Guitar in Latin America by Carlos Barbosa-lima

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RCA:

A PERSONAL VIEW

by Carlos Babosa-Limaas tod 10 Peter Dnne

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large an varie opic. I can be hear a ovehe ninen, om Coomba an Venezuea

n he norh o Argenna an Chie n he souh A ofhese counes inhere he Pouguese an Spashspeaing raiions of hei Eupea coonies, anhe guiar as remine an inea pa of hosecuures nk i is mpoa keep n min ha hensrumen s par of he aiy ves of hose peope

Since conial imes he peope of Souh Ameica havepaye he ia in one way o anohe- accompanysongs an ances ceebra hoHays, o o somehing Ou of his a arge c of he guia has eveope has been incorpoa no popua ancemsn al kins of manisaions, an many skf s of paying have evove he eason his ino happen i he Uni Sa uing he 9hcnury was ha hee was much ess ines hee nhe scale assca Ibian aons

By e u of he 20h cenuy poca an soiaansaons n he wo e an nceibe wave ofSpanish masers Souh Ameica A a esu of he

SpanishAmeican Wa in 1898, Span suere conseabe economic sebacks, an many peope wee ce ee hei choice was ehe come he nSes or Souh Amerca an i ws o Lan Americah mos of hese emigrs une. Agenina waseconomically one of he mos pmising counes aha ime, an aso ha a g cuua cmae SBuenos Aies was one of hei es opions

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Anohe was ava Cua gaine is inepenence a he en of he as cenuy as a esu of heSpanjsh Wa so i became an opon oo avana wasa kin of gaeway r Spansh cuue n his par of hewol You ha guia makers an musias gonghere, an somees hey wou pass hrough avanaon he way Souh Ameca One o Tega's suens, Pascua Roch, exampe, wen Cuba

u somehow, was uenos Aes ha aac

hem mos earne a repuion as he place o ryou he new onie hink aches mae hs choicepay ecause of heir any o he anuage, ansomemes hey have a reaive o en aeayiving hee A numbe of aches an makes haaeay see hee, so he uir was ourshingGaspa Saeas was ivng i n Buenos es as eay s860, Jua aer in 878, an Juan Crusas a few

yeas a A number of ais aso wen hee onur anaos, insance wen o Aenina wihAnioJmne Mn, he bngais who payea muising gia- hnk i ha n o eevensrngs e ha ceve grea eviews in Span My

eache saias Sao, hear hm someime aroun98 Man evenuay see n Agenna

hee were ohe mpoa peope own hee oo,ike Anonio Sinpohe was an imporn eowan Juio Saers I hink aeas was imon inconnecion wih Agenina hen he was DomngoPra. Pa was a man of Renassance cuue e wasnaniay we o; he ha peny of money an as a

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udent of Trrega, was an important link with thepnh tradition

So you can ee that the gir had already enorsing natraly nsde South meica snce coo

e But beieve om the md 9th cenuyards the atr pat it oushed more because

peadualy studied it moreTe pncipl South meica counti r heivaton of the gt a a eou tument in the

ly sage were, would say rst rgentina, thenugay nd gdualy hle But ome of the other

gt have aken more time o absorb it The utr a lite bt behnd n Brazil I think We Brazilanbo own reion love r the nstrument gong wayb For nstace, here ad been a Brazian muc by the name of Mol Botlho who had gonetn far back as 1750. He s repoed to havetn sonaas r the gitar But there were actuallyey few people teacg Apparenty hey were veyoatd There might have been eache in Rio andaybe one or two in the North

e have been tking about the yeas bee Lobet

e based down there which I tik was theiest nuence of . Mgue Llobet had traveled oa around 192 and actually ived r a whie netna Llobet wa a geat reveation because of hsl status s sandard w so high tha heedey became an ipraton o them. Apparey he had con tacts o come back aer hawith the

iy t Uruay and Che and te other coun-es t would have been vey eay to book concet-bt then war broke out n Europe n 194

lot dd vst Braz once n 1916 or so, and thentna, where he und a haven wth the Anidoly here was a Spish gutrist there by the

