Description

Ever wanted to play the blues? Now's your chance with this 4 lesson mini-course on how to play the basic 12-bar blues for piano, complete with playalong backings tracks and a fun 12-bar blues performance piece called Jailbird Blues.

The video lessons come with 4 printable PDFs showing you the structure of the 12-bar blues, what notes to play for each chord, and 'lead sheets' (with chords and melody line) for Jailbird Blues.

Each video lesson features a playalong backing track with scrolling on-screen music to help you practice the ideas and techniques that we cover.

This mini-course will suit intermediate players at the Grade 2-3 (ABRSM) standard and upwards, and comes as a single PDF file with all the links you'll need to access the lesson videos, PDF downloads and backing tracks.

Course Content

Lesson 1: How to play the chords and understand the structure of the basic 12-bar blues.

Lesson 2: Learn how we can use chord INVERSIONS to streamline the blues chords and make them sound better.

Lesson 3: Discover how we can use different RHYTHM techniques to energise the blues chords.

Lesson 4: Putting it all together - chords, blues structure, inversions and rhythm. In this lesson, we learn a piece called Jailbird Blues and practise it with a downloadable MP3 backing track and printable PDF. You'll also get a bonus PDF download of Jailbird Blues with the more advanced 9th and 13th chords.

I hope you enjoy this mini-course on how to play the blues on the piano. Do let me know how you get on by leaving a review (click the link above), or feel free to ask any questions by getting in touch.

Wishing you a lot of fun with the blues!

Olly