The Famous Blues Cross Over Lick!
Here is the famous piano crossover lick! It gets used a lot in blues, rock and country keyboard styles. Probably one of the most popular and common licks you’ll hear used on recordings. This can be used anytime you are improvising over a C chord.
You really should transpose this to other keys. Try and see how it is based around a C major triad and it will help you take it to new keys.
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Video outline:
The first half of the video is a different lick over a 2 5 1 progression. In this key the 2 is Dminor, the 5 is G7 and the 1 chord is Cmajor 7.
Right around :15 is where the lick demonstration gets slowed down.
chris…
great quick lesson!
this is just what i’ve been looking for…some quick advice on famous blues licks…both left and right hand.
i’ll be checkin here and on youtube for anything you post!!
don
hot!!
Chris you’re the best I learn so much from you. I was looking at the chords you’re using and caught the d minor but couldn’t catch the rest
ooops sorry Chris if I would have read I would have found my answer.
excellent blog, I follow you on youtube, but is the 1st time I checkl your blog.
One question about this video:
I see clearly that you play the II chord with the left hand (Dm), but for the V chord you play F B D#, that is G7#5
and for the I chord you play E G A D, that would not be Cmaj7 but C 6,9 or something similar??
Cheers
Rod
ok, I see these are altered forms that can substitute the V or the I chord, I’m not so familiar with jazz chords.
Cheers
Wonderful work here chris.