Brazilian Piano

Welcome to Brazilian Piano—A Celebration of Brazilian Style Piano Playing

We wrote a method book for people interested in learning to play Brazilian style piano:

Brazilian Piano: Choro, Samba, Bossa Nova Robert Willey and Alfredo Cardim. Hal Leonard Corporation. Interviews with João Donato, Clare Fischer, César Camargo Mariano, and Dom Salvador. introduction contents credits play-along CD

Discussion list

Brazilian pianists

Scores / MIDI files

Interesting sites

More from the authors:

• Brazilian Nights, Yamaha MusicSoft collection for Disklavier. Performed by Alfredo Cardim, produced by Robert Willey.
• Analysis of the harmonic progressions of Antônio Carlos Jobim. Robert Willey and Giordano Cabral.
• "Bossa Nova", "Influence, Brazilian Music", Robert Willey, Greenwood Dictionary of Latin Music, forthcoming.

Everyone wants to samba!

Photograph: Marcello Casal Jr., Agência Brasil

You could be hearing Choro - ©2007 Alfredo Cardim