Samba Rhythms Taught by Rick Udler Part 2/2
I am going slower, how’s that? Other possibilities here is one that real nice. This is usual this is all stuff that you can use to a company, if you’re playing with a vocalist or if you’re playing with a horn player. You can try things like this. What I am doing here we’ve got that Gm7 chord here on the left hand I mean. We’ve got our Gm7, Am7, BbM7, Am7, D7b9 so that’s the chord progression here. And what's going on is, its get going this year is extremely important and this is anticipation 16th note anticipation. Get to, because this is the beat. So it’s like this okay if we think if it is one E and apple this is the one beat here. In both one E and a two, so you got to love this. There is your one so these little 16th note breaks and it’s all I the air. Because you will notice the beat as I mention is with a thumb and it’s the base note so a little bit of a. So that’s a little nice capping pattern. Maybe I’ll do it a little slower just to—little slower.
Another thing I’d like to mention, as long as we talking about rhythms. There’s something that lot of players do which is all slide into a chord which has a kind of exciting sound. Paulo Nogada use to do that a lot. It is kind a—which has brings a certain movement. One thing that I like to do personally is—so what I am doing there, I am sliding into that’s C 6th, 9th chord from a half step above from the B69. You will notice the base note being alternating there and sometimes I will split my fingers up. I don't always play three note blocks with my right hand okay.
So the left hand we just got this guy doing here right, we got this chord and on the right hand slowing that down tremendously would be something like this. And maybe even slower okay and once more to hear what that sound like in context. Okay, so we got all this different samba rhythms that we can use.
Sometimes in a Bossa Nova one last thing I’d like to show you. There is a nice chord progression which this one here is another one of those that is boarder line is it Bossa Nova, is it Samba. We’ve got a Bm7#9 chord, Bb7#9, AM7, C7with a 9, Bm7 with a 9, Bb7 with a 9, AM7 this time we’re going to go over here to an A7 with a sharp 5, DM7 with a 9, Dm7 with a 9. Actually we got a 6 or 2, six 9, Cm7, C7 with a 9, Bm7 with a 9, Bb7 with a 9, AM7.
Now why I’m showing you that chord progression, because we’re going to see with the right hand does with that. One could do a Bossa Nova one could also do since these chords are all in the middle group of strings here. You can do the base alternation so that you could do something like this. And what I am going to do actually I am going to keep it all in the middle strings to really bring out the inner voices. Rather that do that which is an interesting technique but I am going to do this.
So, a little slower, now running through that progression, it would sound like this. So try those out. Those should help enhance your Samba and Bossa Nova playing.
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