Wave Chords

Wave with chords

Verse 1 of Wave with chords

Here are the chords you will need to know to play this first verse of Wave chords on guitar.

The chords you need to know are many. So I advise you to look for a while and practice these chords before you start playing.

When you master those chords, you can follow the next tab to play the verse 1 of this Bossa Nova :

Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.

Between verse 2 and bridge of Wave with tab

At the end of verse 2 of Wave (which is played as verse 1), to make a transition to the bridge, I use to play two different chords on guitar :

Bridge of Wave from Antonio Carlos Jobim with chords

Of the chords you have already learned for verse 1 of this Wave chords from Antonio Carlos Jobim, you will need only one : the Am. The others are new positions that you have to work on guitar :

When you have the chords ready, you can follow the next tab to play the bridge :

Play an other bossa nova tab like the famous How Insensitive.

Wave lyrics

Try to play in a jazz style the song All of me.

Wave history

Wave chords is a Bossa Nova song composed in 1967 by Brazilian Antônio Carlos Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim.

If Wave appears at first as a classic Bossa Nova song, sung by Jobim and Sergio Mendes, it quickly becomes a Jazz standard. In fact, already in 1969, less than two years after its release, the great Oscar Peterson recorded the song on his album Motions and Emotions. Ahmad Jamal, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz and Herbie Hancock would follow.

And if Wave quickly becomes a very famous jazz theme, it also follows its path as a song, sung by Franck Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald in English as well as by João Gilberto and Toquinho in Portuguese.