Blues Piano Lesson: Blues Piano Lick 008

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

Blues Piano Lick 008 (in the Key of D)

Two bars long, based on the D Minor Pentatonic Scale with the #4/b5 blue note added as a tasty grace note up to So and down to Fa

music notation for blues piano lick 008

Listen to Frank demonstrate one way to play this (with a sparse bass line at 108 bpm)…

Technique Tip: Play each grace note and target note with the very same finger. Simply slide off each black note onto the target note with a single impulse.


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

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