Boogie Woogie 110 - 2 Handed Blues Piano Pattern
Here is a intermediate boogie woogie piano pattern for two hands on Dominant 7 chords! (G7)
It builds off of our last post Boogie Woogie Piano 101
This version gives you a much fuller blues boogie sound. It would work great while playing behind a singer, soloist or even all by itself. Try to tranpose this into the keys of G, C and D, then you could use it on a blues in G.
First I show you the key to this pattern: Your pinky fingers stay on the same note G. (:35)
Then we break it down step by step. (:52) Your left hand stays on the same note while your thumb moves up. In the right hand part, again your pinky stays the same while your right thumb moves the same direction as your left thumb. This creates a nice harmony between the two notes as they move together.
By moving your thumbs, you’re changing the notes from GDBG to CECG. This changes the chords from Gmajor to C major.
Watch out for muddiness! As you get lower on the piano with your left hand, you need to make sure to spread the notes out wider and wider. Rather than playing a G major triad in the low octaves (GBD) leave out the middle note and just play G and D.
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Hello Chris
The less I like boogie
I prefer examples of using the accompanying stride
Thank you very much
Gerard MEUNIER
Hi,
Have learned a few interresting things from you.
I’d like to know more but am having problems fing the information.
For example Summertime lead sheet would only print the left half of the sheet, no matter how many times I changed the settings.
Also I cant find your videos on the web site. Do I have to go directly to U-Tube?
Thanks,
Flower.
Hi Flower,
You should have the flash media player downloaded to play the videos. If you can watch youtube.com, you should be able to see fastpianolessons.com because they are imported youtube videos.
The lead sheet to summertime is a JPG. So you shouldn’t have to many problems. If you’re clicking print from your browser, try downloading it and opening it up with an image program to shrink it to fit on the page.
Thanks,
Chris Marx
Hello,
I’m loving the boogie woogie stuff more and more. I hope you’ll eventually make a whole blues section based just on boogie in the future. I’d really enjoy it!
Darryl
hey man
love the site. im getting right into the piano, bought myself an old converted pianola, and now a yamaha p95 for night time practice. i love boogie woogie, blues, rock n roll, rhythm and blues, gospel and so on…. to me though its really the boogie woogie i wanna get into.
i have a good couple of books on the topic:
bernard whitfeild: boogie woogie for advanced beginners
frank paparelli: eight to the bar
frank paparellii: boogie woogie for beginners
blues hanon
jazz hanon
boogie woogie hanon
i understand theory and chords real well, which is making it easy to teach myself, but i just wanted to drop a message to point out what im doing and what i have, if you think there are other books or videos i should check out, please let me know.
i like you site, id love heaps more on boogie woogie.. more licks, and perhaps an idea of what i should be practicing on a daily basis? what scales etc? piano is my second instrument, but im able to put in an hour or so per day more days
im thinking of getting a teacher to guide me more generally, but im benefiting a lot from the bits i pick up.
there are a couple styles that im at a loss for to learn by ear.
can you please do a lesson on the style of songs like:
sixty minute man - the dominoes
my babys 3d dominones
its got lots of chords, and what do you do in 2 feel sections? stride style?
what about real ballads like this tune:
rockin blues by johnny otis
just chords and embellishments? with not real bass line through out?
thank man, any comment back is appreciated. im gonna keep at it anyway!