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Summary: Bossa nova guitar playing tips and techniques: learn about guitar chord progressions and how to play the 11th and 12th measures of a bossa nova song in C major in this free jazz music video lesson.
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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more
RYAN LARSON: So now, we're going to go over our next two measures and we land right here on our 3 minor. Again, you want to make sure you're writing all these chords as we go through it at home. Write them down. So we have our 3 minor, E minor to our flat 3, E flat 7. So nice, easy, nice, little chromatic line and we--as we look at our fret board here, we have 1, 2, 3. So we got 3 minor and then flat 3, 7. So I don't even have to move my pointer finger, right? So nice, easy, simple. So nice, simple chords and make sure you really get those under your fingers as we keep going through and doing our--the rest of our piece. You want to make sure you have all these different voicings under your fingers so as we go through there are no surprises.