It's amazingly similar. The structure of the traditional Choro band is to have no bass player. You traditionally have a guitar player playing chords, and another guitar player playing the seven-string guitar, and they play bass runs. These bass runs, they really remind me of the bluegrass bass runs that guitarists play. So, I'm really familiar with that.
Melody plays a line, and then there's a moment where the guitarist can fill.
It's all these ideas of counterpoint and running bass that are part of our musical tradition. It's really not that different. The sound is different, because it's warmer, with the nylon strings, but ultimately it has that same kind of tight rhythm that any great style of music has. It's with various other people playing this music, and myself on mandolin. It has Andy Navell on piano, another pianist, Joveno Santos Neto from Brazil, a couple of pieces with Edger Meyer on Bass, a piece with Bela Fleck, something with a Venezuelan Quatro player.