Here is a pattern that you can use in a lot of pop, rock or blues songs. It is one of the most common patterns on the piano… The trick is to find ways to add variation to it!
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Here are a bunch of licks! You should be keeping a small book of all the licks you’ve worked on so that you don’t forget them and can go back and review them when you need to polish them up or try them in a few keys! Steal some of […]
Here are some left hand patterns for the sweet home Alabama exercise. notice at the end some of the fills and walk ups back to the G chord. You can precede the g chord with E, F, F# and then G.
These are notes from Jesse’s Lesson! He’s working on playing with his roommates who play guitar. They’re learning Pink Floyd wish you were here and we were figuring out ways for the piano to play with the guitar. Next we’ll spice it up with some blues licks.
Here are some notes we took during Joe’s lesson on playing a blues on C7 & F7 chords and tension substitutions.
The chords and groove for hit the road jack on the piano!
Here are a bunch of different right hand patterns you can play as a solo in sweet home alabama!
Tritone substitution is awesome. check out chapter 6 in the mark levine book for a better explanation
This is a cool sounding way to play a I to IV progression. The right hand is using 9ths and 13ths on the dominant 7th chords with the smoothest motion possible. (some of the notes are staying the same and others only move a short distance as the chord changes).
Whole step below the root basslines.