O contrabaixo elétrico no samba e no pagode contemporâneos: um estudo analítico sobre novas formas de se conduzir

Abstract

This paper work aims at presenting an analysis on how to play the electric bass while playing popular brazilian songs, its use and innovations, specifically inside the “samba” and “pagode” music styles. In developing this work, some musical arrangements and a performance by a bass player who became a reference in the current “pagode” and “samba” musical national mainstream, Boris “Bass” Farias, will be analyzed, by using recordings and transcriptions. This work presents and assesses some techniques used by Boris while playing the electric bass from traditional usage of this instrument on “pagode” style. In order to enhance our context, we will look at part of the “samba” and the “electric bass” history, as well as their usage while playing these musical styles. Moreover, some questions related to the instrument tone usage, and also the electric bass models currently used in the “pagode” style.