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Summary: Part 1 - Learn how to play bossa nova bass lines on jazz guitar in this solo guitar lesson on video, with jazz music tips & techniques.

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Casey Cormier Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for ten years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York Cit... read more

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Bossa Nova With Bass: Jazz Guitar

CASEY CORMIER: A third method of comping over Latin rhythms without, like, we just discussed Samba and Bossa, a third way is by using our bass, our thumb on our right hand as a bass. Basically, this is a good exercise to do if we're playing a duo type of setting, or we're playing with one other person who wasn't a bassist, or if we were just--if we just want to to mimic the bass, maybe while the bassist was just taking a solo. So, let's start with the C major 7 as an example. We can pluck our thumb over here on the A string, and we have our other fingers hooked under the D, G, and B. They're going to be strumming or picking up [PLAYS BOSSA RHYTHM]. Now, our bass still here, remember how with the Bossa we had. Our thumb's replacing the one and the three rhythms, boom, pom, pom, pum. These are going [PLAYS CHORD] and playing one with the first finger here is replacing this regular strum from the Bossa. So, this is really the Bossa pattern [PLAYS CADENCE IN BOSSA RHYTHM].

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