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 →
A Piano Blues Riff You Can Play At Any Speed You Choose Here is a blues riff you can play at any tempo – slow or fast – part or complete. Good morning, this is Duane. It may be afternoon … Continue reading →
Do All Musicians Agree On The Blues Scale? Good morning. This is Duane. We’ve been doing a series on music theory called “Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know About Music!” Today I’d like to take up a hybrid blues … 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 →
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 →
The chord structure of the blues is basically the same as the chord structure of songs that use the primary chords.
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 →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 →
