Updated Aug. 5, 2021.
Hello to all blues piano students!
Here’s a downloadable PDF file of sheet music covering Blues Piano Lick #10, for optional use with my course “A Study in Blues Piano” (all on this site).
This sheet is part of a supplemental collection I’m putting together, in response to recent requests.
Cheers!
VIDEO LESSON ~~ JAZZ IMPROV TUTORIAL ~~ JAZZ EXERCISES
As a result, the repeated act of mindfully (and not mindlessly) practicing this drill can increase your general facility with approach tones, as well as give you (possibly new) theoretical insights regarding chord-scale relationships.
UPDATED: July 20, 2021.
I’ve had lots of happy feedback about this lesson, ever since I first posted it on YouTube. People are basically saying that this is the easiest way they have found to learn the notes of all twelve major scales, quickly and painlessly. I learned about tetrachords in my college theory classes, and I have found them to be a little-known “secret” for organizing one’s thoughts about scales and modes. Let me know what you think!
A video blues tutorial describing a versatile lick pattern for jazz and blues piano.
This short jazzy series of chromatic notes, which I call the Flat-3 to 5, is a familiar expression in the Blues. This easy type of lick (you can alter the lick very easily) is heard in a trillion mainstream jazz and blues melodies, as well as in all related music, anything that has even a touch of Blues Inflection.
Which means, you could call this a cliché.
In the Blues, an improvising (lead) player might belt out a cliché, or ten, to explicitly let listeners know where they are: “You are in the Blues, thank you very much!” Any time you venture off into highly original blues territory, a cliché is a great place to come home to!
LESSON #7 – VIDEO TUTORIAL
Today’s post is taken from an online exchange between a YouTube follower of mine, and myself, regarding a question he had posted on one of my YouTube tutorials. The topic of discussion here is playing certain difficult chord-shapes on piano…
Continue reading How to Play Difficult Chords on Piano or Keyboards
How to Read Piano Music – Step One: Naming the Piano Keys
Here’s a musical overview of your piano keyboard, along with helpful hints for remembering the letter-note/note-names of the keys!
VIDEO
Continue reading How to Find Your Way Across the Piano Keyboard Landscape
Bagatelle No. 25 in A-Minor ~ Ludwig v. Beethoven
Here’s the clickable product listing with images and descriptions:
Ludwig v. Beethoven’s timeless and extremely popular piano piece, Für Elise, officially named ‘Bagatelle No. 25,” in A-Minor, has been well-loved and well-known across the world for more than two centuries. Beethoven’s music, especially his later works, ushered in the Romantic Era of western classical music.
QUICK LINKS TO MORE BEETHOVEN SHEETS
Moonlight Sonata Package – All three movements at a reduced price – Letter-note labels included
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata – Entire 1st Movement – Letter-note labels included
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata – Entire 2nd Movement – Letter-note labels included
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata – Entire 3rd Movement – Letter-note labels included
Good day!
Today’s post is about using the first four notes of a blues scale as a moveable pattern, with many ear-catching possibilities that can fire up your solos in unexpected ways.
This “rock-bottom four” pattern, starting on any given note, can produce a wide variety of bluesy, funky, and jazzy sounds, when used in a context of your careful choosing, guided by your ear as the final judge.
This is a slide show, which is a common format that I use on my Instagram page, @piano_w_kent.
I have discovered that these types of posts seem to work well on my Instagram page, so I’m going to start featuring these here, too.
TODAY’S REMAINING SLIDES:
Continue reading Jazz/Rock/Blues Soloing Tip: Using the ‘Rock-Bottom Four’ of the Blues Scale
Claude Debussy’s timeless and extremely popular piano piece, Clair de Lune, is well-known around the world. Its origins includeperson influences from poetry, the music of Bach’s time (the Baroque period), and the artistic school of Impressionism.
Is ‘Clair’ of Clair de Lune a person’s name? If so, who is that person?
The ‘Clair’ in the title Clair de Lune does not refer to a person.
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