Samba and Bossa Nova on Bass

The course is divided in Four Modules:

Module 01: Immersion

This module is meant to help the student on the saga through samba. It is very common, when you study jazz for example, to seek its story and development to understand what the musicians are playing. So, we will do the same with samba. I know it’s difficult when a style has such a small number of recordings (and most of them have bad sound quality), so this first step is like a guideline to history and samba bass players.

Classes:

01 – Repertoire Guide

02 – History of Samba

03 – Essential Samba Bass Players

Module 02: Musical Analysis

In this module, we will understand the rhythm structures of the main instruments used in samba and how the bass can interact with them, as well as instrumentations and how each instrument looks and sounds. Several ideas of what the bass can play in each situation will be addressed too.

Classes:

01 – Instrumentation

02 – Rhythm Structure

03 – Percussion on Bass

Module 03: Exercises

There will be five exclusive backing tracks of several genres, based in highly recurrent harmonies. For each track, you will find a version with a bass part recorded by Renato for reference

Exclusive backtracks:

1. Slow Bossa (50bpm)

2. Medium Bossa (70bpm)

3. Medium Samba (80bpm)

4. Fast Samba (100bpm)

5. Fast Partido Alto (115bpm)

Module 04: Real Life

Two songs by Kike Toledo, played by three different bass players. These songs were chosen due to their harmonies, melodies and instrumentations; all very typical of samba.

The bass players will be:

Zéli Silva: Bass professor at the Santa Marcelina College of Music (São Paulo, Brazil), academic researcher and author of “Transcrições Vol. 1” (Transcriptions Vol. 1), which will be considered as a next step for those who want to go deeper on the bass parts created by the masters that will be addressed during the course.

Carlinhos Noronha: Bass player with a vast experience in samba, Noronha has been acting as a sideman for several years, as well as on studio, with a great number of artists.

Renato Leite: The author of “Samba and Bossa Nova on Bass”.

Content reviewed and translated by Dilson Siud

Voiceovers by Dilson Siud and Clara Camargo

Five exclusive playbacks created from real harmonic situations

Drums: Fernando Lima

Violão and Cavaco: Eduardo Camargo

Exclusive Playlists:

Historical

1. Samba Essentials

2. Samba Mid

3. Samba Pro

Bass Players

1. Luizão Maia

2. Sizão Machado

3. Tião Neto

4. Nico Assumpção

5. Jorge Helder

6. Prateado

Who this course is for:

• Intermediate bass players who want to improve their samba and bossa nova grooves
• Jazz players who want to play Brazilian rhythms
• Electric Bass Players
• Double Bass Players
• Rig Bass Players