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Summary: Tips on playing bossa nova music on guitar: learn how to play the 7th and 8th measures of a bossa nova song in E major in this free jazz music video 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
"RYAN LARSON: So now we're going over our next two measures. Again, make sure you're writing all these measures down at home so you can reference back to them and play through the tune. But, again, this is just a basic run through so you can do this through any tune, but we have our ii minor and then we have our vi minor to our 3-7. So we're going to go find that on the fret board. So here's our 1, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, so we got 1, 2, so there's our ii minor, right? And we apply our minor chord voice in there on the second string. Then we have to go know in the 7, so 1, 7. This is 7 right here. So we got vii minor to our 3 which is right here, right? 7, 3. One, 2, 3 and 1, 7, 6, 5. So we got 7 to 3. vii minor to 3-7. So again, we have our---this nice, simple ii minor, 6, or 7 to 3 and that leads into 6. So those are our next two bars out of our tune and we went to our ii minor to our vi minor to our 3-7."