John, Leon Russell, Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Otis Spann, Nicky Hopkins and many more! Now even you can learn how your favorite Blues keyboardists play, including Dr. Most users feel that this is the best Blues keyboard product that they have ever used. I think that’s an excellent addition to the book.Īll the 100 “riffs” are recorded with the piano right hand on the right channel, and the piano left hand on the left channel along with a drum track.
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To help you better learn (and use) these riffs, the book includes two completed songs that demonstrates how to combine many of these riffs to form a song. There are five sections broken down into: Basic Blues riffs. This best selling book, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs by Andrew Gordon is a comprehensive guide to some of the best musical phrases that make up blues piano / keyboard playing. Once you know to play the blues scale and the 12 bar Blues progression, you can further expand your skills by learning to play some interesting riffs in ‘Blues’.
So, if you compare it with major/minor scales, the Blues scale would look weird to a beginner. Then there are three notes, which are chromatic. Besides, the distance between the first two notes is one and a half step. The Blues scale is different from the major/minor scales in the sense that there are very few notes in this scale.
Once you are comfortable playing the beginner lessons and understand the major/minor scales pick up the blues scale for exploring. The Blues Scale is an important scale to learn once you have become comfortable with the Piano/Keyboard. Here’s a nice video that shows how to play Blues on Piano.
Use extra notes besides your main melody notes. Here’s a video showing how to play the 12 Bar Blues on Piano. You need to play chords in a specific order for 12 bars. You need to learn this scale! You may find it a bit awkward initially after having played the major / minor scales. You will need to incorporate them in your playing to make it sound bluesy! Here are some of the skills that you will need, if you want to know how to play blues Piano. Of course it needs to sound bluesy! Characteristics You already know the notes of the blues scale so as you maintain a steady beat with your left hand, just play some notes to form a melody.
You play the melody with your right hand of course you can play chords too but most of the time it is going to be melody. It is only the left hand, which is a problem. Not difficult! Most of us know what needs to be done with the right hand. As you become comfortable you can play the chord for every beat in the bar i.e. What about the beat? Initially, you can play the chord at the beginning of every bar and keep it pressed for the entire bar. So for C chord, you can use the 2 fingers to play the C notes which are one octave apart. Keep it simple! Play the octave notes with the left hand, using your first and fifth fingers. 12 bar blues is nothing but three chords played in a fixed order for 12 bars. The 12-bar blues is what you will need to learn initially when you start learning Blues Piano.
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