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One choro.
Every month.

A worldwide community of guitarists gathering on Zoom to learn one choro together — with scores, analysis, and live guidance from Douglas Lora.

For all levels PDF scores included $20 suggested donation
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✦ Session No. 3 — August 1, 2026

Displicente
Pixinguinha e Benedito Lacerda
Samba-Choro · 42-page PDF study package included

A joyful samba-choro blending two rhythmic worlds. This session introduces Bb & Eb transposed parts for the first time, and runs a full 2 hours — 90 minutes on the tune plus 30 minutes live with a special guest.

Date
Saturday, August 1
2026
Time
1:00 PM BRT
2-hour session · 90 min tune + 30 min guest Q&A
Your timezone
9 AM LA 12 PM NY 5 PM London 6 PM Berlin 7 PM Tel Aviv 1 AM+1 Tokyo 2 AM+1 Sydney
Special guest
Pablo Fagundes — Q&A
Spots
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✦ Session 1 recap — June 6, 2026

Seu Lourenço no Vinho
Pixinguinha

Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho (1897–1973)

46
Guitarists
6
Countries
3
Continents
🌊
Bora Bora

Where we gathered

🇺🇸 Seattle · Los Angeles · Chicago · Nashville · Phoenix · Miami · Austin · NYC · Portland · Corvallis · Spokane · Sandy UT · Carmel · Hood River
🇫🇷 Marseille · Nantes  ·  🇩🇪 Weimar  ·  🇦🇹 Vienna  ·  🇮🇱 Tel Aviv  ·  🌊 Bora Bora

✦ How it works

Simple. Monthly. Joyful.

01
Register & donate

Sign up via Luma with a suggested donation of $20. Access and materials are confirmed immediately.

02
Receive your PDF

A comprehensive study package lands in your inbox — scores, analysis, fingerings, bass lines, and historical context.

03
Join on Zoom

Every first Saturday of the month at 1 PM BRT. Douglas guides the group through the choro live, with Q&A.

04
Come back next month

A new choro, a new PDF, a new session. The repertoire grows. So does the community.

✦ What you'll receive

42-page PDF package
for Displicente.

Introduction to Samba
Basic Accompaniment I & II
Harmonic Analysis
Melody + Lower Octave (7-str)
Accompaniment — 6-string
Accompaniment — 7-string
Accompaniment — Two Guitars
✦ NEW — Bb Instruments (Melody & Accomp.)
✦ NEW — Eb Instruments (Melody & Accomp.)
Pablo Fagundes

✦ Special guest — live Q&A

Pablo Fagundes

Pablo Fagundes is a Brazilian harmonica virtuoso, composer, and cultural curator with more than 20 years of career, 11 recorded albums, and performances across Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and the Americas. In 2025 he was honored by the Belgian Embassy as "Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Couronne" for keeping alive the harmonica tradition of Toots Thielemans, and in 2024 he received the Cubadisco International Award for Best International Instrumental Album. He is the founder of Som Lá em Casa, a decade-long concert series in Brasília, and has appeared as soloist with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

✦ Your host

Douglas
Lora
Guitarist · Educator · Composer
  • 3× Grammy-nominated guitarist
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ)
  • Trio Brasileiro
  • Professor, Cal State Fullerton
  • Artistic Director, Choro Northwest

Douglas Lora has spent decades at the intersection of classical guitar and Brazilian music — performing choro, samba, bossa nova and MPB on stages worldwide alongside artists like Yo-Yo Ma and Paquito d'Rivera.


The Online Guitar Choro Club is his invitation to guitarists everywhere to explore this rich, joyful tradition together — one piece at a time, every month, live.


"Choro is best when shared. This club is proof."

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