Blues Piano Music Theory

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Hi! My name is Paul Becker and I am going to talk to you today about playing the Blues on the piano beginning, intermediate and even advanced information about the Blues and I am doing this for Expert Village. In this segment, I would like to talk to you a little bit about this form of music. The Blues that I play is based on Chicago Blues. Chicago Blues was Blues played initially in Chicago and other urban centers where black musicians from the south were playing acoustic guitars and other instruments came to the city around the 1940's started to electrify their instruments and have a little stronger beat and play more for dances. If you want to catch the best Chicago Blues player that you ever want to hear, go get yourself something from Otis Spinn. He is supposed to be the half-brother of Muddy Waters. You can get some very good recordings and learn a lot from him. I once had the privilege of playing with him and had a little lesson with him. He was a lot of fun. The thing about the Blues the last thing I want to say is if you play the Blues it is pretty simple music. In one sense, there is really 3 chords; 1, 4 and 5. The interest is probably in the rhythm in many cases and the style. The Blues is most entirely inevitable. The chords are always going to be where they are going to be but the inevitability gives you the foundation on which to do a lot of preservation and a lot of interest and probably provides the interest we have in this music.

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