Learn to Play Blues and Boogie Piano
Basic Level CD Rom 1
Section 1: Introduction
Hello and welcome to Learn to Play Blues and Boogie Piano Basic Level
CD Rom 1, with me, Daniel Smith. This CD Rom is designed to be viewed in print preview format
and it, and its accompanying 90-minute cassette, contain a whole range of ingredients and
components that you can pick, mix, skip to, pause at re-visit and adapt as you wish at your leisure.
You may wish to choose one or two left-hands from Sections 3 and 4 and then skip to Sections 5
onwards and right hands. I’d recommend taking notes of, or copying and pasting, different
‘components’ you want to put together all on one sheet.
Section 2: A Short Introduction to the 12 Bar Blues Format Used in 3-4
They both use the same 12 Bar Blues format in the key of C.
First, a quick check on notes:
C#
D#
or
or
Db
Eb
C
D
F#
or
Gb
E
F
# = ‘sharp’
G#
or
Ab
A#
or
Bb
G
A
C#
or
Db
B
C
b = ‘flat’
The basic 12 bar blues format used in the next two sections is (4 beats per bar):BAR 1
BAR 2
C
BAR 3
C
BAR 7
C
BAR 8
C
BAR 4
C
BAR 9
C
BAR 5
F
BAR 10
G
BAR 6
F
BAR 11
F
BAR 12
C
C
Simply playing the bass note or root note in the left hand one bar in C goes like this:
c
c
c
c
1
2
3
4
Beats
And a whole 12 goes like this in the left hand:Bar 1
Bar 2
Bar 3
Bar 4
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Beats
Bar 5
Bar 6
Bar 7
Bar 8
f
f
f
f
f
f
f
f
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Beats
Bar 9
Bar 10
Bar 11
Bar 12
g
g
g
g
f
f
f
f
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Beats
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