Skip to content

Piano-ology

Learn to Play like an ARTIST
Main navigation
  • About
    • Welcome
    • The Piano-ology Story
    • Meet Your Teacher
    • Hear Your Teacher Play
    • Webcam Lessons
    • Creative Commons
    • Why No MIDI Files?
    • Contact
  • Mindset & Attitude
  • Music Theory & Ear Training
    • Time & Rhythm
    • Scales
    • Chords
    • Chord Progressions
    • Transposition
    • Composition & Improvisation
    • Ear Training
    • How to Read Music
    • The Physics of Sound
  • How to Study-Practice
  • Piano Technique
  • Performance Anxiety
  • Blues School
  • Country School
  • Pop-Rock School
  • Gospel School
  • Jazz School
  • Buying a Piano
  • Donate

Category Archive: Blues School

Tons of Blues Piano vocabulary to add to your bag

Blues School: Mixolydian Scale: Theory & Ear Training

piano-ology-blues-school-c-mixolydian-scale-featured
P P Read More

The Mixolydian Scale is widely used in major-sounding Blues tonalities commonly found in Blues, rock, pop, folk, and modal jazz…

Continue reading →
2015-04-04 Blues School

Blues School: Major Blues Scale, Theory & Ear Training

piano-ology-blues-school-c-major-blues-scale-featured
P P Read More

The Major Blues Scale is the lesser-known cousin of the minor blues scale. Also known as the Jazz Blues Scale, it has a more majorish, jazzier quality than the minor blues…

Continue reading →
2015-04-03 Blues School

Blues School: Minor Pentatonic Scale: Theory & Ear Training

piano-ology-blues-school-c-minor-pentatonic-scale-featured
P P Read More

As the name suggests, the Minor Pentatonic Scale has five notes and a minor quality–widely used in Blues tonalities in blues (of course), folk, pop, and rock….

Read more…
2015-04-02 Blues School

Blues School: Minor Blues Scale, Theory & Ear Training

piano-ology-blues-school-c-minor-blues-scale-featured
P P Read More

The Minor Blues Scale is the blues scale that most people are familiar with, so much so that it often just called the Blues Scale…

Continue reading →
2015-04-01 Blues School

Blues School: A Lesson in Rhythm

In this lesson we’re going to use a simple boogie woogie pattern to illustrate the true nature of musical time and rhythm…

Continue reading →
2015-03-03 Blues School

Blues School: Shuffle Rhythm & Notation

piano-ology-blues-school-shuffle-rhythm-featured
P P Read More

A lesson in the common practice of simplifying the music notation for shuffle music in order to make the score easier to read…

Continue reading →
2015-03-02 Blues School

Blues School: Rhythm: The Big Three Blues Feels

Before we even begin to delve into comping, scales, and blues harmony, it is absolutely essential to have a deep understanding of Blues Rhythm…

Continue reading →
2015-03-01 Blues School

Blues School: Minor Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, First Lesson

piano-ology-blues-school-minor-blues-12-bar-form-harmony-first-lesson-featured
P P Read More

Welcome to the first and most important lesson in Minor Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony…

Continue reading →
2015-02-01 Blues School

Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #8

piano-ology-blues-school-major-blues-12-bar-form-harmony-variation-08-featured
P P Read More

This harmonically sophisticated 12-bar Blues variation combines many of the ideas we have already studied–creating lots of harmonic interest and sense of forward motion…

Continue reading →
2015-01-08 Blues School

Blues School: Major Blues 12-Bar Form & Harmony, Variation #7

piano-ology-blues-school-major-blues-12-bar-form-harmony-variation-07-featured
P P Read More

This commonly used 12-bar Blues variation substitutes a full turnaround based on secondary dominants V7/II-V7/V-V7 in the last two bars…

Continue reading →
2015-01-07 Blues School

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 7 8 9 10 Next
  • Home
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

Piano-ology
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Hive.
 

Loading Comments...