Bossa Nova With Bass: Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

"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]."