Fado Menor: Portuguese Guitar Lesson 2
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2008
- Ron Fernandez shows how to play a Fado Menor
on Portuguese Guitar and Spanish Guitar. The Portuguese guitar part is an authentic Fado Menor as played in the early 20th century. The music for the Portuguese part in this video is written out in notation and tablature at: www.fernandezmusic.com where there is an introductory lesson for playing the Lisbon Fado Guitarra.
The Portuguese Guitar was made by Manuel Cardoso in Odivelas, Portugal in 1982.. The Spanish Guitar was made by Felix Manzanero In Madrid, Spain in 1999. - Hudba
Reminds of my grandparents from the Azores... Singing the Fado and Chamarita..
Thank you for this. I'm first-generation Portuguese living in Santa Ana, CA and I sat down outside my apartment listening to your clip and I really enjoy it. I miss Portugal so much. Wish I could go back.
Did you ever return to Portugal?
@@speakeuropeanportuguese Not permanently, but I do visit for a week or two, once a year.
I live in Canada this brings back memories of Acores where I was born thanks.
Hi Ron, You deserve great credit for allowing us all to share in the techniques of this beautiful music. I have been learning instrumental 'guitarradas' for over two years now and had been intending to start learning a little fado...these clips have come at just the right time!! Muito obrigado.
Alan, UK.
Thank you, Civ 6, for introducing me to all this amazing music!
Muito lindo Hernandez you really are de best one
Hey Ronaldo!
Have been learning this Fado since this summer when I finally got my hands on a production model Lisbon guitar. Yes yes, production model... I'm actually an electric guitarist wanting to play Fado for a long time now. Thanks for hosting the website and posting these vids!
Patrick,
Roterdao, Holanda
thanks for all the work you put into making this, it came out really great!
I never heard of portuguese guitar before, it sounds great and it looks lovely!
Bravo! Please continue with these incredible lessons.
Dwayne P , oh my goan friend, if you want to learn portuguese guitarra, i can teach you. you pay nothing. It,s totally free.
Bom Dia !!Im an American and I fell in love with this music visiting Porto to see Prem Rawat. Thanks
That's great Ron. Really enjoyed watching you play this in person :)
I just wanted to take the time to thank you for putting up this video as well as your website! My grandfather just returned from Portugal and brought me back a guitarra. I figured since I play standard guitar it shouldn't be all that much more complicated... Needless to say I was wrong lol. I was so discouraged when I couldn't find anything online pertaining to this instrument untill I came across your website. I just finished learning your video version of the fado and played it for my family
Muito obrigado !
Sempre gostei do som destas guitaras :)
I want one of these so bad. I don't care about having some kind of lessons. I just listen, watch the video, and learn how to play it. Just like they learned. By watching and listening.
In the 70's I played with Artur Gaipo in Montreal Canada. Gaipo was born in the Azores. He was a professional guitarist in Lisbon in the 50's. I also played with Germano Rocha from Coimbra. In Vancouver I studied with Jose Amaral. In Portugal I had a few lessons with Carlos Gonçalves (Amalia's guitarist) and Luis Penedo, President of the Academia da Guitarra Portuguesa e do Fado. I have been to Portugal many times. in 1974 I attended a summer course at Coimbra University.
Linda música de fado. Meu irmão joga como nenhum outro.
Linda cancao saudacoes brasileiras
beautiful
Vraiment magnifique!
Ron Please smile, you play so well!!
Hi Cedric. Thanks for your comment. The day I was video taping this segment I had to handle the camera, read the sheet music, play perfectly in time so I could then play the Spanish guitar part and sync with the Portuguese guitarra. It was difficult to do these and not make mistakes playing. You can see me more relaxed on the local TV program, Let it Shine which is on CZcams.
@SpiritPedro Thank you for your comment. I will not have any lessons soon. I am researching old guitarra and fado music. There are complications with copyrights which prevent me from showing more modern fados. I have been hoping that my lessons (from a Gallego-Spanish-Polish American guy in California) would motivate players in Continental Portugal to post detailed lesson.
so cool!!!
