Recording
Chega de Saudade
João Gilberto
- Released
- 1958
- Label
- Odeon
- On one list
- Bossa Nova
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Analysis
4 sections, the first drop at 0:11, 9% of the way in, 37% of it spent climbing.
- Tempo
- 117.5 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 5.5 dB
- moderate range, typical of a modern master
- Length
- 2:03
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:13Bbuildbar 6
- 0:58Cpeakbar 28
- 1:51Boutrobar 54
Drop at 0:11 (bar 5). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:13
- Energy
- 74
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 93
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · sung · one of 2 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:45
- Energy
- 81
- Brightness
- 68
- Density
- 93
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · sung
- Lasts
- 0:53
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:13
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 74
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Bossa Nova
The record everyone agrees started it. Gilberto's guitar and voice sit so far back in the mix that the engineers thought something was wrong, and Brazilian music changed in two and a half minutes.