Beginning Blues Keyboard

Learn how to play blues piano. In this course, Tricia Woods dives into the basic building blocks of blues, and helps you acquire the skills you need to really sound like a blues player. To begin, Tricia demonstrates the chord progressions for the 12-bar blues—the most classic of all blues forms. Next, she discusses the blues scale, dominant chords, comping, turnaround, endings, introductions, boogie-woogie bass lines, and more.

Learning objectives
Labeling the chord and triads
Triad inversions
The blues scale and the major pentatonic scale
Playing off the dominant chord and dominant bass line
Dominant chord inversions
Playing off the triad
Blues fills
Turnarounds
Endings and introductions
Boogie-woogie bass lines
Cycle of 5ths and the 6th chord