. Thanks for all your videos Peter!

[@rebanelson607]

Just what I needed!

[@paolomaggi8188]

An American who plays better than most of Brazilians and thaught me (an Italian) the real way to play bossa.....After 5 years of various lesson on you tube, this guy opened my mind only telling to play with the right hand the syncophated notes.....In fact, if i play with the bass the syncophated notes, i can' t bear that "jumping" rhytm...On the contrary, the music seems more "fluid"..Thank you very much!!! Would you mind recording the whole song in a midi file so that I can slow it down and learn it easier?.....I'll buy it immediatly !!

[@kcollins3451]

Hi Peter. That 2:18 video was very helpful to me beginning jazz piano. The simple bass that you demonstrate results in that lovely understated bossa nova style. Thanks and regards. Kevin Collins, Sligo, Ireland

[@davisworth5114]

Hi Kevin from Port Orchard Washington, I believe that if you were playing in an ensemble, you would go for the simple to stay out of the bass player's way, keep on playing and growing, music is like religion, an anchor in life.

[@pc9467]

You taught me something good in 2 minutes. Practical and clearly presentedm thanks!

[@budgetpack]

Thank you Peter, I find you lessons an inspiration.

[@TonyWinston]

Good info - I didn't know that about bossa. The bass players i work with do it right so i guess the rhythm is more on me - thanks.

[@LennyPrice]

Excellent lesson, Peter! Would love to see your take on the Samba. 🎹🇧🇷

[@emmetthouse5600]

Thx you enjoy as always Peter

[@alwayzblues]

Great teaching!

[@louialigon6747]

Thank you so much ! Very good tip !!!

[@davidsummerville351]

A very good 2 minutes. Tha nx

[@William_sJazzLoft]

As always predictably the culprit is the LH and what it's doing. Thank you for straightening that out. Excellent tutorial Thanks - Will

[@jakjan1]

that was great thankyou

[@lesharris9560]

At last! Thanks.

[@007aureltaz]

Thank you so much. It's so generous to share all those very usefull knowledge. Very clear teaching!

[@annailyin431]

Thank you so much for your videos! Could you also show how play samba and salsa? Thank you!

[@marcofarina9299]

Video utilissimo in solo 2 minuti

[@kensukei.4984]

on point!

[@elBiter]

After struggling for weeks with my left hand, finally found your technique makes it sound more like the real thing. Really valuable advice. Thank you so much.

[@tatianaovcharova9388]

Thank you, your video is confirmation of that what I’ve learnt from Diana Krall’s recordings)

[@SIRUS80]

AMEN to this!!

[@AndreaOcello]

Nice, it really helped me thinking this style in a more relaxed way, as it should be. Thanks for this!

[@a__-yg7vz]

as a curiosity only, but traditionally you wouldn't have whole notes in brazilian rythms, since samba, choro, bossa nova, it was all written in 2/4, so those bass notes would be quarter notes. it was after the bossa nova became a global thing that american songbooks started writing it in 4/4 (now even brazilian modern songbooks have the whole notes, but always in 2/2, to remain binary).

[@esiegel2]

that is true in my experience too

[@lofirhyme6324]

Can someone please tell me the chords he's playing! Thank you In advance

[@TheRedstonedeluxe]

He plays F^7 and Bb^7 (with diatonic extensions). Then he plays the changes to Girl from Ipanema

[@heidigurtler5000]

Thank you so much for telling me one more time that less is more :-)

[@pavlobutorin]

Wonderful. Thanks, Mr. Martin!

[@maracuja55]

Excellent !!

[@emmanuelflores4013]

Great video, I from México and I liked you videos

[@edbergquist4745]

thank you

[@spaziojobim]

I only would like to say to the students and people watching this video that ORIGINAL Brazilian Bossa Nova is not 4/4 but 2/4. So the main pattern is what you hear in the very beginning of João Gilberto "Garota de Ipanema"' (guitar batida). kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGm5gaCqrrGkibs Every variation that Giberto does is, indeed, a variation of the main batida (rythm pattern).

[@edbergquist4745]

Thank you...

[@BMarPiano]

Really consise, helpful explanation. Thanks!

[@hongkongtennis]

I was blind but now I see!

[@JulianFernandez]

Spot on

[@jacquesvandermeer6668]

Cool.

[@jackwilloughby239]

Another great video to check out is Emily Remler advanced jazz and Latin improvisation. It's for guitar but all the things she talks about are just as legit for piano.

[@demejiuk5660]

Riiiight! She was the one that put me on to the real way the "half notes" bass. I love that tape. "I may look like a small Jewish woman..."

[@pedronetto_oficial]

Muito bom..👏👏

[@pianorikardhallberg9162]

What microphone do you use for this video?

[@kristerman]

Ok, but what about when when you are trying to play fast Samba? I think it sounds much better to add the double bass hits there, at least from time to time

[@travisdt]

can anyone break it down the right hand please?

