Frank’s HUGE personal collection of killer Blues Piano Licks to add to you bag… by ear, intellect, eye, and muscle…
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Lesson Goal
To add a bunch of bread and butter blues piano licks to your internal musical library in a variety of keys.
Prerequisites
Basic music reading skills… basic scale, chord, and chord progression theory… basic piano technique… the LOVE of music… and the discipline to study and practice.
Study, Practice, & Performance Tips
- Never play these mindlessly and mechanically. Always aspire to play them musically.
- Don’t just play dots. Play sounds!
- Never think, hear, and play one note at time. Hear and play in complete phrases.
- Don’t merely memorize these. Internalize them using all four musical intelligences: ears, intellect, eyes, and muscles.
- Every time you practice something, you are programming your brain. So always play accurately.
- Practice with a Click Track or a Rhythm Track. Doing so will give you immediate feedback on any rhythmic misconceptions or places where your timing gets sloppy.
- Record Yourself, always. Listen to the playback immediately, and ask yourself: Is that what you intended to play?”
- If anything feels tense or awkward, stop immediately and experiment with alternative fingerings or choreography.
- Play in other keys you expect to play in. By the way, once you see the patterns (which is guaranteed if you know your scales and chords) finding the notes in other keys will be a piece of cake!
- When you feel stuck or overwhelmed, realize that anything can and will be mastered if you slow things down or break things down to small enough pieces.
- Although it takes time to talk about all the above practice habits, practicing them takes almost no time at all because they can all be done simultaneously!
- Mastering all this takes no special talent. All it takes is a wee bit of knowledge and the discipline to employ a very short list of productive study and practice habits.
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Blues Piano Lick #001
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Blues Piano Lick #003
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Blues Piano Lick #005
Blues Piano Lick #006
Blues Piano Lick #007
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Blues Piano Lick #010
Blues Piano Lick #011
Blues Piano Lick #012
Blues Piano Lick #013
Special Note from Frank: I have a hundred more killer blues piano licks in the music library inside my head that I’ve been stocking there for decades. Anybody interested in seeing and hearing more like these?
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