O contrabaixo elétrico como instrumento harmônico na visão do músico Sérgio Pereira

Abstract

This work has as main objective to carry out a stylistic study of the musician Sérgio Pereira. I start showing the main characteristics of the electric bass, addressing its functions as an accompanying instrument and the creation of melodic lines. Then I look at the unusual way of playing it, as a harmonious role. In focus, the work of musician Sérgio Pereira, who uses the instrument in the foreground, filling spaces so that the listener does not miss an electric guitar, acoustic guitar or piano in an arrangement. The musician develops this technique recorded on a CD and DVD entitled Baixo e Voz Ao Vivo, in which only the instrument accompanies the voice. I will analyze the harmony and the line of the bass in two versions of the song Sapato Velho, being one of them the recording of the group Roupa Nova, of 1981, and the other of Sérgio Pereira in the Duo Baixo e Voz, of 2012.