Guitars usually have six strings, but the Brazilian 7-string guitar, commonly used in Shoro and Samba, has a seventh lower string.

I've long thought about trying to learn to play the 7-string guitar, but let's be honest, I've got my hands full with just the six strings.

Welcome to Strong Songs a Podcast about Music.

I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you join me even though I've now done

three intro facts in a row about the guitar and there are in fact other instruments in the world.

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Come slash drawn songs.

On this episode, we're stepping away from pop and rock styles into a whole new world of music

one filled with gentle grooves, lush harmonies, and softly sung melodies

all written by one of the greatest composers of all time.

So let's tune up the band, find the lavada, and get cooking. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I wish I could remember the moment I realized that Antonio Carlos Chobin was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century,

but I think it wasn't quite a moment so much as a gradually dawning realization, a slow rediscovery of a composer whose music I had spent years playing and performing, but whose genius I had never properly understood.

As a jazz saxophonist, I had of course learned his most famous

songs at least well enough to play them on a gig, songs like The Girl for Me

Binema. And then and young and lovely the gal from Or desifenfenado,

desicfened.

If you're sifenado,

if you're if you're see

that You're sensist, that's the enclassific. Both songs that were famously recorded by saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joao

Gilberto on their 1964 eponymous collaboration that would become the record that defined

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