Hi,Amalia and Paredes fan here!Gorgeous music!
In Azores I had the opportunity to go to fado festivals with both Lisboa and Coimbra style.
The Lisboa sounds more"authentic"to my ears,but,ok,the Coimbra teachers I met were very nice interesting and friendly,just like all portuguese people in Azores!
I bought unhas in music shops but can t find them now on the net,they were much better than the ones I make from your video(my fault,too lazy to do it properly!!).
Cheers from french Pacific!
magnifique
Great! Thank you for the lesson!
Where can we find other nice and easy pieces like this for solo Portuguese guitar?
I thank you for your compliment.
This coming year I will publish some old and new variations for the guitarra. I should mention also that I have just received a new introductory Fado guitar method with CD from Portugal by Cebolo. It will be on my Fernandez Music web site in a few days.
You could sing Uma Casa Portuguesa and then change the words to Uma Casa Açoreana. Or just play this well-know melody.
I was born in New Jersey. My father is from Galicia, Spain. I have lived in Canada, Spain and Portugal. i have played classical and flamenco guitar since the 60's. I have been involved with Portuguese Fado since 1971. For decades I have imported and repaired fretted instruments as Fernandez Music.
Thank you for your comment.
I should mention here that the Fado Menor is a musical form which serves as the background for singing fado poetry, it does not have a specific melody. The singer improvises the melody. The musicians play a measure of the Tonic chord, 2 measures of the Dominant 7 and then the Tonic chord again. There is a characteristic arpeggio pattern which the Portuguese guitar plays. There are standard ornamentations which the musicians play but they are free to create new ones.
Nice...!
The music and tablature for this Fado and several others are written out on my website at: www.fernandezmusic.com/PortuguesemethodContents.html
@mdcorreia
Hi Manuel. The Fado Menor is in minor key and the Fado Maior (which some call Fado Corrido) is in major key; the Fado Menor is usually slower. These 2 forms have similar structures: usually 4 sections: the 1st is tonic, the 2nd and 3rd are dominate 7 and the last is tonic. This is a simply structure for accompanying fado poetry. These forms do not have set melodies--the melodies are improvised. The guitarist plays contracantes between the vocal segments.
Hi Ron,
Thats great music. I would like to see you give us a lesson with your manzanero flamenco guitar.Some flamenco techniques or a piece of your liking...
There is a detailed lesson (for free) on how to play the Portuguese Guitar, with Lisboa tuning, string gauges and full transcription of this piece on my Fernandez Music website. I cannot give you my website address in a CZcams
message. You can easily find it by doing a web search.
I learned the Portuguese Guitar part on Mandolin.
Good job. This music can sound good on mandolin. I have a book of fados written for mandolin from before 1920.
@@FernandezMusic They happen to be Portuguese Guitar fados transcribed for Mandolin. I decided to play this piece in the Original key of F minor by putting a Capo on the 3rd Fret so I could emulate the older Soprano Lisboa Tuning (FCDGCD). There's also the Guitolao which is a Tenor Portuguese Guitar tuned GDEADE, but you could tune it down a step to FCDGCD & play in the Original F Key.
Very sweet sounding Portuguese guitar. Yes, definitely quite a different sound from the Classic guitar. Both are beautiful but they would be better suited to different musical styles. The Portuguese guitar sounds more nostalgically European sweetly folky... The Classic guitar sounds more robust. I could imagine wild, very rhythmic Spanish flamenco sounding quite right on a Portuguese guitar which sounds as if it would be great for solo playing of folk music or to accompany singers. Very nice. Well crafted instrument. Would take a lot of skill to produce such a fine instrument.
Annemarie, the guitarra portuguesa is a type of cittern which is centuries old in Europe. Some related
instruments are the 18th century English Guittar, the
the 16th century Italian cittern, the 19th century German Waldzither, the modern Brazilian Bandolim.
