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Welcome to the country gospel waltz, a delicious mixing of two home-spun and uniquely American musical genres... Notice the extensive use of octaves, triplet pickups, walk-ups, walk-downs, and Floyd Cramer licks... all definitive features of the country gospel style... Practice-Study Tips "Memorization": Don't merely "memorize" this. Use your knowledge of chords and scales to discover … Continue reading Country School: Country Gospel Waltz
This Floyd Cramer lick sustains "the 1" as the top note as you play a "6-5-3" triplet that resolves to "the 5"...
This Floyd Cramer lick sustains "the 5" as the top note as you play a "2-3-1" triplet that resolves up to "the 3"...
A commonly used Floyd Cramer pattern sustains "the 1" as the top note as "the 6" resolves down to "the 5"...
A commonly-used Floyd Cramer pattern sustains "the 5" as the top note as "the 2" resolves up to "the 3"... Here it is applied to the "big 3" chords in an 8-bar form... learn more... Country School: Floyd Cramer Licks: 6 to 5 Resolution
Let's explore the basic ingredients of that quintessential country piano sound made famous by pianist Floyd Cramer... Cramer's ideas are based on the Pentatonic Scale-Chord Pairs for the "big 3" chords--I, IV, V. The driving melodic and harmonic force of each scale-chord relationship is that "the 2" of each scale/chord wants to resolve to "the … Continue reading Country School: Floyd Cramer Licks: The First Lesson
The definitive scale-chord pairing in country music is the Major Triad and its parallel Major Pentatonic Scale...
Learn to play Country Piano in a variety of authentic styles...