neof Josena Robedo She had ben one oega'uilsand was suppoed to have one of the mot perfectolos of al tme That was her big thing but shepayed ve sweety Savio heard hr n Montevdeobt he made a pecia trip o Rio; appntly t con-ed some of her husband business cnnectonsh aught a man caled Owado ares Sore ant because e pubished the rst boo for thetr n Brai t was a fary gd book of about 0pages, wth exercie that were uppoed fomras traditon and then music ke Bachs littePlude r lue, and a combnaton o pece t was theft book I became acquanted with Soares aterean archenemy of Savio bcaue Savio's ach s much etter han his

ter on, ar the Spanish Cv War in the 193s!gntna would agan became a natura haven rnsh exile But n te meantme Agustn Barrow aready there Baros was a native of Southca, and, accoing to my tacher Savio had

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appnty had a vey gd acher who eoged thradtion of Man Aleg (Lobethad n oneof Alegs tuden). here were appy omeeachers with that knd of approach who had gone oSouth Aeca. S Baos wth his i pobabyImjust gessing om my eaches iomaonookome eons in Paguay om one of Aees studen and then wenttBuens Aires wt prentto study the Aege method more fully. Bio w a

phenomenon Wie a these people were coming oSuth Amerca he was aready here playn nd hews paying classica maera, pu mc npred bylk dances d l

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Svio aid he hd Barios in the eato Sos inMonevdeo someime ar 191 whch men Savowoud have ony en aound 12 yeas old at the meThe concer wa a bg, big succe. A the me Savow iving n BuenosAand had aveed o Uuayto there he proxmt of Uuuay and Argentna sve coe Uruguay you know i a fascinatng ittlecount Its smaller than e stte of Sa Pauo, yet has producd an incredbe anity r the uir nt, not ony of good chng but od players.radionaly t h lway ben a id of a cener rguiathat and r. Montido attacd mnyppe because of t bautful baches There w aknd ofEuropean cha t the c that t actually keptpret much r a good pat of hs centu It preseedsome of those adback plac I have many Uru

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gaya eds who have a great aty wth Bazl.They have cuoms that are ve sml o he oes the southe Brazlia staes, especaly Rio Gade d oS

That wave of aches goig to Soth Ameia wasve mpoat, ad I beeve some of them came to he

Ued Saes I hk he tos of Llobet adSegova wer mpoat ad espealy the movemeof Agus Brros ecase Baos avelled loverSoth Amer the s He wa Bzl whereVlla-oos appretly heard hm ad w ve muchake yh playg

Thee s a program publshed i oe of the odBrazla magzes showg hat rros played acocert, I tk t was 1916, whch e shaed hepogram whCaoCeaese, the melos Baza sogwer I araged a ot ofCatullo's msc ackwhe I was my ees Catlo was the rst oe poparze he mi, wch s a Brazla rm of

so ove sog, galat ad compave, ot ke thefados of Pogal whch ae vey sad ad b. Ouhave a deret sweet adess Catlo was a gutarplaye, oo, sce he ceaed hi ow style, ad wascompeey sefaght He came om the Norh ofBraz, Maahao, a rather desolae rego wthotay ts e came o Ro i the lae part of the 19thcet wth hs utar accompayg sos I levethat mght have e oe of the odest ms of gaacmpamet cmg om Ibera roos, t he haddeveloped a syle that s stl ea oday Heplayed a coer Ro as eay 1908 that wa sposoed y the Bza govemete PresdetactallyHermes de Foseca cdetly, thePesdets wife, the st ady, had studed the gai Frce the ast pat of the 9th tuy wthsomeody who had stded w NapoeoCos Theres tres coecto ther. Whe that happeedt was probaly he vey st ocal coce wthsmebody play the ar Braz f orse, heeem of the goveet bega o blast t: ve thegrss pay thee" Tat was a ve mpoat me Bazla musc Dot fget that m of sogampamet had a dect appeal to people, ad thewe had the arva of the chOros.