[@jorge-keys]

Missed the Gb7 though ;)

[@vernonmire9969]

I love how you said, "Relax", very funny!!! I use to say the same thing to uneducated garage solo maniacs who ruin songs with wanting to show off all the time. I would say "calm down", I was just the sound mixer, but my ears did not lie.

[@esiegel2]

Peter, I love your videos, and subscribe to Open Studio and You'll Hear It but may I courteously say that you have this wrong. The left hand is backwards, if you listen to the "surdo" the low drum that the left hand imitates from samba into bossa nova, the higher note usually played as the fifth, is the first note, and the lower note is the second. In 4/4 that would be a slow 1 (root) 3 (fifth below it), check with romero's videos on Open Studio, his basic brazilian guitar, the first class he shows this. It is really fundamental (so to speak.) . Again, with the greatest respect and enjoyment of your teaching and playing.

[@andrewsmith4356]

So in the key of F, how exactly would the LH play on the tonic F chord? There's some confusion in your use of the terms root and fifth in the way you have two sentences seeming to contradict each other: "the higher note usually played as the fifth, is the first note, and the lower note is the second. In 4/4 that would be a slow 1 (root) 3 (fifth below it)". I suppose you mean in the key of F, for the F chord the LH simply plays C then F. Your second sentence implies playing F then B-flat (root + 5th below it) but I think you mean "the 5th of the chord", i.e., C. Thanks for clarifying.

[@davisworth5114]

So nice to see piano pickers disagree, what Peter is doing sounds great, but perhaps the discriminating Brazilian musician would honestly say it's not at all authentic, just like those of us who first learned country blues on acoustic guitar will feel superior to those who don't know the authentic licks. The proof of the pudding is in the contrasting jauntiness and sensitivity of the performance. The doubled one-five that Peter first played is of course the bass line for Horace Silver's "Song for My Father", the first four songs of that album have the same one-five bass pattern, Horace states in the liner notes that Song for My Father was inspired by his trip to Brazil, so whether or not Silver's playing was "authentic", it sounds great and is one of my favourite albums.

[@esiegel2]

by which of course I mean the five, which is a fourth below, thanks Andrew below,

[@orlandovaldiviabravo5816]

En español por favor

[@BrettPrice1983]

Thanks Alot! I love when you said "nah, we don't need all that".😀

[@omomo20]

unauthentic is a heavy word coming from a north american guy dictating a rule on brazilian music isn't it? You can hear the unauthentic bassline in a lot of jobim's solo performances on piano, such as in his posthumous live recording/album in minas gerais. The fact is they didn't use a single unique rhythm, and you can see that change from song to song. It'd also be helpful to explain the origins of the rhythm, which is the surdo and tamborim interaction from samba.

[@magicalmew5209]

i'd think you'd like adam neely's video on this

[@TheDrunkMunk]

Absolutely agreed

[@omomo20]

@@magicalmew5209 I like his videos, interesting that he also wants to dictate some strange laws on it, like when he says brazilians play it in D flat. Tom Jobim played it in F... but its an awesome video nevertheless

[@stephenpale]

good for bass players to know, too

[@eiseyboy]

Yes, please listen to this advice, bass players who aspire to play Brazilian music!

[@theyhaventfedmesince]

My whole life was a lie

[@freddy7700]

👍 👍 👍

[@musickitchenwleyla9352]

💋💋

[@stevenhupkens8942]

Nice informative lesson. There are Some piano players that play a syncopated bass line, even double the bass players line. Check song For my father By horace silver

[@flooey580]

Song For My Father is not a bossa

[@davisworth5114]

@@flooey580 You could argue with Horace Silver about that, is Walter Wanderly bossa?

[@flooey580]

@@davisworth5114 I think I should elaborate on my comment, which in hindsight sounds a little pat and dismissive. That was wrong of me and I should know better. SFMF is of course one of the classic jazz songs and rightly so. I don't like putting musical styles into boxes and I'm also not a fan of musical xenophobia. I guess what I meant to say is that for that particular song, *in my opinion* the ostinato bass line and Horace's comping are stylistically far away from the classic bossa rhythms and comping styles the originators of BN played. Also, Horace's solo is primarily blues-based in its note choices and style - something you generally don't hear in BN. It sounds to me like jazz guys doing their interpretation of a bossa - which I have no problem with. And if Horace called it a bossa, hell no I won't argue with him!

[@maru5259]

My man looks like Ian from Alvin and the Chipmunks

[@xs10tl1]

I blame Steely Dan for this.

[@flooey580]

I think you mean Horace Silver! :-)

[@L1102]

@@flooey580 rikki dont lose that number by steely dan too

[@renatocatharino3940]

Cool, but the real way starts out being 2/4 and not 4/4. The bass line simulates a deaf samba school, being more staccato in the first half and accentuated in the second and alternating between the tonic and the fourth descendant. I hope I collaborated

[@livingpiano]

I don't agree with the bass part you said

[@messiklauf928]

that does not sound authentic tho

[@paulrodger8692]

Less is more....

[@Ulexcool]

This is not it bro. This sounds 1000% American.