Country School: Country Gospel Waltz

piano music notation for gospel waltz

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

Country School: Floyd Cramer Licks: The First Lesson

music notation showing the 2 to 3 and 6 to 5 floyd cramer resolutions

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