Hello
This is very inspiring. I live in London, also a second generation Portuguese immigrant (via France!). I have a passion for Fado and would like to start to learn to play Portuguese guitar. Does anyone know of a school, or teacher based in London? Thank you.
See my Fernandez Music website. I have many Portuguese Guitarras for sale. The guitarra in this Fado Menor video is my personal instrument from Manuel Cardoso made in 1980, it is not for sale. It has a 440mm string length and it is tuned dD aA bB ee aa bb (lowest to highest note). If you look at my 2 videos on Making Fingerpicks for Portuguese guitar you will see one of guitarras I have for sale. It is a Lisboa style 440mm scale guitarra-- with a case and string winder they start around $900.
Very nice playing! I am stuck in what is fado menor! I am thinking that it is slower than corrido and in a minor key but with the same structure. Maior would be all the same but in a major key. I am partly correct?
Thanks in advance for some help. Manuel Correia
Класс!
PORTUGAL!
grandes videos sim senhor!
Thank you for the nice comment. At some point i intend to contribute to flamenco guitar videos on construction, playing or theory. However, for the next 18 months I am focusing on Portuguese guitarra research and preparing for a permanent move to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Can anyone recommend a guitar store in Lisbon, near the big train staion? Thanks.
You will have to learn a different way to position your right hand and a different technique for the index finger, called dedilho. The dedilho is explained/shown in my free internet lesson on my Fernandez Music web page. You will have to learn the note and chord positions for the left hand. There is a new book and CD by Cebolo on my web page for learning Fado guitarra.
I’ve just acquired one of those Lisboa Fado guitars. I’m having a problem with my thumb and finger plucking the double sets of strings.
Study your hand carefully to see how the finger picks are (unhas) are crossing the string. Try to do it many ways. When you find the sound you like then practice that very Sloooooowly.
Both the notation and the tablature (tabs) are on my website in the free internet lesson entitled Playing the Portuguese Guitarra (Lisbon Style). Go to my website which is shown at the beginning of my CZcams video, on the Home page go down to the section "Portuguese Guitars to find the lesson. The Fado Menor in the video is on page 5 of the lesson.
@jclaussftw Thank you for your nice comment and give another treat to Carl for me.
@mysteryjesus I have several Portuguese guitarras for sale on my Fernandez Music website.
I cannot write the URL for my website into this answer because CZcams apparently does not allow mentioning specific websites. You can find my webpage on Google by looking under Fernandez Music. When you find the home page go down to the section entitled "Portuguese Guitars and Fado" thengo to "Playing the Portuguese Guitarra (Lisbon Style), then go through the lesson until you get to page 5. which has the Fado menor tablature. Page 6 has the tablature for Fado maior
While It is true that the English Guitar had some influence on the design on the Portuguese guitarra in the 19th century, it is appears that the Portuguese had their own 12 string cittern before the importation of the English instrument. Pedro Caldeira Cabral's 400 page book, A Guitarra Portuguesa, tells about the predecessors of the guitarra portuguesa. It is unfortunate that the literature in English usually repeats the mistake that the guitarra portuguesa was simply imported from England.
I must have one of these! Where would I find one like this please?
upmagazine-tap.com/pt_artigos/guitarra-portuguesa-reinventada/
Contact me on my website Fernandez Music.
The Portuguese guitar can also be tuned beadf#b (like a Baritone Guitar but an Octave Higher) so you can strum it like a Standard Guitar & play familiar songs like "Here Comes the Sun" or this one:czcams.com/video/c2ck9WJIdi8/video.html
Thank you for your comment. There are also old 18th century English Guittar (notice the 2 T's) tunings. The "English" Guittar was played in Colonial America. Supposedly Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Ben Franklin had such instruments in their houses. It was tuned CEGceg or GBDgbd.
