'The Girl From Ipanema' Piano Tutorial - Chords, Vamp, Cover Lesson

Hello here .

And we're gonna look at the beautiful composition , which means the girl from um is a neighborhood in the south part of Rio de Janeiro .

And Robin grew up there , beautiful place .

The beach is gorgeous .

There still is to this day .

And uh the song was written in the very uh early 19 sixties and the story goes that he was sitting in a bar with uh his good friend and musical partner and they watched this girl who would walk to the beach every day and is a brilliant poet .

And he wrote this about the girl that's going to the water .

And then the lyrics in Portuguese said she's so full of grace , which is actually the same first words that you say when I say Mary so interesting .

So it just comparing the girl to a goddess or a saint .

And they saw this beautiful girl , they used to walk to the beach every day and she would not care about them .

She just pass into just staring at her and they , they , they fell in love with her .

They didn't know who she was , but they just re wrote this music , look at this girl that's going to the beach and she doesn't look at anyone and uh and I'm here alone and , you know , but I'm just looking at her and being so inspired .

So it's a song of inspiration and uh being moved by , by beauty , which is really what this is uh Grace and Beauty .

So I think the song reflects that very well .

And we start to remember the girls walking .

She's not running to the beach .

So in the way that she's walking , you just get a sense of the groove going .

It's a real song of love and wrote a simple harmony .

That's at the same time , sophisticated .

I love that .

It's uh even though it's a song that's being made popular by thousands upon thousands of recordings , you still can enjoy the beauty of it and the balance of it .

So the first thing I'm gonna do with this is actually just play the accompaniment .

So you get to hear some of the voices that I'll be using and then I would do it with a melody .

So , uh after major seventh , that's the original key of the music you can do in any key , but I'll stick to the original .

So he goes , I'll play it slowly playing my voices here .

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This was just the accompaniment .

I use some of the chromatic passing notes that we already examined in other songs .

For instance , when I play that B nine or measure 19 , I actually do a 13 like and then the same thing in D four measures after that and four measures after the .

So this is a beautiful thing that you find in a lot of music .

Uh we talked about before the chromatic passing notes and you will hear this in a lot of the original arrangements of the song that kind of line is there .

And there have been arrangements that really emphasize because that's when the melody stops on the bridge , when it goes .

So you have this open space and that open space goes .

So that's a really big thing to explore , to study .

So if you're just accompanying the song , you can read it , that can be your melody .

The inside melody will be the accompanying melody because it establishes a very interesting conversation with the main melody .

So now I'm going to start the song with a simple vamp and the simple vamp will be the same two chords that finished the song , the major seventh and the G flat with a sharp 11th as 1/9 a sharp 11 .

This is the chord sometimes you can have the 13th .

So the mold is in here .

So you can start as a groove .

It comes a melody .

If you have any questions , you can always reach back up to us .

And I hope you enjoy playing this music and uh the more you play it , the more you appreciate it .

I , I play this piece for many years and I'm always discovering new beauties inside of it .

So there's a lot for you to discover as well .

Have fun .