The course is divided in Four Modules:
Module 01: Immersion
This module is meant to help the student on the saga through samba. It is very common, when you study jazz for example, to seek its story and development to understand what the musicians are playing. So, we will do the same with samba. I know it’s difficult when a style has such a small number of recordings (and most of them have bad sound quality), so this first step is like a guideline to history and samba bass players.
Classes:
01 - Repertoire Guide
02 – History of Samba
03 – Essential Samba Bass Players
Module 02: Musical Analysis
In this module, we will understand the rhythm structures of the main instruments used in samba and how the bass can interact with them, as well as instrumentations and how each instrument looks and sounds. Several ideas of what the bass can play in each situation will be addressed too.
Classes:
01 - Instrumentation
02 – Rhythm Structure
03 – Percussion on Bass
Module 03: Exercises
There will be five exclusive backing tracks of several genres, based in highly recurrent harmonies. For each track, you will find a version with a bass part recorded by Renato for reference
Exclusive backtracks:
Slow Bossa (50bpm)
Medium Bossa (70bpm)
Medium Samba (80bpm)
Fast Samba (100bpm)
Fast Partido Alto (115bpm)
Module 04: Real Life
Two songs by Kike Toledo, played by three different bass players. These songs were chosen due to their harmonies, melodies and instrumentations; all very typical of samba.
The bass players will be:
Zéli Silva: Bass professor at the Santa Marcelina College of Music (São Paulo, Brazil), academic researcher and author of “Transcrições Vol. 1” (Transcriptions Vol. 1), which will be considered as a next step for those who want to go deeper on the bass parts created by the masters that will be addressed during the course.
Carlinhos Noronha: Bass player with a vast experience in samba, Noronha has been acting as a sideman for several years, as well as on studio, with a great number of artists.
Renato Leite: The author of “Samba and Bossa Nova on Bass”.
Content reviewed and translated by Dilson Siud
Voiceovers by Dilson Siud and Clara Camargo
Five exclusive playbacks created from real harmonic situations
Drums: Fernando Lima
Violão and Cavaco: Eduardo Camargo
Exclusive Playlists:
Historical
Samba Essentials
Samba Mid
Samba Pro
Bass Players
Luizão Maia
Sizão Machado
Tião Neto
Nico Assumpção
Jorge Helder
Prateado
