Styles 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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Cartagena – Felipe Coelho Composition with Orquestra Filarmonica SC

admin — Wed, 12 May 2021 14:44:43 +0000

This composition fuses the flamenco style with the latin rhythm of “chacarera”. The guitar makes use of the flamenco techniques and sonority but to embrace an universal language alongside the orchestra. The composition builds the theme up to a peak of fast picados in dramatic moment with the use of the whole tone scale.

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Tango Adiós Nonino – Astor Piazzolla

admin — Wed, 12 May 2021 14:28:45 +0000

Felipe Coelho performs “Adiós Nonino” by Piazzolla in his house.

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MERCEDITAS – Chamamé + Flamenco! World Guitar Style

admin — Fri, 07 May 2021 22:51:44 +0000

I’ve decided to record the Latin American standard “Merceditas” to feature a guitar approach that I think of as “World Guitar”. A combination of Brazilian, Jazz, Flamenco, Latin, and Gypsy styles!

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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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Soling over the hardest tune I know – Moments Notice (John Coltrane)

admin — Fri, 07 May 2021 22:22:47 +0000

Soling over the hardest tune I know – Moments Notice (John Coltrane)

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7 String Brazilian Guitar – Baião – FEIRA DE MANGAIO – Sivuca

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 01:59:01 +0000

I’ve been wanting to record this tune for a few weeks and finally had the time. “Feira de Mangaio” is a baião by Sivuca, that when I play, reminds of going out to Brazil’s forró, to dance for hours. The swing is the most important part in order to bring the spirit of the music out.

This arrangement was done mostly using two note harmony, either playing the interval of a third or a sixth. The groove is that of baião, which mean it’s a 2/4 cycle where the bass plays on the first and fourth sixteenth note of beat 1, while the high part basically accents in staccato, all sixteenth notes.
The tune is called “Feira de Mangaio”, by Sivuca, who was an accordion player. And that is exactly the idea of the arrangement, was to try to make the guitar sound like an accordion.

Hope you all enjoy it, and please send me ideas of what I can record next!

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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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