Learn All About Riff Blues!
Follow along as Gary shows what makes a riff blues and how to compose your own!
Month: April 2019
6 Great Piano Blues Licks
Here you’ll find 6 great licks that you can use in your blues playing right away to spice up your sound. Let’s go to the Piano Blues Resource Kit and the page headed Blues Riffs and Licks
9 Essential Left Hand Boogie Patterns
This video will focus on LH boogie patterns. Boogie patterns are repetitive LH rhythmic patterns used throughout the 12-bar blues form. Let’s go to the Piano Blues Resource Kit and the page headed LH Boogie Patterns to follow along.
Piano Blues – “Melody”
To create blues melodies and to improvise we use the notes from what’s called the blues scale. This lesson shows you how to build a blues scale and use it in your music.
Piano Blues -“Harmony”
This video will focus on harmony, ie: the chords used to play the blues.
Piano Blues – “Form”
Every piece we play has a form. A shape. A beginning a middle and an end. In the case of the blues there are several common forms but the one I’ll deal with on this video is the 12-bar blues.