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Na Roda's primary offering is the one-on-one lesson. If there's an instrument and a style of Brazilian music you'd like to study, we can provide the teacher. Currently we feature instructors for half a dozen instrument families, and each instructor is steeped in more than one musical style. For more unusual requests, such as Viola Caipira, or for arrangements outside Rio, contact us for special arrangements.

Lessons are purchased in blocks of 3 hours, and can be arranged as you like: three 1-hour lessons ever other day, two 90-minute lessons, or one 3-hour session. Lessons can be located in the instructor's studio space or elsewhere upon special request.

   
 
 
Standard Instruments
 
Guitar
(violão, violão de sete cordas, guitarra, violão tenor)

staff: Luiz Brasil, Bilinho Teixeira, Ignez Perdigão
common styles: bossa nova, samba, pagode, choro, jazz, forró, MPB

 
Cavaquinho

staff: Ignez Perdigão
common styles: bossa nova, samba, pagode, choro, forró

 

Wind instruments
(saxophone, clarinet, flute)

staff: Marcelo Bernardes
common styles: bossa nova, samba, choro, jazz, MPB
 

Voice

staff: Felipe Abreu
common styles: bossa nova, samba, choro, jazz, forró , MPB
 

Piano/keyboards

 staff: Leandro Braga
common styles: bossa nova, samba, choro, jazz, forró , MPB
 

Percussion
(drumset, pandeiro, all samba bateria percussion
instruments, atabaque, berimbau, zabumba, tantan, moringa)

 staff: Marco Lobo, Orlando Costa
common styles: samba batucada, samba pagode, choro, jazz, forró
 
   
       
 

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