Manha de Carnival
Composer: Luis Bonfa
put here by: Doug Nickerson
This is movie and probably originally theater music. Featured in the nineteen sixties film Black Orpheus (English title). There was a story that A.C. Jobim was asked to do the project and somehow Luis Bonfa ended up writing it. Some vagaries of money were probably involved.
The title, which means 'Morning of Carnival,' sometimes is shown as Black Orpheus in English arrangements.
The "Coda" is merely a sort of vamp that can be repeated before the end, I transcribed the vamp, and the whole piece from the Luis Bonfa recording "Non-Stop to Brazil." Search on you tube for Bonfa and this song, there is a version with Mike Douglas singing, and one with Perry Como singing.
This sounds good the simpler the better. So the positions I've shown are common ones for chords such as Am, Cmaj7. Just play a garden-variety G7.
Others play Am and Dm as the vamp but hey.
Meter: 4/4 Tempo: fairly slowly
| Am | Bm7(b5) E7 | Am Am(#7) | Bm7(b5) E7 |
|Am | Dm G7 | CMaj7 | C# dim7 | Dm7 | G7 || Cmaj7 | Fmaj7| Bm7(b5) | E7 | Am | E7 |
| Am | Bm7(b5) E7 | Am | Bm7(b5) E7 |
|Emin7(b5) | A7 | Dmin Dmin(#7) | Dmin7 Dm6 |
| Dm Dm/C | Bm (Sus7) E7 | Am Am/G |
| Fmaj7 | Bm7(b5) | E7 | Am | E7 :||Coda: Am9 | G add9 | Amin9 | G (add 9)| Am9
Strings are from low to high, left to right: 6 5 4 3 2 1
Am - first position
6 5 4 3 2 1 - String numbers are low to high
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x 0 2 2 1 0 - Frets
Bmin7(b5)
6 5 4 3 2 1
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x 2 x 2 3 1
E7
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0 2 0 1 0 0
Bm (Sus7)
---------------
7 7 7 7 7 7
Cmaj7
---------------
x 3 2 0 0 0
Am (#7)
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x 0 2 1 1 0
A7
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x 0 2 0 2 0
FMa7
1 x 3 4 2 x
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1 x 2 2 1 x
C#dim7
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x 4 5 3 5 x
E7(b9) - can be played as an alternate for E7
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0 x 0 1 0 1
Dm
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x 0 0 2 3 1
Dm(#7)
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x 0 0 2 2 1
Dm7
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x 0 0 2 1 1
Coda:
Am9
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x 0 7 5 0 7
G(add 9)
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3 x 0 0 0 5