You have just found one of the best places to learn to play Bossa nova guitar.
I have been teaching Bossa Nova, Samba, Choro, and traditional Brazilian music in Brazil since 1991, and I am sure I can help you learn to play Brazilian music on the guitar in an easy and organized way.
You will learn how to play Brazilian rhythms, complete songs, solo arrangements, how to build chords on guitar, and how to sing the songs with our Portuguese audio guide. All this with Brazilian guitar tabs, chord charts, and a forum for members.
There are more than 100 lessons waiting for you. Pick up your guitar, choose a lesson, and start learning now!
How the lessons work
I record a section of a video for each part of the song where I explain and show you, measure by measure, how to play each chord, rhythm, chord progression, and each phrase of the melody in detail. Next, I show you how to play a few measures of the song at a slow tempo, then another few, until finally you have learned the entire section.
To go along with my video explanations, you also have the sheet music with standard notation, guitar tabs, and chord charts grouped according to the skill level of the lesson. Also, there are links to each composer’s biography, and links to YouTube so you can listen to the songs. Whenever possible, I put links to English translations of the lyrics in case you want to know what the original lyrics are about.
In addition to all this, you have an audio guide to help you with Portuguese pronunciation when the lesson is about how to play and sing the song, and you can easily set loop points on the video player to repeat a certain part of the video so you can play along.
Finally, you have a forum for members where you can ask question and discuss the lessons and other topics.
How the lessons are organized by level
This level deals mainly with rhythms and chord progressions. You will learn how to play and sing the songs, and you will also be taught how to play the melody of some songs. The lessons are written in standard notation and come with guitar tabs and chord diagrams when needed.
In addition to all things shown in the Beginner level, you will learn how to play small solo parts like introductions and interludes. Most of the time these small solos are real parts of the song written for solo guitar, other times I have created small introductions to fill the arrangement.
Through these lessons, you will learn how to play complete arrangements for solo guitar, written according to the most traditional Brazilian guitar style. This way of play has been responsible for making the Brazilian guitar style well known and much appreciated around the world.