Left Hand 7th Chords – How To Voice Them When Playing The Blues In our video today we are going to cover left hand 7th chords that we use when playing the blues, jazz, R&B and several other types of … Continue reading →
Are Music Theory And The Blues Somehow Related? Good morning, this is Duane. Today, I’d like to talk about music theory and the blues. Music theory is behind all kinds of music because all kinds of music can be broken … Continue reading →
Minor Key Blues – How Is It Different Than Major Key Blues? Good morning, this is Duane. The last few videos we’ve been talking about the blues, the 12-bar blues that follows that format of 12 measures progressing to the … Continue reading →
Is there more than one blues scale? Here is a transcript of the video: Good morning, this Duane, and today I’d like to answer the question of a very intelligent young fellow about the blues scale. He was watching one … Continue reading →
Left-Hand Chord Voicing For The 12-Bar Blues Here is the transcript of the video: Good morning. This is Duane and a few days ago I made a video about the inside blues move where you position your hands with the … Continue reading →
The blues scale is a combination of a diatonic major scale plus the flat 3rd, flat 5th, and flat 7th of the scale
Continue reading →Here is a short video where I “fly over” the 12-bar blues to get an overall picture of what comprises the blues: For information on the blues, click here.
Continue reading →Piano players who desire to learn the foundations of purely American music should start with the 12-bar blues. This music form began over a century ago. Today’s jazz, hip-hop, rock-and-roll and rhythm and blues owes a debt to it.
Continue reading →When studying the piano, a student encounters a myriad piano styles. To master the instrument, at least several of these styles must be learned, and all if at all possible. Knowledge of various playing styles enables a pianist to enjoy and play in any genre and to cross-polinate styles to create a fusion he or she can call their own.
Continue reading →The ability to play blues piano is usually not expected of beginning pianists. There are reasons why most beginning pianists start out playing old songs written by classical composers from centuries past. Many songs written for the piano by such … Continue reading →
