{"id":383,"date":"2020-04-24T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianoamore.com\/welcome\/?p=383"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:38:17","slug":"beginners-blues-piano-non-theory-lesson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianoamore.com\/welcome\/beginners-blues-piano-non-theory-lesson-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Blues Piano: Non-Theory Lesson #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BluesIf you have taken yourself through lessons #1 and 2 of this little series, you are playing the 12 Bar Blues progression with your left hand much like a pro player might approach it. By the way, if you ever hear anyone use the term “12 Bar Blues Form,” that person is referring to this progression that you now know how to play.\u00a0 This 12 measure progression is the basic 12 measure blues form played again and again by so many of the greats.<\/p>\n

I would like to devote this particular message to encouraging you to appreciate what you have accomplished up to this point. Please practice playing those chord voicings with your left hand as you become more and more confident with doing do.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I feel that it might serve you well to listen to two master pianists playing the blues. I’m referring to the excellence of Oscar Peterson and Count Basie as they both play a fantastic rendition of blues piano that anyone can look up to..<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, this video footage shows, when the camera was at just the right angle, that some of the chord voicings that each of them is playing with his left hand coincide with the exact same chord voicings that you using at this point:<\/p>\n