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

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Part of the video series: Bossa Nova Guitar in F Major

Summary: Learn how to analyze a bossa nova song, including guitar chords and scales in this free video jazz music lesson.

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By Ryan Larson
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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

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on 8/31/2009 So I'm kinda caught up on why the D7 looks as though we've analyzed it to a minor(small roman) six seventh. The D doesn't have your little _ showing it's a minor. I was thinking you would just write VI. But instead it looks as though you wrote and said vi7th. None of the other seventh chords up to this point have been labeled sevenths; why the D7?
This kinda looses me.

Video Transcript

"So now we are going to go through and actually analyze our tune. I'm going to write the scale up here again so you can reference to it. F, G, A, D flat, C, D, and E. Again, you want to write one through seven. Five, Six, Seven. Right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And now we are going to go through and analyze this whole tune. Now, we are going to analyze it really quick, so don't worry about getting it all down right now. You want to write down the whole tune at home, but we are going to go bar by bar. So you can write it down nice and slow. I'm just going to show you how to analyze this. So we have F major. So that?s our one major, right? F. That?s a one. G. F, G. There?s our two. Two cord. G minor. So we have a two minor cord. Then flat two, right? G flat. Then we are back at F major. So, our one cord again. So, A section's very easy. One to two. Flat two to one. Then we have a repeat sign but we are not going to worry about that right now. Then we have G flat major. So, that?s our flat two again, right? Flat two major. Then B seven. F, G, A, B. So that our four. But, it's not a B flat so we have a sharp four. Then we have F sharp. So that?s a sharp one, right? Sharp one minor. Then D seven. D is our six, right? So, six, seven. Then G minor, our two minor. E flat seven. So, that?s our flat seven. Then we have A minor, which is our three minor. D seven. Which is our six. G is a two. C is a five. So, by going through and utilizing that seven note scale, I can go through and find all the roots for all these cords and once I have those roots down I just have to apply the appropriate cord for the appropriate voicing, or the appropriate voicing for each appropriate cord and it will all come together. And we are going to go through that right now."