Wednesdays, October 7th – November 11th
About this Event
Email Tracy directly for lower-priced Registration:
Direct Price: $250
This class meets every Wednesday for six weeks starting October 7, 2026.
Here are the dates: October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 11
The time is 6-7pm
Location: The upstairs front classroom at Artichoke Music
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Let’s get jamming on Bossa Nova and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
This class will is for the student who wishes to learn(or improve) Bossa Nova the beautiful Bossa Nova Guitar. Taught by Tracy Kim, who has been teaching and playing this style for over 25 years.
Guitar will be the focus and used to for demonstrations. However, All Instruments are welcome to join in! PDFs with TABS will be emailed to students and will be used for Guitar and Ukulele. Standard notation is included for all other instruments.
Student will also receive a link to TRACY‘s custom interactive Play Along For each song!
This term is a special introduction to Bossa Nova- perfect for the beginner and a great review for the intermediate players. Each class is 60 minutes and will focus on a different song(or two) each week.
For each song, students will learn the melody, chords(lots of amazing chords!), and comping(accompaniment). As a bonus, Tracy will also discuss and teach chord melodies from this list of select songs.
The songs for this term:
- So Danco Samba
- Girl From Ipanema
- Black Orpheus(Manhã de Carnaval)
- Meditation
- How Insensitive
- Wave
- Corcovado
- Jardin d’Hiver
- Watch What Happens
- Also, Laufey’s “From the Start” To demonstrate how the Bossa Nova is used in popular songs today.
These songs have been hand selected by Tracy especially for the beginner/intermediate players.
Please Note: You can do a $50 drop-in rate per session(upon availability).
Please contact Tracy via email: [email protected] if you would like to “drop-in”.
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Event venue & nearby stays
Artichoke Community Music, 2007 Southeast Powell Boulevard, Portland, United States
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