Online Guitar Choro Club - Session 5: Um Tom Para Jobim (Sivuca) - Baião / Ijexá
Session 5 of the Online Guitar Choro Club is coming up on Saturday, October 17, live on Zoom.
This month we step into two other great Brazilian rhythms, Baião and Ijexá, with one tune: "Um Tom Para Jobim" by Sivuca and Oswaldinho do Acordeon.
SPECIAL GUEST: ANAT COHEN Brooklyn-based clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen joins us for a live Q&A after the tune. Known around the world for her expressive virtuosity and magnetic stage presence, she is a soloist, bandleader, composer and collaborator, and an educator and ambassador for the music, with acclaimed albums, sold-out world tours, and profiles on NPR's Fresh Air and in The New York Times. Jazz journalist Nat Hentoff wrote that "she tells stories from her own experiences" that connect listeners to their own dreams and longings.
Anat has also recorded Brazilian music with 7-string guitarist Marcello Gonçalves, our Session 4 guest, including the duo albums Reconvexo and Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos.
THE TWO RHYTHMS
Baião: rooted in the rural Northeast of Brazil and given its definitive shape in the 1940s by Luiz Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira.
Ijexá: a sacred rhythm of Candomblé that became the groove of the Afoxé street processions, and was popularized in the 1970s through songs by Gilberto Gil, Dorival Caymmi and Caetano Veloso.
We will work through both grooves on the guitar and see how the tune moves between them.
WHAT YOU GET
A 47-page PDF study package: the two rhythms, basic accompaniment, harmonic analysis, melody (plus a lower-octave version for 7-string guitar), 6- and 7-string accompaniment, a melody + accompaniment arrangement for two guitars, and Bb and Eb transpositions
A play-along practice tool on our website: accompaniment and melody tracks at 60%, 80% and full speed
The recording of the session, for anyone who cannot attend live
WHO IT'S FOR All levels. All instruments: the Bb and Eb parts are there for clarinet, sax, trumpet and more.
WHEN Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 1:00 PM Brasília time (about 9 AM Pacific · 12 PM Eastern · 5 PM London · 6 PM Vienna · 7 PM Tel Aviv) Two hours: about 90 minutes on the tune, then a 30-minute Q&A with Anat.
Hosted by Douglas Lora. Monthly · Live Zoom · All levels · PDF scores included