Bossa rhythm in standard notation

Tele295

Yesterday I started working on Bossa Dorado - fun tune, and easier than I thought it would be. How is the rhythm for this notated? They sound like modified groups of 3 against 4s - quarter, eighth, dotted quarter?

dennis

they're just 8th notes

Tele295

dennis wrote:

they're just 8th notes

Even the rhythm? I can see how the melody is just eights, but it's got a certain swing to it. Perhaps it's just the Stochelo version that I'm listening to

dennis

yep, just plain even 8th notes, it really doesn't get more simple than that (but it's still hard to execute properly)

Tele295

Thanks Denis. I guess I have a tendancy to make things more difficult than they are.