Girl From Ipanema Harmonic Analysis 

Amazing analysis! It is worth mentioning Tom Jobim was hugely influenced by impressionist composers (especially Debussy) and their usage of tonal ambiguity and modal sensations. Great lesson and cheers from Brasil :)

just like the girl from ipanema or every girl really. good parable ;)

Content keeps getting better Thanks man You make difficult concepts easy to grasp

Beautifully explained !!! Niiiiiiiiice and clear, informative, approachable and digestible. I think I wanna see more of YOUR videos. Really dude, I've seen a lot of these jazz tutorials and yours are about the best so far. Us who struggle all our lives to learn this kaka, we thank you, muuuaaaaaa ! :)

Haha. Nice ending! Analysis was brilliant as always. Thank you for making me a better musician!

I love these harmonic analyses!

Excellent.Your analytical aproach is very interesting.Please do more.Thank you for the upload.

"Forever just outside of your reach" is pretty much the point. This is why this tune is so good.

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Excellent Jazz Piano Tutorial. Thank you.

Excelent!!!!! It has been really helpful todo me! Thanks for sharing!!

Fantastic, thanks!!

outstanding video, thank you very much sir

‘Or every girl’ hahhahaahhaa This channel should have more more and more subscribers Great analysis!

Tremendous, and tremendously clear, as usual. Even better, your allusions to the aesthetic purpose or use made of this harmonic ambiguity and its unresolved tensions (its 'floatiness') is invaluable. Talk of technicalities all too often eclipses aesthetic purpose which is surely of primary concern.

amazing job!!

The musical validation of THE LAW OF PROXIMITY. As one gets close the centre of a under investigation situation, the whole just slips away. Thus the conclusions never seem to cover the actual conditions. Yours nevertheless is superbly excellent. Thank you so much. More of such analysis is always welcome, for musical inlightment. Merry Christmas to you.

Excellent, thank you.

We've been listening to the same tracks lately, thanks for the analysis

Gracias muy bueno, excelente canal!!!

That was amazing

"Or every girl, really"... funny, true.

Third analysis was great, made much more sense when playing it

Ahaha this ending!)) And yeah, more bossa please! And thank you for the amazing content!

Great and clear! The last analysis is like that of mine. Like you said, this composition drives me to different analysis every year. I thought it’s only my problem. So I happy to learn from you that its the nature and richness of the composition. Can you also please analyze Desifinado? Best.

I keep returning to your analyses. Would you do more Jobin analyses. Your a real master at analysis. Thank you for your excellent uploads.

Great job, si señor. Olé, olé y olé.

Love it! More Bossa pleeeease

Buddy, You are amazinging. Yes, i meant the extra ing You are talented. Thank you for your sharing this.

GREAT Stuff! Thanks so much for sharing. I view and hear the 1st chord of the B section as a IV chord in the key of Db rather than a I. This makes the second chord a bVII7 (more consistent with the rest of your analysis). So in version 1 (the direct modulation analysis) the 2nd phrase begins with a IIm chord in the new key and again goes to a bVII7 (again, a pretty typical jazz progression and very "Jobim-like"). From here on I see it like you do, back to the original key of F: ii (Gm) - bVII - iii - VI - ii - V. As you say, it really is a brilliant (genius!) progression. BRAVO.

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Brilliant

Thanks.

Very nicely explained. Can you explain the harmonic analysis of the bridge of the song “ just the two of us” it is a series of chromatic maj7 ans dominat chords 😢

Yo man! I love these harmonic analysis, is it possible to do a D'angelo song of your choice??

Jobim, what a genius, I keep wondering, what did he really think when he composed theses harmonies, maybe the melodies came first. I don't know...

Hello. Thanks à lot. Very very interesting. THANK YOU for this analysis. What is à IV7 borrowed dorian ? Best regards

Is there a way to test yourself - or tricks? - to quickly learn to identify when a chord is borrowed from the locrian or Dorian mode or other modes?

Jobim, like Gilberto, were great composers

In section A, the real book uses a Gb7(b5) rather than just Gb7as a tritone sub. Can you always do this? (flatten the fifth)

Isn't the G7 in bar 4 just a V/V secondary dominant preceding the V (C7), which in this case has been subbed for its tritone sub the Gb7 and preceded by a ii chord? Is it really a case of modal interchange here or is that just another way of viewing it? I don't find it too helpful to view it that way because it blurs the line with true modal interchange. The Bach piece I'm currently practicing is full of V/Vs, surely they aren't modal interchanges too? Good video btw, thanks

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good lord! a tortured analysis if there ever was one. it would suffice to say that jobim liked the novelty of the abrupt half step key change and melody that starts the bridge (and mimics the halfstep-tri-tone-substitute-cadence-tag at the end of section one, BTW). and then deftly escapes from the far flung unrelated key (in another twelve measures to the comfort and security of a classic iv/ii/v/i turnaround) by means of symmetry in the form of a minor third flanked by two identical half-steps and a thrice repeated parallel melody. and in the process created, in 1962 with the help of stan getz and the voices of the gilberto family, an international hit song.

One point about the melody you didn't cover is that the on last 4 bars of the bridge (B section), it lingers on the #11 of the dominant 7 chords. This implies a lydian sound. Then again, this video is a harmonic analysis, so this might not be so important.

Hi, eu sou brasileiro (i'm brazilian), and i'm studying so much your videos, thank you so much for everything, keep teaching all of us! But can u put english lyric in your videos? Then i'll translate everything!

it's in key of Db

Here's the legendary musician Bob Strauch's version with his own lyrics: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IDxLedytMm0.html

Trying to understand the harmony in this song left me infinitely more confused than I was when I just memorized the chords :(

I understand that different ears hear differently. But honestly all of them are too complicated, theoretically makes sense but doesn't really make any musical sense. If you sing those 3 phrases starting from "mi fa mi re mi re do re" as constant structures I guarantee you will suddenly find this tune is so simple and clear and wisely written.

“Girl from Ipanema” - Great music found in all good elevators everywhere.

Yeah! Just like the Ipanema girl. Or every girl under the sun.

Not "narrowed" damm auto typer "BArrowed".

Thank you for this analysis but I wanted to point out that you're playing the melody wrong in the first section.

La versión de Joao Gilberto es superior

So, on more careful study, it's pretty confusing, PLEASE define your terms carefully like "narrowed" and "median substitution" Doesn't the term median refer to degree 3, not 6?, and back door etc. thanks

sounds like wii music

This sounds exactly like music that Nintendo uses

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It's easier to listen to the song that this guy drone on.