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submitted 2 weeks ago by Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Brazilian music is famous worldwide โ€” from bossa nova, to choro, to samba.

Bossa is cool, choro is amazing, but my favorite things about samba is that despite being "pop music" it still has complex rhythms and harmonies.

My top favorite thing is the prevalence of the 7 stringed guitar and their use of counterpoints (i.e., parallel melodies).

I love how what (I think) started as guitarists just playing harmonies, turned into them improvising bass lines and counterpoints every once in a while, which eventually became them doing MOSTLY counterpoints and bass lines and barely playing the harmony lmao.

These bass lines and counterpoints, from what I understand, are often times arpeggiations of the chords and so forth, but they add such an amazing effect to the music.

Examples:

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[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hard to pick just one track for sure but I'll choose this one today :)

โˆ† - III

[-] AdNecrias@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty cool. Wasn't what I expected. Flows nice

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was hard to choose but I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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