A lot of traditional samba is actually written in cut time, but it's harder for Americans to read which is why you see a lot of 4.
You do however want to be able to feel the 2. There's nothing wrong with counting it in 4 especially since you're learning. Hey this I'd actually something that's pretty in my wheel house. After some more listening, I also noticed that even when counting 4/4 I would already accent the 1 and the 3 a bit, so it makes sense to just count it in 2/4. :) I'm definetely going to try to get used to counting this way. Is this something that goes away the more I do it? Are there any good resources explaining the 'grove'? How do I properly count (and feel) bossa nova? Any help is appreciated.ĮDIT: Thanks for all your answers. I have to actively make myself count in 2/4. If you would embelish the melody a bit you might get 32th notes.Īlso if I listen to bossa nova I always count in 4/4. Suddenly there are 16th notes even though the melody is the same. The 2/4 is the 'correct' way, but it seems much harder to count since you have to go '1 ah & ah 2 ah & ah' instead of '1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &'. Take for example this line here and here. To me it also seems a lot harder to read.
I'm not experienced enough to really be able to tell the difference though. Still, I couldn't find any arguments of why it is this way barring 'it feels different'.
It's seems so much easier to count 4 beats instead.įrom researching this online it seems true that samba is counted 2/4 in brazil and counting it 4/4 is more of a US thing. To be honest I'm having a lot of trouble reading music written this way and counting this way as well. As such, from a certain chapter on the music is now written in 2/4. I'm learning bossa nova right now and the book I'm learning in from states that bossa nova is tradiotionally counted in 2/4 and not 4/4.
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