Bosa Nova Guitar tablatures
Bernard Duchesne
I've been searching for a source to get some good guitar
tablatures for anything Tom Jobim wrote before 1975. I've
already looked at the OLGA web page (on line guitar tablature)
but it is rather poor in quantity and quality.
Does anyone have good guitar books or sources to recommend?
Thanks.
Calvin
Maybe I have something for you... Can you name some of those songs ?
Jason Brazile
In article <6dtgkn$g...@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com>,
Bernard Duchesne <bla...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I've been searching for a source to get some good guitar
> tablatures for anything Tom Jobim wrote before 1975.
I have some Joao Gilberto guitar transcriptions. He is the guitar player
on most of the well-known recorded versions of Jobim's works.
http://apollo.csci.unt.edu/~jason/tabs.html
This site includes guitar fingerings and translated Portuguese/English
lyrics for the following recordings:
The Legendary Joao Gilberto A Primeira Vez
Aos Pes da Cruz
Chega de Saudade
Este Seu Olhar
Morena Boca de Ouro
Presente de Natal
Getz/Gilberto Corcovado
Garota de Ipanema
Para Machucar Meu Coracao
Getz/Gilberto #2 Meditacao
Live in Montreaux A Felicidade
Canto do Paje Maria/Linda Flor
Soundtrack to "Black Orpheus" Manha de Carnaval
I have started but not finished these...
Joao Eu Sambo Mesmo
Palpite Infeliz
Rosinha
This site has been having network problems recently, but is up at the
moment.
Jason
Bernard Duchesne
Thanks Jason, you've got a fantastic web site. I've just tried
some of your transcriptions and they sound very accurate.
You must be a killer jazzman to figure out those subtle cords.
Someone else from Sweden also told me about the Brazilian Music Songbooks
edited by Almir Chediak. There are three volumes on Tom Jobim alone and 5
volumes on the main Bosa Nova songs, among others. Tom Jobim himself
reviewed some of the cords in his series.
You can find the listing of the songs in
http://www.brazilcds.com/Pages/books.html
although I'm told that BrazilCD is out of business (this also looks
like a dead web site). I'll post a question on this to see if anyone has
the address of a good US distributor for these Brazilian books.
Would you be working on the tabs for Aqua de Marco by any
chance?
Jason Brazile wrote in message <6e4abj$9i5$1...@pipe.ampersand.com>...
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"Bernard Duchesne" <bla...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Someone else from Sweden also told me about the Brazilian Music Songbooks
>edited by Almir Chediak. There are three volumes on Tom Jobim alone and 5
>volumes on the main Bosa Nova songs, among others. Tom Jobim himself
>reviewed some of the cords in his series.
>You can find the listing of the songs in
>http://www.brazilcds.com/Pages/books.html
>although I'm told that BrazilCD is out of business (this also looks
>like a dead web site). I'll post a question on this to see if anyone has
>the address of a good US distributor for these Brazilian books.
Also try Luso-Brazilian Books <http://www.lusobraz.com>. Call (800)
727-LUSO.
Jason Brazile
In article <6e5803$3...@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>,
Bernard Duchesne <bla...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jason, you've got a fantastic web site. I've just tried
> some of your transcriptions and they sound very accurate.
I tried pretty hard to get them right and I am glad that you find
that they are accurate.
> You must be a killer jazzman to figure out those subtle cords.
Thanks. Rather than "killer jazzman", I'd say "guy who really likes
Joao Gilberto's playing and has a CD player than can repeat hard to
hear guitar passages in a loop while he's trying to figure them out"
:-)
> Someone else from Sweden also told me about the Brazilian Music Songbooks
> edited by Almir Chediak. There are three volumes on Tom Jobim alone and 5
> volumes on the main Bosa Nova songs, among others. Tom Jobim himself
> reviewed some of the cords in his series.
I have seen one of these volumes and it does seem to be a very good
series. In my opinion, the main difference between these transcriptions
and mine, are that I believe these are more authentic to what the
original composers composed, while mine attempt to be more accurate
to what is played on specific recordings. In some cases, there wasn't
all that much difference. In others, there was quite a difference.
As an example of what I am talking about, I have 4 different
recordings of "Orfeu Negro" (Black Orpheus) - all performed by the
composer, Luis Bonfa. In my opinion, these are all different enough
from each other that you would really need 4 different transcriptions.
> Would you be working on the tabs for Aqua de Marco by any
> chance?
Sorry, I haven't done that one yet. I plan to in the future. If you
check DejaNews, I believe someone recently posted the chords that
appear in the Chediak books for this song.
Jason
Calvin
>
>Would you be working on the tabs for Aqua de Marco by any
>chance?
>
>
I have that transcription. I can send you the file as soon as I put it
in the computer (2 or 3 days).
From Antonio Carlos Jobim I have also :
- Samba de uma nota so
- Agua de Beber
- Corcovado
- Felicidade
- Aguas de Marco
- Desafinado
NuBossa
<<Rather than "killer jazzman", I'd say "guy who really likes
Joao Gilberto's playing and has a CD player than can repeat hard to
hear guitar passages in a loop while he's trying to figure them out"
:-)>>
Jason, what kink of CD player is this? Or is it somethiing that connects to
the CD? Sounds cool, can you slow stuff down? in pitch?
Jason Brazile
In article <19980314133...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
NuBossa <nub...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Jason Brazile wrote:
>> Rather than "killer jazzman", I'd say "guy who really likes
>> Joao Gilberto's playing and has a CD player than can repeat hard to
>> hear guitar passages in a loop while he's trying to figure them out"
>> :-)
>
> Jason, what kink of CD player is this? Or is it somethiing that connects
> to the CD?
It is a regular old consumer grade Hitachi CD player I got for
Christmas 1985 - possibly my most memorable Christmas present ever.
For me, I press the repeat button and an "A" appears and press it
again and "B" appears and it loops between A and B until I press
it again. I believe most non-portable CD players have this feature.
> Sounds cool, can you slow stuff down? in pitch?
Nope. Although this is possible if you have a relatively recent
CD-ROM drive (I don't own a CD-ROM drive), and the right software
to pull digital music data off the CD (there is free stuff available)
and then other cool software to digitially manipulate the samples
(not free that I know of, however, if you know DSP maths - I don't -
you might be able to use the free MATLAB clone, "octave", for this).
Jason
Bernard Duchesne
Calvin, I tried to write before but your return
address doesn't seem to be valid (Cal...@Hobbes.BillWatterson)
Yes, I'm interested in getting your transcriptions. Send
them anytime and thanks again.
Calvin
Sorry, but I haven't got time to do it yet... but I will...