Aaron Gilmartin builds your Bossa Nova guitar technique step-by-step, providing chordal exercises, melodic passages and syncopated picking along with invaluable guitar advice and musical knowledge.  He opens the lesson with his original song “Hold the Place” based around a typical four-chord progression that will give your playing an instantly recognizable Brazilian sound while putting it into a present day singer/songwriter context.  Teaching in “little bites” so you can absorb each musical idea, Aaron carefully demonstrates the chord shapes, rhythms, turnarounds, and progressions that will allow you to work out arrangements for “Girl from Ipanema”,  “Black Orpheus”, “Desafinado” and other international hits.  Music and tab enclosed.