It has also become an essential part of jazz and pop repertoire in terms of must know grooves. Chords for blue bossa chords for blue bossaall chords are standard and should be part of your mental chordlibrary except maybe for the dm7b5. Bossa nova is, like rock and blues, a music that was invented on guitar. Use our list of guitar chords to learn to play guitar.
Best transcriptions sharepoint, interactive exercises to enhance musical expression, technique and creativity. It is one of the first tunes that many jazz musicians learn. Blue bossa is a popular jazz standard and a great tune to learn for beginners. Solving the mystery of the correct chords for this tune. Complete guitar chords charts elegant every single guitar chord chart vatan vtngcf. It was introduced on joe hendersons 1963 album page one. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. Blue bossa music by kenny dorham lyrics by joan cartwright. Bossa nova guitar patterns 1 blue bossa jens larsen. For this groove we are playing chords with the root in the bass and the. So you could just think, theres a ii v7 i in the key of g or whatever coming up. If you want to download a free ebook of 15 ii valt i licks then. Practice the melody and improvise over blue bossa, from the real book.
Hey guys, this is a backing track for blue bossa, sorry its a bit fast. Blue bossa chord progression kenny dorham jazz backing track play along. How to play bossa nova guitar chords, tabs and rhythm. Blue bossa real book 1 page 51 backing track bossa nova tempo 120 kenny dorham chord chart, sheet music. This important standard is 75% in the key of c minor, but modulates to a iivi in db. Remember to start real simple and learn the root notes and chord types and be real solid with them before getting into any substitutions. This page contains famous easy guitar tabs for, the house of the rising sun, amazing grace. Bobbys instructional approach offers multiple common voicings for each chord, ensuring that you wont be stranded on any part of the neck before the next chord change. This handy guide details every guitar chord you can play. I think the blues scale sound over this chord is understood as our ears have been acclimatised to it for a long time, in my opinion its more about the way the blues scale is. Blue bossa uses a 16 bar chord progression of which 75% of the chords are in the key of c minor. On these parts, you use the aeolian aka natural minor scale. The new real book, egalement en trois volumes, publie chez sher music, et est plus lisible.
Download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 bass download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 bb download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 eb download in mp3 format select your version, copy the video url below. Partition wave piano guitare piano jazz, jazz guitar, guitar chords, music sheets. If you fancy more authentic brazilian jazz, bossa nova, or otherwise, then check out blue notes excellent blue brazil series, which features brazilian musicians exclusively. Then there is the ii v7 i progression, that one comes up all the time in jazz. Mastering the blues in any key sets you up for huge success with any of the jazz standard repertoire. The chords taught in this course will get you through just about any fake book tune even the weird ones. Blue bossa from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to the real book. Included are pdf lead sheets for c, bb, and eb instruments. The real books are the bestselling jazz books of all time. It appears that you do not have a plugin to view pdfs. The real book, which we should all take with a grain of salt, shows the same chords for the head and the solosjust fm7. Remembering chords on saxophone blue bossa saxstation. In this video i show how i play blue bossa, chords and melody together, following the real book score.
The main part of the tune moves through the basic chords in the key of c. Blue bossa is a good song for beginners to practice improvisation over chord changes because its. Listen to how it creates a sense of place, of time, of aboutness. A place inside my heart is where you live memories of our start the love you give. There is then a iivi in db and finally a iivi in c minor again.
Joe henderson lima, ohio, april 24, 1937 san francisco, california, june 30, 2001 was an american jazz tenor saxophonist. There is a list of bossa nova chords but unless youre a guitarist familiar with complicated chord progressions who knows a lot about chord structure and positioning, its not a lot of use. In this lesson ill present a set of arpeggios, some exercises, target notes and strategies for making solos where you can hear the harmony in the improvisation. Bluemound rd, milwaukee, wisconsin, 532, united states, permission to. We are a guitar instruction studio in point loma, san diego. Four chord chart free jazz real book over 0 chord charts of jazz. The song blue bossa has the following chords concert pitch.
Bass keyboard drum loop microphones used rode nt1a, rode m3. Jazz standard realbook chart blue bossa jazz standard, sheet. When you first start to learn how to play jazz guitar, one of the standards that many players come across is blue bossa. Print and download blue bossa sheet music by kenny dorham arranged for piano. Learn the 5 essential left hand techniques with my free ebook. You can also use the c minor pentatonic scale or the c minor blues scale here. Blue bossa is a popular crossover track for musicians coming into jazz. Jazz standard realbook chart blue bossa sheet music in 2019. It was written by kenny dorham and performed on joe hendersons album page one, shown above in the video.
