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I’ve been a huge fan of Bossa Nova and Brazilian music for almost 8 years now. I think the best place to start learning any form of Brazilian music is the Bossa Nova. It’s slow tempo and less syncopated rhythms than some other forms of Brazilian music such as “Samba” for example gives you time to get a good feel for the swing of the music. The most important part in my opinion is the right hand. In this lesson, I isolate just the right hand using only open strings. By staying only on the A, D, G and B strings you can really focus on just the right-hand rhythm.  After mastering these rhythms you can move onto adding chords. Please take a look at Lesson 22: How Insensitive Chord Changes. In lesson 22 I teach you all the chords you will need to play the classic Antonio Carlos Jobim tune How Insensitive. After mastering the right-hand rhythms and the chord changes in lesson 22 you can move onto Lesson 23: How Insensitive Part II. In this lesson, I have created a play-along video so you can practice combing the right-hand rhythms as well as the chord changes at the same time.

Below is the YouTube video of the lesson: