That is simply the best lesson I have seen on comping on YouTube and possibly the best music tuition video. I very much appreciate that you did not feel the need to show us how good you are. I have only ever seen female YouTube tutors achieve that

Excellent

gracias ! saludos desde argentina

2:55 the licks!

Thanks for a all the great content you produce. I would like to point a out a needed correction, though. Comping in Brazilian and Cuban styles are far from pre-planned or generic...  One can develop this perception from the fact that the main function of the guitar in a "traditional" Bossa ensemble, or the piano montunos in Cuban ensambles are responsible to keep the driving harmony/beat to the whole group, just like the double-bass in Jazz.  Though, compers in these styles play with, and look forward to, adding a plethora of subtle (or not so subtle) rhythmic variations to their accompaniments, exchanging ideas and interacting with the whole ensemble, and enriching every different rendition of a piece.  These variations are inherent to their African roots, they just are not highlighted in the melodic/harmonic foreground as in Jazz, but happen "in the kitchen" as we call the rhythmic section in Brazil... in the end, strictly, all is improvisation, but of different musical art forms. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bh8rorSk2M&pp=ygUVcmFmYWVsIGJhcmF0YSBiZXJrbGVl

Wow, Thanks that's a great explanation

Is comping itself basically learning how to feed off the soloist and make split second decisions on which chords to play to support the soloist?