Abstract
Brazilian music is a formidable mixture of rhythms and their variations, rhythms that we can play in a variety of instruments and forms, we often synthesize the rhythm of one or more instruments in just one accompanied instrument. When I decided to become a pianist, and also, to play Brazilian music, specifically speaking of Samba and Bossa Nova, I faced the challenge of putting all these instruments together. However, during my musical education process I have been in contact with some manuals that helped me to solve some problems in this regard. In this work, we compared these manuals, also addressing their content and specific aspects of them, giving the reader safe sources for researching these rhythms.