hve lk a bt at the chs cs ts a vempoat apt of Bazia muic ad detely he

gui was vovd fom the g of t, the atve adpcp tumet hee fo hat m At e begg of hscrVlla- was a chos player; thatshow he sd, a a vagad gog aroud payghag ot wh ope, ad hats how he sdsveg Ba r erms of muc foms Bythe lat of 19tu, as sad, e gar was areadyapg, re d her, soad, ad t ws emergg the cts s w Te chos ga o oc wth ppe

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gettg ogeheyo had omethg sma theed Ses, beieve wth se seeade, whethey sed pay in a jammig mat ad people wesuppsed t mpvse emelodes or corrhyhmt he Brazla sye ourished sch away hata the stme could ke p wth what

ever yo d Eve he ao was dow hee at the of e tuy Aydy wth creav des o ke p a rmat lke that wold playhe ho I leve that h a ltle bt of a rue touch, beaue Brzla musc ha a grt eco wthhe baue: Bach adlhat This s why te Bachinased There a ds of baroqe oches i ormsc ad that countpuntonu tict acmpamet Ayay he chos staed le that

But in he meanme, Baros was

aleady hee playig, ad he was

playing classical mateial pls muscnspied by flk daces.

People wod se waltzes also was still ae o seethat mat durg oe of my eay tps to the oof the cout A op of sereades oce woke me p the mddle of he ght with the msc fortaly that tado s dyg ow, expt r smagrops tg o keep the taditio alive So they wouldcome wae yo p wth a eatiful pece, ad the theywould go o some othe place Thee would be a ut, aguar, maye a celo o. Well, maye the celo soheavy o ar those places Ths s why the gitahas sch a geat appal Bt evetualy you mght da ceo group Yo mght d the ao, or that tteur-stig uta the caaquinho.

Bt t get back to te vey ealy pat of ths cetr,I th Vlaos was asoluely the majo ieeot oly Brzl, ut he etre otet I hkhe gave the gr a mo sats the AmercasToday people a beng o ealze hs imporaceHe was ot the st classca tr comp ofcos bt we dot havetomay th the eat evelof ceatvty that he had I ou days thgs ae chagg ut VilaLobos played the ga, ad accodgt

tadto he leaed how to pay the celo objgow Hewoe hs Suite Populir Bresilnne ve ealy i the20th cetury The Sut was the rest of a itresgpheomeo happg aoud the ast pt of the19th ctuy twads he egg of ths oe Europea ms gig a pace i Baza frms, megwt Braz ms Ths s why he woe a WatzCho, a waltz the chos style ad a MazkaChr A these ropea ms ged a much moe

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d bck eeing in our music There is also a Schosh,d hen hre is h Poka The poka wa very popularown there a th o te century Ad you ndhr ms bcus thr was some immigaon fmaste Europ aso in th idde o the 19th cnuryhe souhern par of Bra om Russa, Germany

what ar now the Savc counres hse ms,

d they began o mrg wh our own oishngue. Bcause most tradional razilian frms rn and the ludu, which has a ll bit o th

rcan ng ad vry contrapun o. So developngrms mixe

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blive Vla-bos was vey attaced by thegt. Ardng t Savo there had n somdyeang in io using he Aguado mho by th late9 cnuy There wr no many ache thenabjus one or two and apparny ther was one nnohrn Brazl (ou can magn only two poplecing wh som sor of a mho bk!) liveha Via-bos wth s genius probably had someconct w ths person but then realy studied o hisown Accordng to hs own memois ad om statmens he made wle he was alv h prty muchd ou al that counepon om ach ad thet mase of the pas Alrady in th ealy wor ofe Su Poplar yu cn se m exploiting aredible amount of innr voicings a these move

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mnt, and ounrint h and ee. You ca alrady s a dent kind o appoah d of hevrtial hamoc structur

The w sm othr opl who play guby ar Wn Savio arv n a 930, meta wo hes msan H sad i wa h t nd anyonpayg ad musc h was atihed at hee was much reaive paying wiout yslat .Onof hm ws Joo Pmbu nica ht

o naive S noes; waGmare. Appanty h wa a fac player Thare ecorigs of h mad n 1928 and 1929 r Ban RCA Vior His plang was ve ve,not mmon among playe o e e You heain bu's plang a ean v a h ualpayr But hr ar also adio o anohr payr, Sai ihar, a g nd o Villas adEsoN Acong o Savio Saro Blhrwasgeat ch. s s a gd wo o ue, ; in Portuuese t meas you play hOos ad you ae big dohatyoue "choro whch h a doubl myou aut ia v enen nnoon.

