Everything you need to start playing Bossa Nova Rhythm Guitar!

In this workshop we will cover the following:

1.) The role and of the guitar in traditional Bossa Nova music

2.) Overview the unique fingerstyle approach present in Bossa Nova

3.) The steady two feel which your thumb creates

4.) Syncopated rhythms created by the i / m / a fingers on the upper structure of the chords

5.) Building a strong foundation through preliminary rhythm exercises

6.) Common chords and harmonic language

7.) The most common Bossa Nova Rhythms and a few variations

8.) Lastly we will apply everything to some tunes! including Bossa favorites such as Meditation, How Insensitive and Corcovado. We will also talk about applying these rhythms to other tunes.

In this workshop we will take a deep and comprehensive dive into the world of cascading harp harmonics - a la Chet Atkins and Lenny Breau.

This is a ground up workshop meaning that I will lay the foundation you need first, once this is established we will begin learning how to build lines.

I recommend that you have some experience playing fingerstyle guitar as well as a basic jazz guitar chord vocabulary.

Work through all the major and relative minor triad inversions in a slow and methodical way.