I should noted that in the last 2 years I have added a number of transcriptions of Portuguese Guitar fado and variations on my website:
www.fernandezmusic.com/PortuguesemethodContents.html
There are transcriptions of nice pieces by Reynaldo Varella and Joao Victoria as well as an early 19th century Fado do Marinheiro and a Minuete Da Saudade from 1796.
@@FernandezMusic GBDGBD is Dobro Tuning, CEGCEG is Quart Dobro Tuning as if it's a Dobro w/ a Capo on the 5th Fret. BEADF#B is also great for singer-songwriters so you could use familiar Guitar chord shapes.
The tuning is not difficult if you have a electronic chromatic tuner which is like a guitar tuner but has all of the sharps and flats of the complete scale whereas a guitar tuner only has EADGBE. The traditional Portuguese guitarra tuners work very well and keep the strings in tune. Making loops at the end of the strings so they can be attached to the guitarra is a bit more difficult. I am working on a video which will show how to string up a Portuguese guitarra.
Sr Fernandes - achei recentemente, depois de procurar informacao de "copyrights" etc. e ouvir fados (que nunca os tinha ouvido ) que pode haver 'dezenas de modos de acompanhamentos TUDO (melodia e acordes) baseado na estractura do fado Castico tonica e septima qual NAO TEM COPYRIGHTS! Vem a ser o mesmo com fado corrido - so e' mais rapido.
Basta dar uma variaco simples (uma improvisao) na melodia e acompamhamento e dai podem nascer centenas de fados e nada parecido com obras ja' regitadas!
You learn the portuguese guitar here in portugal right?
I wonder what blues would sound like on this.
It would sound good. I play Summertime on it at home. I also play flamenco falsetas and some Bach. Fapy Lafertin in France who plays Django Reinhardt style guitar has recordings of some of his music on the Portuguese Guitar with the original tuning (he told me in an email that he uses traditional tuning).
@@FernandezMusic I've tuned to open D and played slide blues and it was fun!
@sillykidssong Now, here is the real answer. In order to do a good quality video I had to redo each section dozens of times. It may appears to the causal viewer that I just sat down and performed but that is not the case. I did the video over several days. Likewise the 2 videos on making fingerpicks took me 4 weeks to do. My wife sends your greetings.
A diferencia principal é a guitarra de Lisboa tem escala de 440mm e a guitarra de Coimbra é 470mm. Normalmente a Lisboa está afinado re la, si mi la si mais a Coimbra está afinado do, sol la re sol la. [The Portuguese comment was: Okay thanks...Could you tell me which are the differences between the Coimbra guitarra and the Portuguese Guitarra.
A guitarra portuguesa não é afinada por quartas. A afinada para a guitarra de Lisboa é
re, la, si, mi, la, si desde as sextas cordas ate as primeiras cordas.
The question in Portuguese was: Is the Portuguese Guitar tuned in 4ths? Or does it have a specific tuning? My answer was: The Portuguese Guitarra is not tuned in 4ths. The tuning for the guitarra of Lisbon is d, a, b, e, a, b from the 6th course to the 1st course of strings. From Ron Fernandez
zeer toevallig dat ik je comment tegen kom en je profiel bekijk. We hebben een keer samen gespeeld in de oefenruimte met Pepijn van de Kamp. Dat was toen met Facewreck. Tof dat je ook van Fado houdt.
later,
Hugo
what are the note names of all the strings on the guitar and can you tune the instrument to 440 also can I tune it to concert A or do I have to do it to a different note?
There is 20 page free lesson on my Fernandez Music website. It explains the tuning for the Portuguese Guitar, both Lisbon and Coimbra tuning. And, this piece of music is written out in both notation and tablature.
B A E B A D
What video editing software did you use? How did you synch two separate guitar playings? Information about what hardware you used would be very helpful!
I used Final Cut Pro. I recorded one part with my video camera, downloaded it to my iMac computer, play the footage back and played along with it as I video taped the second play. Then in FCP I stacked the 2 videos until they were synched. I used a mask
to insert the small circled video onto the larger one.
