Easy Blues Piano Lessons - 4ths Lick - 3 Videos & FREE Sheet Music!
This is a great piano lick to learn and then take to other keys! We are actually putting two different licks together for one monster lick. Just make sure you can watch all videos in the player below… You can switch between videos by using the side arrow buttons in the youtube view.
- Learn lick #1 in video 1.
- Learn lick #2 in video 2.
- Put them together in video 3.
These are also shown on the handout. If you’re a good reader, you’ll be able to learn this faster by reading the music and then watching video #3 just to make sure you’re on the right track! Video #1 & #2 break it down a little more step by step.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL PDF SHEET MUSIC HERE:
PDF DOWNLOAD LINK: Easy Blues Piano Lessons-blues-4ths-lick
Here are the 3 licks we cover in the video:
very well explained.
Great exercise thanks. Any chance you could post a full 12 bar blues - with lots of kool riffs.
Hi Chris
Thanks for this lesson. You are an excellent piano teacher.
When I have some extra money, I will hire you for some online lessons as I appreciate what you are doing here very much.
Hi Chris,
Have not been practising the piano but your lessons are always impressive and so inspirational.. You make it all sound so easy and fun. Helps to marry the sheets to the piano playing too..giving the theory a new live approach.
I have been spreading your lessons to friends who want to learn easy piano.
You deserve a gold medal if utube awards one.
Thanks
Bonnie from London
Hello Chris,
Thanks a lot for this nice tutorial! (and others to)
I like youre way of teaching.
It’s fun and i learn some nice sounds very easy.
Have a nice day.
Greetz from Belgium,
Danny
Great lesson. Very easy to understand. Made me anxious to get back to my keyboard asap and try it out. Thanks!
excellent
thanks!!!!
Thanks,
You are a good teacher, thanks a lot
Greetings from Holland
Hi Chris,
youre piano lessons are the best
thanks
Greetings from Germany
Thank you Chris!
It’s super!
Thanks! Your a Great Music teacher, very well explained. This is what I’ve been working on ! Helps alot with the blues scales, love it!
Good information, enjoyed the lesson.
Great Chris,
Glad i found you getting quite excited you make it look easy i need to get away from all those auto backings and some real piano playing Thanks
really i am happy caus i m learning free.your lessons r excellent.if u send me more about blues i will be greatfull to you.
faruq
bangladesh
Thank you for that wonderful lesson Chris. Very understandable and lots of fun.
Suzanne Boca Raton Florida
Thank you, great lesson, keep them coming.
Don
thank you it is fun to play
Very nice–shows that even simple licks can sound cool
Very good job. Keep going pal with new jazz lessons
Wow, Chris!
Thanks a lot…
Slavko
Im new to music…..and this is a Great lesson. Thnx. 50 yo m from the D.
I really like your style, it is good. Unfortunately I do not have so much time left for me to play. I am too busy with work, I hope that one day it would be better for me.
Thanks
Avi
Awesome way to teach us…Very understandable, love what you do/did. Ty for the E-mail and link!!!
Thanks for this Chris: Hre’s my feedback.
Having the written notes above the keyboard really helps as the fingers are not always clear. It took me ages to learn summertime on your website and I probably could have done it in half the time if these notes were present (it didn’t stop me though!)
The lesson is well broken down. I was just about to say ‘easy’ until you wanted it transposed to 5 chords! That shut me up.
Having the PDF music is really helpful as I can write your comments on it as I am playing and it acts as a good reminder.
Lastly: Thanks for the blues scale, It’s the first time somebody has taught the fingering if you want to go up a second octave. Everybody else ends on the octave C.
Really looking forward to some more. If you want somthing to do (ha ha bet your’e not at all busy) I have the melody and chords for Van Morrisons Moondance but I can’t arrange it to sound at all like anything anybody would want to listen to. Any help gratefull accepted.
Please keep up the good work. I am unable to go to a piano teacher on a regular basis due to shift work and young family. Your lessons keep me going!
Chris,
Thanks so much. I’ve been playing for quite a while and have a good grasp of chords and scales but I find that when I’m improvising I seem to run out of fingers or they are so twisted up I can’t hit the next note. Is there any rules or patterns that will help smooth out my fingering?
Thanks again for the great lessons.
Chris,
Thanks for the lick. Very easy to follow. I like the sound of adding b7 and root to the end of your lick, after a pause. F F# G Eb C Bb C
I like that you say “now stop here and go learn it in other keys”. Forces me to have a bit of discipline, which is needed I’m guessing for allot of people.
Thanks, and keep those licks coming!
