A Walk-Up Technique in a “Gospel” Style
A real easy way to create more motion in a song is through the use of “walk-ups”.
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Here’s a groovy little blues run you can use when playing the blues in F
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 →Improvising the blues: A video overview
The chord structure of the blues is basically the same as the chord structure of songs that use the primary chords.
Continue reading →How to play the piano even if you don’t know how to play the piano…
Easy jazz piano waltz using 3 chords
Continue reading →How To Play Piano in Quarter Steps For A Blues Sound
How To Play In The Cracks To Get a Blues Sound from chordman on Vimeo.
Continue reading →Watch this short video on the 12-bar blues…
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 →The Many Faces Of The 12-Bar Blues
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 →Mastering Blues Keyboard Riffs
From Billy Preston jamming with the Rolling Stones to Ray Charles kicking into “What I’d Say,” blues progressions and scales serve as the basis for legendary songs and amazing keyboard solos. One of the greatest aspects of blues keyboard riffs is the musical theory behind them, which is simple enough for beginners, yet still challenges virtuosos.
Continue reading →How to Play Blues Piano: Getting Started
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 →