Latin & Bossa
Bossa nova, Santana-style Dorian and flamenco colours.
Bossa and Latin rhythm
- Fingerstyle bossa pattern
- Minor 7 and 9 shapes
- Clave feel
Milestone: Play a bossa nova progression fingerstyle.
Needs: Barre chords, 16th-note grooves, First fingerpicking · about 8 hours
Latin soloing
- Dorian solos with long, singing notes
- Montuno patterns
- Bossa ii–V comping
Milestone: Solo over a Latin groove.
Needs: Modal improvising, Shells, drop 2 & style grooves and Level 1 · about 12 hours
Flamenco and Latin jazz
- Phrygian dominant and the Andalusian cadence
- Rasgueado strumming
- Latin-jazz standards
Milestone: Perform a flamenco-flavoured piece.
Needs: Minor-key colours & symmetric scales, Sweeps, tapping & hybrid picking and Level 2 · about 16 hours
Hear it, try it
A typical latin & bossa phrase and a backing track to play along with. Everyone can use these, on any plan.
e|---------------------------| B|-------7--5----------------| G|-7--9--------7--4----------| D|-------------------7-------| A|---------------------------| E|---------------------------|
Harmony: m7 and 9 chords, ii–V progressions, Dorian vamps; Santana-style minor grooves.
Scales: Dorian, melodic minor, minor pentatonic.
Technique: Fingerstyle bossa rhythm (thumb bass on 1 and 3), long singing notes with sustain. Your classical technique transfers directly.
João Gilberto, Baden Powell, Carlos Santana, Paco de Lucía, Romero Lubambo.
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