genera the wod cM mens "c; hts e emoo, youre suppo o ad xp yolove one ou reade a gir neah her wndow andat one t you mght h or get her far owing

you somethng wet and not peasantThe Braian love song has a sweetness tht is

dern rom th fado I thnk cam mo throughhe Azore hat happier natura se of mind o thold serenaders have diussed wh on Pewhos t wife, ann, dd incdib eseah on hod Pougese nuen om h oe, and I m convnced ha vn my famly hs an rannkage comng om that region he Islands the

was a dirnt kind o swtnss glant, pt sstil vy sad The guar wa aways theeUnt ve rcently, the wl was s qu common

n the ouyside hats he od exprssion r gitarom vhua, with v doube sig Thash way it was bought to Bra, and it sy herun now may dying out a litle biut n unyside the v doubl srngs with the direnunngs Smms you hav a coupl of stin v very int approachom tunngwith th thrd n f-shap; omtms you av like a Guning ra th sack-ey uitr. The al racd to th Potugus. In he man, hy boughthe uu o awa n the 9h centuy, and hcquih t razl. These all have sam root,he da of a hghpiched guiar, bu n Brazl hecaquih aso bcam pa o he chros and thraians egan usng both a pluking sle and aetum styl-fngr d m- me of autd sy insead o ust sg. Th ukul

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in Hawa is pimaily strumming, at east that's therdon athough ve seen great payers combngst nd pluckn.

her wer so a number of pins that need obe menioned One of te eary piss o have anmpact in Bl ws Lous Moreau Gothalk (18291869). He was bo in New Oreans so he woud have

own ometing abut the Carbbean mix there. Ist t the cosest thng I can nd n the UnedStates n tm of anty with Brazilan musc s NewOrean ue of that ross-cutura roEuropeanblend Gohlk went Che in 866 nd stayedthere a ll yea He ws a fanttc pianst, admrd bythe Eopn masers, and when he aved n Ro n869 t was a bg shk cause people not only hearda geat payer, but aso one pang sometng thatatd t em He styed in Ro the rest of hs ife andded the. Tee are umors that he was enjoyng lfetwel dow there

Now I hae o k a bit about Ernes Naareth

(863934), who demonstrad a r music at ae early ge. One of his tradtona pieces is caedBrjeiro Mscevous) and was a big hit n Brai n880He was a piast but echoed other things as weYouc see n hs musc that the piano is ke a itteecho of oher sounds Ths s why a lot of his works arey adaptbe t the gutar. The musc of Naathhad a big impact n Brai He was aso nd of Chopinso he began o cea beautil Braiian wates on ave gh lee ke a Braian Chopin He was admd by pple lke Vila-obos who dedcatd theCh6os No o hm Naareth went on o pruce somuch, nd he becme more and more appreciad

There were oer people of s time her w a

ady in Bri who was the rst imont womancomposer Chqunha GonagaFrancs HedwgesGonaga 87-935). She aso e some beautifumusc Nath dedcated works her and he dedcad work Satro Blhar, the guar payer, whchdeny shows that the guitar nuence s theNaaeth dedcad a pece t Bilhar caed Tenbroso,which means Ve Scay," and ts reay a guiarpece

Naares inuence was er song and 1 beeee naly receed the so of atistc recogiton hedeseed dg s lfetime, athough t was a ongtme comn In te eay pat of the centuy he ud

pay n moe houses te sent moves t happned n9ough a-Lobos geat nluence when Brawas elebratng rstcentu of ndependence herewas a e mpont eent in my home town of SAoPaulo caled a Week of Modern A" in whch manytn happened: scupture painting ieraturetwas almost ike a cutura decaraton of ndependenceThat w w fantsc ot of the ch ppe om

