Desafinado NO BASS Backing Track Bossa Nova – Here the bassist can apply his lines to this standard of Brazilian music.

“Desafinado” is a song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonça. The song was released in 1958 by João Gilberto and was included on the album “Chega de Saudade” in 1959. The song is a response to those critics who said that bossa nova was “music for out-of-tune singers”, but this strangeness generated in the beginning was due to the lazy and syncopated rhythm, the sophistication of its melody and the unusual harmonic construction.

It is a very representative song for the history of Brazilian music, since it is considered that Brazil took a huge leap in the early 60s entering modern life due to the new technological advances that the entire world was experiencing. “Desafinado” was one of the main soundtracks for these events.

The song is also known as “Slightly Out of Tune” and “Off Key”, titles given to the English language.

This song has been performed by many great artists, among them we can mention Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Charlie Byrd, Joe Diorio, Ron Carter, Scott Hamilton, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, George Michael, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Olmir Stocker, Nelson Faria and many others.

The song “Desafinado” is considered a jazz standard and can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 112, in “The New Real Book vol.1” on page 65 and in the “Songbook Bossa Nova – Almir Chediak vol.2” on page 60. It was from this last book that we took the sheet music to produce this backing track because it is an author with great authority on the subject of bossa nova.

This backing track is made up of drums, piano and guitar. The tempo is 160bpm. (or 80bpm in the 2/4 time signature typical of this style)

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