Choro Archives - Felipe Coelho Guitar

“Choro Pro Zé” – Amazingly Beautiful Brazilian Guitar Composition

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 04:17:11 +0000

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 touch, bringing a melancholic tone. It is one of the most beautiful choros for guitar in Brazilian music.

Choro Pro Zé é uma composição de Guinga, um dos maiores compositores vivos do violão brasileiro. Ela explora a tonalidade de dó menor, iniciando com uma escala de tons inteiros. A peça é harmonicamente muito rica, fazendo uso de empréstimos modais e passagens cromáticas, e pede por um toque mais macio e aveludado, trazendo um tom melancólico. É um dos mais belos choros para violão na música brasileira

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BRAZILIAN FLAMENCO! – “Santa Morena” (Jacob do Bandolim)

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:54:18 +0000

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.

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TICO TICO NO FUBÁ – What Happens When Brazilian Meets Gypsy Guitar

admin — Fri, 07 May 2021 22:34:36 +0000

This performance is an interpretation of the famous choro Tico Tico, mixing the Brazilian guitar style with the Gypsy Jazz guitar approach!

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Brazilian Choro – Espinha de Bacalhau

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 02:15:25 +0000

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, then secondly as it is traditionally played, and the third time, the melody is rearranged so as to adopt the same sixteenth note subdivisions as in sections B and C.
The traditional Choros are normally played may two or more instruments, where one plays harmony and bass and the other the melody. This is where this project brings something new, enabling these intricate pieces to be played on the guitar alone.

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Choro Noites Cariocas – Jacob do Bandolim

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 02:12:59 +0000

On this video I’m playing arrangement to 7 strings guitar of Noites Cariocas by Jacob do Bandolim

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Desvairada (Garoto) by Felipe Coelho

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:52:10 +0000

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 applying the hybrid technique in some of the arpeggios from the melody, and by mixing the Brazilian composition with bits and pieces of flamenco and gypsy jazz. On the third part I decided to go for a solo using arpeggios, gypsy jazz phrases and even a blues phrase over the II – V – I progression. And at the end of the third part, I buil a strong cadence to go back to the top, by using flamenco influenced tools such as the harmony in phrygian dominant mode and the technique of alzapua.
To end the piece with style I took the pulse up a few notches build some intensity.

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