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Bossa nova is a beautiful genre of the music of Brazil. It was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s, and is still today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres. The phrase bossa nova means literally "new trend" or "new wave". Bossa nova is most commonly performed on the guitar. Actually quite frequently on nylon-string classical guitar, played with the fingers rather than with a pick. There is almost always a guitar that plays the underlying rhythm.
Many of the composers and troubadours of Brazilian music basically took one of the several rhythmic layers from the samba ensemble - specifically the tamborim! They then applied it to the picking hand. Through the years, they developed a new way of playing the guitar. The clave pattern of the bossa nova sounds very similar to the two-three or three-two son clave of Cuban music. Bossa nova has at its core a rhythm based on samba. Samba combines the rhythmic patterns and feel originating in former African slave communities. Nowadays, it's played in many different ways.
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