Baden Powell Licks

The Brazilian acoustic guitar player Baden Powell is one of the key figures in the bossa nova movement. He was born in 1937 and named after the founder of the boy scouts, Robert Thompson Baden Powell of whom his father (a violin player) was a big admirer.

He started playing guitar at the age of 8 and proved to be a prodigy on the guitar. He performed in the program Papel Carbono and won the first place as guitar soloist. At the age of 13 he was playing as a professional musician and got inspired by jazz music.& In 1956 he got his first big success: Samba Triste.  Another well known composition of him is 'Berimbai'.

Baden Powell had complete command over his instrument and coupled this with unique musicality.

He died in 2000 at the age of 63.

Recommended listening : 'O Universo Musical De Baden Powell'

1) This is the coda of Baden Powell's version of 'All the Things You Are' from the double CD 'Three Originals'.

The first 2 bars are the last bars of the melody and then starts a chromatic descend from Dm6 to Fmaj7.

If you find the Gbmaj7 too stretched to play relax, you can also play the note f on the high E string.