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the emerging industes in So aulo went thereIndust was reJy sing o oursh; there wassome money spend on e arts, so the eent becamete rst mpont a festa o be snsord bypa organiations It creaed a e mpoantwave I thnk r things that happened aer n otherpa of South meca a-bos w deni a

mor gure there He had a out-spoken personaity upaso wroe great musc Naareth tok par in teeent He was aready getting on in years (he had beenbo n 863) but he was nay abe et some kndof pubc regton My dear fend and one of mymuscal mentors Gudo Santrsoa, who ies inMonedeo, heard Naareth in his eary years andreay assocates his chdhood in So Pauo by hearngthat musc

Speakng ofSansoa hae e nd memoesof h. He wa aualy my menor n the eary '60swhen had the project of aanging a seres of songs byCatuo Cearense. Like Naareth, another thng that

brought Santrsoa memoes of his eary years wasCatulos music With hs epence I had aready aknd of aesthetic approach I waned o expore in thosesongs and he coached me harmoncay t was the stmoant sp, I thnk, in creating he same stye ofaangng that Im applying oday when Im doingobm and other composers

Naareth r me was before that nother muscamentr of mine who was aso sef taught in musicavey ne composer in Brail and a man of Renaissancecuture (he coud tk o you about anythngwasTheodoro Nouera e was recommended me byMaes Savio I was eang so of st and Saothought t woud be mo practca r me not to go

the conseato but o a oca eacher who woud acas a special kind ofa stmulant treat me as an adut was ony 12years od at e tmewas a fst eaer; Saio had made a veyear pan

r me, and I nshed t n three weeks l thnk. Hecrreced some sons and thin, and we worked onchnue and musico, but it went st Ths s stithe way t goes We, anyway Sao recommended meo Maestro Nogueira and it ended up being a wondeulassiation, because he woud come o our house, or Iwoud go to hs house wt my father of course He wasa go early menor Now Noguera in addton ntroducng me to reords of Hefet paying Bach and

Toscanini records, intduced me to the music ofNth l aready knew of the music of Naarethbeause used to pay some ofSinpois transcriptionsNogueira was vey nd of Naareths musc and hesad his beautifu musc we hae Why don you y tancrbe some of it r ur? nd I sid "I dontkno how do that I was ve young. d he sadWel l ge you a pianorgna and you oo at

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what Lbet did," bece he a vey d f heSas arrageme f Graad ad Abz byUt. I aked ai t, ad he tld me the me

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A PERSONAL VIEW

by Carlos Barbosa-Lima tod to PeerDanner

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imn in he so ofBazan music. Viaboas ac playe, ingn

a vagn n scoeng is msica Thec emege n e cies n aes m aoun he

of he nuy, jus a elrciy came ino ofe change qie a bi ae ha, an yo began na ops of msicans an ohe enenes peing on he ee hink yo ha someng ke in New Oean a we. The ui playe a naalnaa oe m hese gops, anb of em iee a gea nm of ene iss wee gena new opuny eeop

Ro ha become much moe emocac ae heesbihmen of he epubc in 1889 Baz ha beena empie bee hen (Acay I beeve Empeoeo was one of e eaes sponsos of he ase'e eve ha He was ey mch a suppoe of he. He ha a paace n o an a wn paace ineopoi whch sil sans)

B ge back o hese eay chor gops, one ofe mos impoan hings o happen in he 90s wase ise of ixinginha he impoan Baziianmpose of Aican ecen is ea name was AleoVanna "xunha beng a nckname mpuin,

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wch means a goo boy as in heArciaec Hewa a vey swee man an ey inuena n eeeopmen ofBaian msc. I wo ay he was hes one o eay each he masses xnguna was agen an a ef-gh msician e sae afutpaye in his ealy eens he s peson pooehim nenaonay on he g was Lauinoeia becase ano knew m oly a

paye wih himSo xnna ae his sene an, whgi ofwrng beaifu meoes asune eveyy eee hen suie musc may an cea a goupce Os Oio Bas a egional gop esine pay he co, playng een insmen w oneof e mpon gops n tr of playn puBiian mic an i nce Joo eb onguita. Pixnguinha's broter Dona waa n tegrop payng he Brzilian uil, the doube-stng

