Want more dueling guitars? The 2007 hit film August Rush (about an 11-year-old guitar prodigy) not only featured pieces by Michael Hedges (“Ritual Dance,” played by Kaki King), Heitor also got in the mix, writing-in open-D5 tuning-the well-known “Dueling Guitars” duet (feat. Be sure to check the original soundtrack to hear how Heitor’s lilting 6/8 groove (steel-string) supports Doering’s tasty licks. In the Sean Penn–starring I Am Sam (2001), Heitor dueted with another legendary film-music guitarist, George Doering, the two contributing scads of acoustic and electric textures in pieces like “Sam’s Friends,” which informs FIGURE 2. FIGURE 1 illustrates a similar arpeggio pattern its descending chords utilize the same p-i-m-a-m picking, throughout. Heitor’s nylon-string flamenco touches propel “Nyah,” an uptempo fingerstyle workout in the Mission: Impossible 2 score, an early Pereira/Zimmer collaboration (2000). Let’s examine some of maestro Pereira’s unique acoustic guitar approaches. (For more info, check his appearance in the award-winning SCORE: A Film Music Documentary.)
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What makes Heitor a rare bird in this business is that he uses tons of guitars (and ukuleles, mandolins, Jonathan Wilson’s GuitarViols-every kind of stringed instrument imaginable, along with his own voice, percussion, piano, various synthesizers, loopers, etc.), even employing a MIDI pickup-equipped nine-string guitar, which covers the full range of the orchestra, to input MIDI data, which is then assigned to orchestral instruments. The guitarist has nested in the film score aviary ever since, recently composing for major animated pictures like Despicable Me, Angry Birds, Minions, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature and more.
When Heitor met legendary film composer Hans Zimmer, who needed Brazilian songs for the 1997 film As Good As It Gets, the film session and composing floodgates opened, and Heitor’s playing soon appeared in scores of such box office blockbusters as Gladiator and Blackhawk Down. He started playing guitar at age 14 and later immersed himself in classical music, studying composition and orchestration through friends (having just taken a boat to the U.S., the young musician had income issues) and later enrolled at Berklee College of Music. Hietor also studied privately with jazz guitar geniuses George Van Eps and Mick Goodrick.Īfter playing for many of Brazil’s leading artists, including Milton Nascimento, Heitor toured and recorded with British soul/pop sensations Simply Red (1988–96), then permanently moved to the U.S., launching a successful session career (Elton John, Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson, Bryan Adams) and issuing his acoustic-rich solo albums ( Untold Stories and Heitor TP). Heitor Pereira was born into a musical family in Brazil, wherein he was immersed in traditional samba and “Top 40”–type music from an early age. The Acoustic Stylings of Big-Screen Guitar Ace Heitor Pereira
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