Hey Chris, Great job! I’ve been playing piano for over 50 years and have had instruction from some of the best. You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you.
Hi Chris, I am very much interested in playing the blues. But one thing is confusing me: How can I apply these lessons on playing fast rhythm music like for instance playing the La Bamba ? How do you apply the 12 bar blues form?Or does playing the blues mean playing only random music? But then I have read while larning different blues riffs that if one is interested in playing boogie among other things, it is vital that one has to learn the blues. I am already embarrassed asking you this qustion because it sounds ignorant. But still blues music is a very interesting mystery to me and I here I am, swallowing my pride. Thank you for understanding. Libby
tnx chris…GBU
Great lessons.
You explain very well and it’s much appreciated you offer these for free.
thanks
Chris,
My monitor is sitting on my piano. the keyboard is right beside it. It would be great if there was some marker at the beginning of each lick. Someway I could reach over and hit the spacebar and it would start back at the beginning of the lick. Can your software create those markers. It may be a youtube overlay..?
Either way - Thank you so much for taking the time to put it all together!
nice ! cool easy explanation. great lesson.
wooohhoooo!!!
Thanks a bunch, dude!
Me parecen unas lecciones excelentes!
Gracias! From Mexico City
dude, your awsome. a little easy but… cep it coming.
Great as usual
Good one Chris, great one for getting left hand and right hands working together.
Cheers
Phil
hi Chris
Thanks for this, is there any chance that you could do a piano tutorial on Justin Bieber Baby, or N-Dubz I Need You thanks
Hi Cris thanks for the work you put in , I would like to be contructive and ask for new and exciting things but I am happy to follow what you are doing I suppose anything that helps the newbie get things down quicker and gives us something to look good doing even if its simple (everyone likes to show off their new tricks) good luck and thanks once again for your time and energy mal
you did it again, helped a lot. i will always be a fan of yours. thank you.
Hi Chris,
Youre piano lessons are the best
thanks.
Greetings from Ukraine.
Thanks Chris you are changing my life.
So much fun!! love your teaching method… always dreaded piano lessons, or learning chords, scales… etc. etc. but your lessons are awesome… thanx!!!
Hi Chris,
I got a couple of lessons in May and then nothing since then. I don’t know if you’ve taken a break or I’ve not gotten them for some reason.
I especially like the ballad patterns lessons. I would like to learn as many different patterns as I can for rock and pop in differnt temps so I can play in a band.
Thanks
Bill
Thanks Chris, The slowdown part help me a lot. this one I can play good and have lots fun with it. Thanks again you’r really good , Lanny
This is really a great post. This info will surely help and inspire me to learn to play piano. Keep it up and I look forward for every post in your blog.
Thank you Chris
This way you get hands on experience with each technique as you learn. And don’t worry about not knowing how a piece of music should sound or how you should be playing it. Each piece has an audio example to show you what it sounds like.
Found a blog with a great piano lesson video for beginners . It was three videos that will teach you three different blues licks. It is great to learn tricks.
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Alprazolam….
Alprazolam….
Chris ; You explain very well for a computer class . I have been a bass player
for over 40 yrs. Recently I have been taking Piano with a very talented player / composer . One thing I would like to say , when you get new students to start to learn the lines and spaces on the staff , I always found to just learn the notes . And repeat them , and memorize only the note names. For me it was much easier and faster to think of ; E G B D F instead of thinking of a word first then the note name . Just a thought. But you are doing a great job . My hats off to you for your time .
Regards ;
Chop
Got it! You rock.
Very well explained!
I will have a go at showing this to my student the next time I see him. I particularly like the idea of both hands, left hand as well. Piano Lessons London
Been studying for about 20 years, classical. Also went to music school and studied for a couple of years. Went from practicing 1 hour a day to 3 hours a day. I don’t play professionally, but I have the background.
Your videos are fantastic. I’ve been wondering how to supplement the training that I’ve had. There’s nothing I’ve ever come across that compares with your training.
Thank you for offering a great resource to both novice and expert alike.
It is especially difficult to know what to play in the left hand while you are jamming in the right hand.
You give a way a lot of tricks and techniques of the masters and make what sounds like a complicated piece simple to understand.
I applaud you on your work here.
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Pianos are so awesome!
Hi chris thanks for the very impression lessons that you show us. Very proffessional lessons and on the other hand you simplify the music for us.
Iwounder how i get all your lessons? is the chord 101 is the only one?
with regards
izik
Hey Mr. Chris,
Im so glad that I stopped by your page. You make this piano thing look sooo easy! I will definitly be getting your work to help me become a better player. Thank you teaching me and keep up the great work!