Os Oo Baas was a naic goup anixinuinha ei aangemen Hs conp of

ocheaion can be nke wha wa happenng neica wih Feche Heneson an a on wiDke Elingon Acay, al msily hs hamany hings ha happene sie by sie wh wha wasgoing on in he Unie Ses an I ik echeeneson wo be a goo eampe Yo ha Soopin n he Une Se an we ha Naaeh i

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Brz We had Catulo and you had ostr n the earysages and Ing Berln too. There's also a arge nbewen Braziian music and the Caribbn and cr knds of American musc

Os Oi Batus wa a bi Enoous Nowgadualy, w te adven of the radio and recordings,

e music began reacing many more people his wasinstumena musc, but Braz has always had a natural any r val music; its jus natural r peoplet sng here ts pa of the culture. oul havesomedy in e hose dong the cleaning and apesn wil sning n he sower, sinngitsnaura Tere is singng everywhre: in the busses onthe trains in the streets; you cannot see a Braziangroup sitng sti So wh he advent o e rado,ogeer w Pinguiha's talent (and of coursesome oer peope oo n he same era) you know whaappened cs bgan o be added o some of hepeces

Pnguinha went to France n he 20s a he same

me that VllaLoos and George Gershwin had goneere. aris ad become sort of the o spot aer WorldWa ixngunla ad gone tere ust t pay Heund he wners mserale whc was rather how Ife dung my rs wner n te Uned Ss! ande was ve omesic bu e was a eat success woud say as was cuuraly e center of e wordat ha ime Vila-bos realy epanded s careerthere He ended up going bac oBrazi aards, butVilla-bos always ept a ome there: ur months inPas, ur months n New York (a the same hotel teWesbury, were Segovia used to stay, oo)A s oizons xpanded, ngunha deveod

muscy have ked uindo Almeda au hsand e age ha Pingunha ncporae pats othos dierent regons natully cause te c bean ncorora all inds o ings including them, and songs wih all inds o rhythms ha peopebing wit eir imainations e wa ve manin he developme ofBzilan music CarlosJobm ldme tat xna's nuenc maned stong upu s dea n te s nguna absolutely lovedte bossa nova aer t had been deveoped by Jobm

I menioned aoo Peambuco who ral namewas oo exera Gumares ad n a memr onguas gop He never recved a frml musc

uon e was a completey sef-ugt musician bute knew exacly where he haonies and cotinwe. He e at om pur insincve eperenHe n't know ow wte music but he le a o ofoinal musc in the m of recorings. These rcordnga aufu, o gd and ca And he e somedueso,whc he played sme o scontemoraries s no at Vas ws miar with smusic

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Some o eambucos musc hs now en publshedFor ampe there's the famous "Sound ofBells I madean anemen of at adding a ot o inner vongs,almst lie echoing wa e ensmle woud play;thtwa my approac ha pe s payed t by mospe. You ow wh?Becau n the 194s he mouchrnh

m came up in Braz and t bcme mucliger and astr, echoing he beop version in BrzlBut actuay t's much slower, the tradional way ofpayng. d back ha's e key Theres a aurecdin by undo nd Carlie By n tha reordBilian Sou. That ecord desered a Gray.

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All s gur aciy nBrazl atrac Isas San Monvdeo Saio ad en suding w Llobecuse lot ved nBuenos Ars and e would come Monvde to pay and tey got o be geer quia lo Or Saio would go Buenos Aires Its abou 3mlesby oat and a nce p Even n those days you couldke a oaat night instead of staying in a hol andyouwould arve n the mong s sl a voit way to tere use air vel n u Ameia is more exnsive tn you woud eve

So, Savio worked wit Lot and en e abecame ntrestd n eplong he radtonal rous ofdierent pars of Sou America especialy the Rio dea Pat, and ae Brazl He became absolutey aBrazian by eat Savio ad a boheman mprament by nature, and e cme Braz in 930 ecause ad eard repos o Barros success there and hewand o epore he Brazlan cuure because terwere rumors o ese records and al ths acivynvolvin uitar He rs wen o oro Aegre made alitle money, went t So Pauo, made a lte moemoney went L Rio ran ou o money and decided osty o was ie a itle paradise ten He settl

er r awhile and then went Beo Hozone auiful city wich ad been inspred by WashingonDC He styed there I tink r a year, ught, andeme invoved in sudng e lklore He a bcomevery atracted to Via-Lobos work by hen

