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Summary: Learn how to play a bossa nova song, including guitar chords and scales in this free video jazz music lesson.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"So our next two chords are our three chord to our six chord, right, B flat to E flat, and then our two to our five, A flat to D flat. And this is a standard jazz turnaround, even though we're playing a bossa tune. Bossa nova and jazz are linked, brothers. So we have three to six, two to five, so if we look at our fretboard we have one, two, three, four, five, six, so three, six, two, five. Nice, easy, so, three minor, six, seven, two minor, five seven. Great thing to get under your fingers. You can hear why it's a standard progression, probably heard this before. So those are your next two measures, and you want to make sure you get all that under your fingers."