Blue bossa is a 16bar tune and is in the key of c minor. How to play blue bossa on guitar jamie holroyd guitar. If you are a jazz fan with a yen for stan getz and the whole stateside bossa nova craze of the 60s, then blue bossa is a great buy. Blue bossa is a popular standard by the great jazz trumpet player kenny dorham. Blue bossa tutorial, chords with melody, for guitar youtube. Blue bossa is a great way to start improvising following the harmony because its a well known tune that is not too difficult. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. Blue bossa is one of those tunes every jazz lover is going to play, so its good to have a few ideas and concepts under your belt to get through the tune convincingly. The chord is functioning as the dominant chord in a minor 251 ie basically it is ema7dm im with pete on this. Sadly, this book has put me off trying to learn to play bossa nova guitar as it.
Instead of playing single notes with the left hand as shown earlier, you can play full chords. In this lesson i am going to show you a one bar bossa nova pattern and some jazz chords so that. Best is to first get to used to the song, play the midi file and try to play the chords. The song blue bossa is not actually a brazilian bossa nova tune, but. Youll probably find it very helpful to check out the bossa rhythm lesson before you try this. Blue bossa has two keys making it one of the easier standards to play. The tune has since been recorded numerous times by different artists, making it a jazz standard. In addition it opens up your ears to hear this language, rather than rely on key centers to conjure up regurgitated licks.
Blue bossa by kenny dorham score and parts sheet music. Days when were alone and you are in my arms the blueness of the trueness of our love nights of moonlit skies a gentle kiss. Jazz standard realbook chart blue bossa jazz standard, sheet music. Really like this song, hadnt heard dexters version until recently. Because the comping is so sparse, its hard to hear exactly whats going on, but it may be right that at least the bass is playing some flavor of a there, instead of fm. The chords played in bossa nova are jazz chords, usually extended chords 9, 11. Its not played on a nylonstring, but on my acoustic guitar. Blue bossa is a true classic in the jazz composition repertoire. Blue bossa is an instrumental jazz composition by kenny dorham. This is a great tune for any studying jazz guitarist to spend some time getting under their fingers and into their repertoire. When i was playing clarinet more for a month during the summer, i played blue bossa. A place inside my heart is where you live memories of our start, the love you give days when were alone and you are in my heart the blueness of the trueness of our love. When youre ready to take this song to the next level, here are the chords to be played with the left hand. Heres the mp3 for the bossa nova guitar pattern were going to learn.
C m9 fm9 dm7 511 g 7 9, rootless voicings for the left hand e m9 a 7 9,d. Mustknow fake book chords and progressions soundslice. Feefifofum chord chart free jazz real book over 1,300 chord charts of jazz standards available that can be transposed to any key. In a career spanning more than forty years henderson played with many of the leading american players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including blue note.
Work on this jazz standard and get the lead sheet on our website. Blue bossa chords and melody free lead sheet and tab youtube. If you want to hear some real examples of this groove then you can check out these two songs. Blues bossa was written in 1963 by kenny dorham and first released by joe hendreson on his album page one. Here are the most popular versions guitar tabs, bass, guitar pro. Our backing tracks of blue bossa are made entirely with live musicians for that real feel. Assuming this is bar 6 in blue bossa you are talking about, in tenor sax pitch. I think it far better to think in terms of chords rather than fancy scales. Blue bossa backing tracks jazz play along jazzbacks. To prepare you for the next time this jazz standard is called at a jam session, lets explore a singlenote solo and a comping etude.
Kenny dorham blue bossa sheet music piano solo in c. Many of your real book favorites can be found here ready to be transposed into any key that you need. It is also one of the first latin tunes that many jazz musicians encounter. The tune starts with two bars of c minor, and briefly modulates up a fourth like in a blues to f7 which is then followed with a iivi in c minor. Blue bossa chord progression kenny dorham jazz backing. Knew it pretty well on saxophone and knew the changes, so. Practicing the blues in all 12 keys is important because it opens up your understanding of your instrument and navigating it. Here are the chords and the scales you can use to solo over the chord changes.