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eced by e Depresso. Brazil was s oung andt bare sng to be an ndustria cout.Savot have settle n So Paulo, but tere ad en a revoluon tere n 1932, to overtrow t feeralovement esbish costtuonl ovet I ha unce wo fout in tat ere wereope n Le feerl government wo accuse Soalo of seceing but it was ot; it was r te cottoa movemet The revoluton was ete, but

e ieas cme back ater o altou b 937 we adoter dctrsp mposed but So aulo's ease pobab muc later So t wa ot the rt tmer Savo to go to So aulo Tig were pretty un-be tere

Ro woud ave bee attractve to, becuse teao Nacon was there aundo Amea camem Sanos n the stae o So aulo a went Rioi 35 becuse rio ws ourisig n d jobs rople Saio tout o ettng a job plan on teo but I hae old-time ie o f is wo is now n late 0s who l me tat Savio ecide te tathe wa really more ito eachi ta in pang

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Svo tod me that wheeve he ud someyeachig a e b, hey wee using either the Cacaior guado metod hat was much id what wsgoig o i Agena at the tme where e Sageasbook were ady aviable Sn6pol had ao pu-ished a veon ofguados metho wth some trncip-

ons o e leve of player a Domngo rat waoher imoant iuence wh s nk wh the oldEuope ton I dot thik ope toay could dosomeng e s dictionay eve wih compu Heput so much time io it and didn hae wo abouthe money He ws an ncdibe scho Eey bit ofoaon he le u s absolutely e Wen omaosdd hs esach on the ore guitr he tk a lot fomPat d he nd eveythng that t sid seemed te te He bcme ey coset the Anid ad he keptn coesodence with Saio o. Actualy, hisDwcinrihe h a e ice quoe aut Saio, cauSvo w know the ust comig up

Oswarldo Soaes wrote the st mpont method

in Bazl but he aught in a vey ohodox socaledega way that don't thk ever existed is approach o the ight had was more as you pctue theway Tega played athough I my beee thaega didt pay al the time with his right hand asshown the fmous pictueit ooks posed photo-gaphg!

Pat aso camed hs appoach was ey Tega-le, and Savo said it was pobably te But Saio hadstuded wth Llobet, and Llobet was hs st nuence,ust as Llobet's had een Main Aee It was the bassofthe idea of using ee and rest stroke atrated andcombed the igh hand ad the the use a

combato of egato an staccat r both hadsSomewhere aong the lie he mus have had somecoct with that whee the ight ha s moe atualy cuved and ceating moe contast of acuaoApparently that idea of mutiacuatio ame omthe hgh level of stig playg We lobet studiedwith ega they probably went o othe thigLobet was already a payer of a vey hgh evel by theSao claimed that the muaculaton idea cameom Loets achg ad immediately absorbed thatYou appy oth rest ad ee stoke ad combne bothThatwasega's aching which sutd the Bazlanneed ey wel The tndency of the Brazians was topay mosty ree strokee sti g whieaothe oice s heard on the mmedate stg.

Baro wa oe of South Ameican urss oplay more n the tiando style; thats what Sao n-med me Barros became acquaited wth the rest-stoke dea but pobaby use t ey miimaly hsis why Saio raed Baos stye much beneath that ofthe LobeUAege adton

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I was taught by Savo in both ways (hat was hsway); he wated you o deveop a naura insct Yomight se one diection moe than the othe epeningon you appoach but the pesentton of both woudenabe ou to create a wispea possibiliy r instt change of stye cudg stethes the le

hadSaio absorbed Lobet's chool which he claimed hbrough to Bazl An Sao was scatd whn hehead Segovia Thee wa derent tone uay ane quaity was oe of the ths he nsisd o witeey student Saio and ae tro Segovia never got onthere were pobems. Segova aways had some d fappaent esistace ao which I ud ovious in1968

whn I wen to Spin Ro Savio met a few people who were playig in

he chros stye sually h e ud that thei ght hawas in sot of bad shape but these people were pocing pizzcat against a note in the bass lie That was astyle that on f inheted some of But Savo wanted

them t lea righthand techque a more relaxeway wth the lassca taditon so you could do thatad be ab o do that pizzcato whe you wand.hats what Bof maed a he eaned . ToSavio each student was a peca case

