I understand that I need to learn these pieces in order to progress but I also want to learn to play some pieces that I can enjoy playing. Ive been taking piano lessons for around a year and the pieces Im learning are still quite dull (e.g.Īmazing Grace). Ill show you the blues scale early on, giving you everything you need to start improvising and well progress to advanced licks and an impressive tutorial song to consolidate your new skills.įinally, well move onto some popular blues songs, including music by the great Jerry Lee Lewis and my own personal favourite, Ray Charles. The end result will be far more attainable if you are able to play something correctly most of the time, rather than making speed your priority.Īs you progress through the course, youll learn left hands, right hands, bridges and endings which youll use together to make your own blues piano compositions. Take things one step at a time and realise that learning to play boogie woogie piano requires a lot of patience and accuracy.
This is definitely the better option of the two, and far more satisfying than playing something at the correct speed but making a mess of it. When one of my students tells me at the start of the lesson that they have struggled with a particular song or exercise, I usually smile with the knowledge that they will be fine come the end of the lesson. Ive put the chord categorisation over the top of each bar so you can see how this looks. This means that we use the 1 st, 4 th and 5 th noteschords from the C scale, which is often how the blues and boogie woogie is played.įinally, we use the G chord for bar 9, the F chord for bar 10, and to finish we use the C chord for bars 11-12. More often than not you can play a left hand boogie at any pace and it will find its place within a song however this Jools Holland left hand must be played fast in order for it to work.Ī 12 bar blues progression in the key of C typically uses just three chords C, F and G. The shelves are still filled with classical, pop and rock, and when you do get your hands on a piano blues or boogie woogie book youll often find that the left hands are not the same as what you hear.
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