Taught by renowned guitarist
Douglas Lora
Award-winning guitarist and composer Douglas Lora teaches Brazilian rhythms and forms on the guitar. This course introduces four quintessential genres of Brazilian music, the Samba, Maxixe, Choro, and Baião. Douglas includes rhythmic patterns for the right hand and chord sequences to apply for each genre.
Intro to Brazilian Rhythms
Award-winning guitarist and composer Douglas Lora introduces his connection and admiration for Brazilian rhythms and forms.
Samba
The Samba is one of the best gateways into Brazilian rhythms. The independence between bass and accompaniment figures in Samba is present in most other styles of Brazilian music. Douglas Lora discusses the foundation of Samba's rhythmic patterns and demonstrates how to apply them on the guitar.
Maxixe
The Maxixe is considered by many as the first authentically Brazilian genre. Douglas Lora demonstrates how combining independent rhythmic cells in the bass and accompaniment can result in a variety of distinctive Maxixe rhythms.
Choro
The term Choro, initially referred to an interpretative character, bursting with lyricism, creativity, and virtuosity. The genre incorporates melodies and counter melodies in a bed of rhythmic complexity. Join Douglas Lora on another excellent lesson on one of the most characteristically Brazilian styles of music.
Baião
While other genres of Brazilian music, such as the Choro and Samba, were heavily developed in urban settings, the Baião was very much a genre rooted in rural regions of North-eastern Brazil. The Baião rhythms are a sort of amalgamation between African and indigenous rhythms giving its characteristic groove. Douglas Lora demonstrates the application of these rhythms to the guitar in his final lesson on Brazilian rhythms.
Conclusion
Douglas Lora closes out his lessons on Brasilian rhythms and makes some final suggestions for guitarists interested in further learning.
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