Choro Pro Zé (Choro for Zé) is a composition by Guinga, one of the greatest living composers of the Brazilian guitar. It explores the tonality of D minor, starting with a scale of whole tones. The piece is harmonically very rich, making use of modal borrowings and chromatic passages, and calls for a softer, velvety […]
Category Archives: Choro
09
Feb
Feb
This is my arrangement of the choro waltz “Santa Morena”, a spanish influenced piecee by Brazilian composer Jacob do Bandolim, to which I attempted to bring a flamenco flavor using somee techniques and concepts of the flamenco “bulerías” style.
07
May
May
This performance is an interpretation of the famous choro Tico Tico, mixing the Brazilian guitar style with the Gypsy Jazz guitar approach!
31
Jul
Jul
Felipe Coelho performs his own arrangement of Severino Araújo’s “Espinha de Bacalhau”, a choro know for it’s difficulty specially on the B and C sections where the melody doubles the subdivision. The arrangement is done so that the three different times the A section appears, it is played differently. Firstly rubatto on the low register, […]
31
Jul
Jul
On this video I’m playing arrangement to 7 strings guitar of Noites Cariocas by Jacob do Bandolim
30
Jul
Jul
Desvairada is a choro waltz by Garoto, one of the greatest guitar composers in the history of Brazilian music. The piece has three different sections, the first in Dm, the second in F major e the third in D major. For this take I decided to bring some aspects of my own style, firstly by […]