Blues Piano For Beginners
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Once you have purchased this book, you can then email us to receive a FREE download of mp3 recordings for all of the music examples in the book. Most of the recordings include play-along tracks with a rhythm section, so you can have fun jamming along with the band!
Here is an overview of the sections contained in this book:
Section One - The Basic Blues Left Hand Pattern
Section Two - Adding Triads in the Right Hand
Section Three - The Twelve-Bar Blues Progression
Section Four - Using Triad Inversions
Section Five - Working With Four-Part Chords
Section Six - Varying the Left Hand Pattern
Section Seven - More Right and Left Hand Combinations
Section Eight - Improvising with the Tonic Blues Scale
Section Nine - Improvising with the Relative Minor Blues Scale
Section Ten - Combining Blues Scales and Adding Drone Notes
Mark Harrison is one of the highest-rated contemporary music educators and authors in the world today. His instruction books are endorsed by Keyboard Magazine, Jazz Times, and Performing Musician Magazine, and are used at numerous music colleges and universities. Mark's books have helped many thousands of musicians in over twenty countries worldwide.
Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison has a Bachelor's degree in Medieval Studies from Lancaster University. He is a Curator at the Royal Armouries, Tower of London and has a strong interest in the early medieval world. He lives in Colchester, UK.
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Blues Piano For Beginners - Mark Harrison
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Introduction
Welcome to Blues Piano For Beginners. This book will start you on the road to playing authentic blues piano, even if you are a complete beginner. You’ll get started right away by learning some essential left-hand and right-hand patterns to use on your first (or next) blues piano gig!
Please email us at books@harrisonmusic.com with Beginning Blues Audio
in the subject, to receive your FREE mp3 audio recordings of all the music examples in this book! Most of the audio recordings feature a rhythm section on the left channel, and the piano on the right channel. To play along with the band, turn down the right channel to eliminate the recorded piano. To hear the piano part for reference, turn down the left channel to eliminate the rhythm section.
Some eReaders will display the music notation in this book more clearly than others, so along with your free mp3s you will also receive pdf versions of all the music notation examples, as a backup for your use if needed.
Section One - The Basic Blues Left Hand Pattern
The foundation of a great blues piano performance is the strong and steady left hand pattern. Our first blues piano left hand pattern uses fifth and sixth intervals and a swing eighths
rhythmic feel, as follows:
Example 1
Here in the bass clef, C and G are played together during beats 1 and 3 of each measure, and C and A are played