Blues Piano Lesson: Blues Piano Lick 002

Second in Frank’s HUGE collection of killer blues piano licks to add to your bag… by ear, intellect, eye, and muscle…

Blues Piano Lick 002 (in the Key of C)

Four bars long, outlines the C Minor Blues Scale, leaves you hanging on Fa in the second bar, fully resolves to Do in bar four…

music notation for blues piano lick 002
(1/4 notes in the bass shown so that you can clearly visualize the rhythm in the right hand)

Listen to Frank demonstrate one way to play this (using a double pump walking left hand at 110 bpm)…


Blues Piano Lick 002 Fingering & Technique Suggestion

A bread and butter blues hack is to simply “slide” off of F#4 onto G with your index finger going up and “slide” off of Gb onto F using your middle finger coming down…

blues piano lick 002 fingering

Random Practice Reminder

You always practice with a click track or rhythm track, right?


(If you learned something here today, consider buying Frank a coffee to say thanks)

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