Saio bean to wite his boks thee wee thebkhe wot n te 193s that wee pubished y asaDlViccho n So Paulo one of the uitr makes One ofhee k of abut 5 pages s amost ike a condenmethd on tehnique t's a fantc k wth streesu jumps thrds plag the le had aone wtharmoic i the ght hanis ncrdibe, reay ebgn we is method boks n the 30s d g

them o cordi i 1947 and Ricod nay pubishehem in 196. ts ntresting Inever studied fom thboks myself Savio was e economical wih s tdens he book wee not there, but he thought coulstudy some hnical eeses nd go riht the muscHe woud go alog wth what eve studet eedesscmeoutin 96andamvelous ahoughey hae not yet n dsvee he scod olume, ntne, has a ente seon sudng chords and of atred chords hat would be vey usfu jaeope itesd n this so of echnique He w vefarsighd n tha. He od icod he had lost a rolumethere were no phoocopies n those day Tthid voume coaed very adanced studis. e smos of them were nsped by hopn ad used eaadvaced ehnique u ese were os We w sthae o ve wth that

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s n incredible msican. We cnshere how al hevnus have somehow had an iuence Fst here we teche swado es who had stdied whJosena Robedo Now ares tught Atlo Badii So Pauo, who pblished ome lovely bok andtuies. I went throgh some of these bere I mt Saod think hy cold e vey useful as pepaaytus Thy a inenc by Tgavey mch it ohodox stye and adion Bead w teachr of Garoo, ad Gaot omehow absorbed hsching and mded em a te bt He probabycme acquaintd dcty wh avios ching asl; thik muscl neds ude you int change Gats stshing re in ian musc I tnk h a geus way ahead of hs time He ded ve youngi the 950s, t he an incdible egacy. Founaely,lcton o hs music has bn mad Snce he stdidih Bnadini he is the ony one in tht ia tradion who des not have a dect ink t ao

Svo aso inlencd the peple nterd in Brzili pula musc For insn you have Dilemandoes and othes who have studid cassc mc as well

hen Savo sudid he Brazian s and began me music in tse s and a asy como-ions, so that averge son cold play somhingsically with good aste Its mpotnt hav musclk that In the meantme he was eaching traditionalata like S and ado and eiving em e hadtdied all that material with Llobet A cople of hsdiions are really wndu, becae while ther werem changes made hee and thee he had deinielytudd aI the 19th cntuy tadtions w Llobe Hewas not happy wth ome of the publishers in Buenoses a h im they we vy niv He published lo of musc wih Rico in ueno Are I hink tey

have que a legacy of hs. here are many ofTegastanscpions whch nded a il bi of revsion, bas Trega ded without revising them and throghth stdes, h had wth obt ao just tok ot a fewofthe excv slides and eced a cope of wongo he and hee Thas all he did. He publishd a otofegas tancptions I bliv h also had a cor-ndenc wi Trrgas son in Span as wel as whol Savio tld me tha ot was a ne, wondfulayer may no wth th ncdb imma mpachat Sgv hd, t probablyust mcal Savio saidhat when he heard Segovia n Buenos Aires, th thingshat caght h aeni we the phrang the com-

nicatin th ploration of the srpsng oneolos Th sde Svio incorporad om wtchingegovia pay

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People wee bcoming moe and more ntd inpayng the guita and Sao w gvng esn then So Paulo which meanttathe w lwaysnayburdned By the tme mt m ound 1955 h wstlng o mae a ving. Taching w but ling na ve modes pace 'm vy happy ha I cme a eghtme bgan play a o at tha eary sge d byh end of th 950s the bssa nova had exposion Bail

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