![]() ![]() Begin learning the piece by considering the form. Though Byrd favored the nylon-string guitar, as have most practitioners of bossa nova, this chord/melody-style arrangement will work equally well on the steel-string. “The Girl from Ipanema,” a prime example of the bossa nova idiom, is one of the most covered songs in recorded history, second only to the Beatles’ “Yesterday.” (For a historical perspective on bossa nova, see Mac Randall’s feature in the November 2017 issue.) The transcription here is based on an instrumental version by Charlie Byrd, the American jazz guitarist who is credited with helping bossa nova achieve its mainstream popularity in North America, as heard on his 1965 album Brazilian Byrd. The show failed to take off, but the song became a hit, first in Brazil and then internationally, thanks to a 1964 version by singer-songwriter João Gilberto and American saxophonist Stan Getz, with Astrud Gilberto singing the lyrics in English. ![]() For this project, they labored on “Garota de Ipanema,” a melancholy number about secret longing. In 1962, Brazilian poet Vinicius de Morae and songwriter and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, having had success in composing songs for the 1959 film Black Orpheus, set out to collaborate on a musical comedy about a Martian visiting the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. From the May/June 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Adam Perlmutter ![]()
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