Real Bossa Nova Basslines - Romero Lubambo | 2 Minute Jazz

Open Studio artist and Bossa Nova Master, Romero Lubambo, goes over some ways to master the Bossa Nova feel.

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Hello, Romero Lubambo here for "Two Minutes Jazz.

I'm talking about today about the bass for Bossanova, samba rhythms in the guitar. 

The bass should be simple and should be in a quarter-note type of thing like I just did. 

(Bossa Nova guitar music)

I see a lot of people trying to do more and sort of mix the Latin rhythms with the Brazilian rhythms and I will try to do it. It's hard for me even to play the way I'm not supposed to. 

(weird, quick mix of styles)

I don't know how to do it. I think it is very forced those two bass. Sometimes, of course, you can do:

But on the quarter note. Not: [sporadic eighteenth note bass samba]

I don't know how to do this but I'm trying to explain to you the simpler the better. 

Quarter notes. 

So there the bass just holds the whole thing together, as a big glue. And you can just pay your beautiful chords and rhythms with the rest of your fingers, but the bass is always there in quarter notes most of the time. And this is going to give you the swing that you want for the samba or bossa nova rhythms for the guitar. Thank you very much!

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