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
(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 (with a sparse bass line at 108 bpm)…

Blues Piano Lick 008 Fingering & Technique Suggestion

Notice that you reuse your middle finger on both the grace note (Ab) and target note (G) coming down. Simply slide off the black grace note onto the while target note with a single impulse…

music notation showing the fingering for blues piano lick 008

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

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