How to Analyze a Bossa Nova Song: Guitar in A Major

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So now we're going to go through and analyze our tune, so this section is going to go quick, but don't worry, we're going to go through each measure, barre, measure by measure, so we'll go through it slow. But this is just to show you how you can analyze any tune utilizing the scale. So the first thing we did is write the scale, and again we're going to have three sharps in here. That's how you know you're in A major, plus you'll probably see the first chord will be A major, but we have our scale, A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G. And we number it one through seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So now when we go through and analyze the tune we can put all these letters into numbers. So we got A major, so that's our one. B seven, that's a two, right. Be again, so that's a two, flat two right, flat two, B flat, then to A, one. Then we keep going, we got flat two again right, B flat major, so flat two, E flat, so A, B, C, D, E. That's a flat five. Then B flat, so there's a flat two again. And F seven, F sharp seven is our six right. A, B, C, D, E, F. Six, then B minor is our two. G seven - that's a flat seven. So flat seven, right. G sharp is normally right, but we have G seven. And we have C sharp, so there's our three. Six. Two. Five. So now we can go through and play all these different roots, and once we have the root in we can just plug the appropriate chords. So we'll play a seventh chord there on the fifth, and then a seventh chord on the sixth, and then a minor chord on the flat two. So we go through, if you look at the guitar. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, and we have one, one, two, two, two, flat two, one, flat two, flat two, flat five, flat five, flat two, flat two, six, six, and then we go two, two, flat seven, three, six, two, five. And then after we have that down we can go through and plug all our scales in. Three minor, six, seven, two minor five, seven. And we're going to go through and apply all these different chords, measure by measure, in just a minute.

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