This is all straight forward with Final Cut Pro.
FernandezMusic Thanks a lot! That’s very helpful! So, you did not use any separate microphone, right? You just used the microphone on your camera I’m guessing, is that right?
Also what camera was it?
@@joyontogomes I made this video 11 years ago so I am not sure about the technical facts. However, I always used microphones 2 or 3 feet from the guitar because they are always superior to the in camera microphone. More recently I have used a projection mike (ECM-XM1) on my Sony HXR--NX30U for most situations. Even on much cheaper cameras an inexpensive mike close to the sound source will improve fidelity tremendously.
I have extensive information on my website about Portuguese guitars for sale, a free internet lesson, a book of chords for guitarra and 7 fado music books.
You will have to look up my website on Google because CZcams will not allow the posting of a URL.
How does it take you to tune it? compared to a 12 string guitar? Is it harder?
@FernandezMusic - yeah, your wife is right. I have too much time on my hands. But you can't fault me for being observant. Peace be with you.
search here in youtube for "Alfredo marceneiro e Fernando farinha (antes e depois)" if you people want to hear fado menor singed
@sillykidssong
The guy with the shorter hair was my twin brother from the Bizarro Universe. I told my wife about your comment and she said, " Some people just have too much time on their hands." So, silly kid do you now have a sensible comment for the rest of the adults?
how is it tuned?
James Cascao , B A E B A D, starting from thin to thiker strings.
I guess it depends on your background - for a Brazilian this sounds reminiscent of choro, an Argentinian could say it sounds like tango.
how much is a Portuguese Guitar? because i am wanting to learn how to play guitar and i would rather learn how to play a Portuguese guitar rather then a normal one because i am Portuguese and i want to play my Avo something beautiful
if u like it try listen Carlos Paredes, the best portuguese guitar player ;)
@ItinerateWolfMop Well, according to a very quick research, both instruments may be remotely related.
I saw the chords from other sources being G minor and D major. In this video it's D minor A7. Does not make any sense...
The chords are shown on Spanish Guitar from 3:25 in the video. There is a mistake at 4:11 where I wrote Eb as the chord when it is still Dm. At 4:20 there is a Eb chord. This variation is a bit more elaborate then traditional Fado Menor which can be played with 2 chords in the key of Dm, the Tonic (Dm) and the Dominate 7 (A7).
thank you so much.
G minor to D Major, and D minor to A7, have the same chord relationships, but are in different keys. I minor, to five major or 7 (interchangeable), but yes what the guy above me said is also true
can you send me the tabs
Ola. Are you involved in playing Portuguese music? There is a Portuguese association in Artesia which has an active program with Portuguese and Azorean folk music. live in Irvine and I teach and sell Portuguese guitarras. I have a free lesson how to play Fado menor and Fado maior on my Fernandez Music website. Ron
How do you tune this instrument?
yoheff988 I explain how to tune both the Lisbon and Coimbra Portuguese Guitarras in my Free internet lesson which is on the Fernandez Music website. At that place there is a complete lesson on how to play this Fado Menor with notation and tablature.
Hey ja lachen man hahaha! Zal Pepijn de groeten doen. Peace!
How about ten euros then?
Came here from Civ 6
I don’t understand what you mean to say.
@@FernandezMusic Civilization 6 is a video game where you play as different civilizations. You can play as Portugal, and Portugal uses Fado Menor as music.
Thank you for the answer.
@@FernandezMusic It is no problem Sir
That's actually false. English guitar (english cittern) was never the ancestor of the Portuguese guitar. They're close relatives, with the same ancestor: European Renascentist Cittern.
The only thing that the Portuguese guitar "borrowed" from the English one was the tuning system, that was later modified and improved.
It was originally an English instrument I believe? I will accept back royalties of one million pounds on behalf of the English people.