Description
Choro ensemble
Adriano Busko – percussion
Getulio Ribeiro – cavaquinho
Israel Bueno de Almeida – 7-string guitar
Italo Peron – 6-string guitar
Suggestion on how to use the accompaniment pack:
The accompaniment packs are basically a collection of audio tracks and music scores with an emphasis on a specific accompaniment instrument: cavaco, 6-string guitar or 7-string guitar.
For example, a cavaco pack contains:
- audio track with pandeiro, cavaco and solo instrument
- audio track with pandeiro and solo instrument
- the full audio track with all instruments
- audio track with all instruments except cavaco
- C score with bass transcription for the choro
We have added the complete transcription of the 6-string guitar realization in a score (numbered chords, chord voicing and rhythm patterns, conventions, etc) to the 6-string guitar pack. We have included the tablature (TAB) to the score in addition to the formal musical notation.
1) Listen to the full track, following the score(s) to get acquainted with the choro form, harmony, breaks, dynamics, rhythm, conventions, etc.
2) With the audio containing only pandeiro, your instrument and solo, dive into the execution specifics of the instrument by the master player of our original recording. Lower the tempo, loop difficult segments, etc, until you get it. The volume of the solo instrument has been slightly decreased, so you can clearly observe all the nuances of the original instrument performance.
3) Now play the instrument part yourself with the pandeiro and solo track.
4) When you feel you have it in your fingers, you can use the track with all instruments minus the instrument to have the full experience.
It is important to mention that you will always find the best choro musicians and choro ensembles from Brazil in our recordings. You can see the bio and picture of the base musicians on this page.
Israel Bueno de Almeida
Instrumentalist, arranger and composer Israel Bueno de Almeira was born in São Paulo and mainly performs with the oldest instrumental group in the city, “Izaias e seus Chorões.” Israel combines his experience in Brazilian popular music to his classical training in classical guitar he obtained at “Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo.” He appeared in recordings of about twenty LPs and CDs, as instrumentalist and arranger with the most important musicians of Brazil.
Italo Peron
Italo Peron, musical producer, violinist, arranger and composer, has been working since 1980 on his own projects as well as those of other artists, including Paulo Vanzolini, Francis Hime, Carlinhos Vergueiro, Diana Pequeno and Robert Miranda, among others. Peron’s projects involve the creation, arrangement and recording of jingles, soundtracks and albums, and he’s completed over 200 titles. In 2009 he served as musical director for the Brazilian documentary Um Homem de Moral (‘A man of morals’), about the composer Paulo Vanzolini.
Arnaldinho do Cavaco
Multi-instrumentalist (acoustic guitar, cavaquinho, 7-string guitar and mandolin), arranger and composer, he began his musical career participating in choro jams with his father and considers Luizinho 7-cordas from São Paulo to be the decisive character in his musical education. Gives guitar and cavaco lessons and organizes the traditional choro jam on Saturdays at Contemporânea Instrumentos in São Paulo.
Adriano Busko
Adriano Busko has been a percussionist since 1980. He studied drums and percussion with Master Dinho Gonçalves at the Paulista Academy of Music, where he was a student of Jose Eduardo Nazario. He holds a degree in Music from UNIMES Virtual. He has worked alongside Luiz Gonzaga, Geraldo Filme, Paulo Moura, Dominguinhos, Elton Medeiros, Emilinha Borba, Paulo Vanzolini, Renato Anesi, Pery Ribeiro, Maria Alcina, Carmen Costa, and Miltinho, among others.