Brazilian Piano

Welcome to Brazilian Piano—a celebration of Brazilian piano playing

We wrote a method book for people interested in learning to play Brazilian music on keyboard:

Brazilian Piano: Choro, Samba, Bossa Nova. Robert Willey and Alfredo Cardim. Hal Leonard Corporation, forthcoming.

• introduction
• contents
• bonus tracks
• credits
• thanks

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", Greenwood Dictionary of Latin Music, forthcoming.
  
  

History

Brazilian pianists

Interesting sites

Scores

Bibliography

Discography

Everyone wants to samba!

Photograph: Marcello Casal Jr., Agência Brasil

You could be hearing Exercise in F#m - ©2007 Robert Willey