Bossa Nova Piano Lesson

This is Jono Santos NATO for piano groove .

And I'm on this lesson , we're gonna show how to create a very simple Bosa Nova samba groove talking about 25 ones .

So I'm gonna use very simple chords to let you understand how that feels .

So , for instance , let's uh pick a key of uh G major .

OK ?

And I'm gonna do uh 251 will be a , a minor and then ad seven and then the major .

So I'm just doing 3rd and 7th .

OK ?

And with these three notes , I can set up a groove , aim add in the fifth .

That's a simple pattern .

You see how I'm accenting my left hand slightly every second beat as in here , here , back to the groove .

Sometimes it can be a flip .

Now , if I'm gonna add some more notes to those squirts , I'm gonna play a little bit to the five court I met in a flat night .

So instead of playing , they scored them playing another thing I could do with the five is to , to flatten the six .

So they have .

So now I'm playing the one chord as what we know is a , as a 69 chord , it doesn't have a third , it doesn't have 1/7 .

But this is a chord that you find in a lot of guitar accompaniments we have this , that adds a lot of what's known as a Brazilian sound to that .

The 6/9 chord can also be inverted .

So , but this representation of it , in any case , it sounds really good .

So it can't go over .

It's a very good chord to have because it's one of the chords that's used a lot of popular music .

It does not commit to a third to 1/7 but it does indicate a major chord .

It's uh it's actually not correctly called 69 because to have a nine , you would have to have 1/7 .

But in this case , it could be actually more a 26 chord .

And uh now if we had a , a six chord to create that uh 2516 progression , there would be like 27th .

This case name is a flat nine , but you could also use a 13 or , or , or , or even so how many variations of that uh that seven dominant 76 court we could have in the FG major .

I'll play this again for you .

Changing the inversion .

So you can see how that sounds different in different regions of the instrument .