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Summary: How to play basic 12 chord blues piano; learn this and more in this free online video piano lesson for intermediate level musicians taught by expert pianist Paul Becker.

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Paul Becker Paul Becker has been playing the piano for more then 20 years. He is a musician in heart and soul, and also plays the Accordion and the Shofar. read more

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Basic 12 Bar Blues Piano

Hi, my name is Paul Becker and I'm going to talk to you today about playing the blues on the piano, some beginner intermediate need to advance information about the blues and I'm doing this for Expert Village. In this segment we'll just run through the structure of the blues which is in 12 bars, 12 bar blues, the basic blues, there just 3 chords the chord on the first the 4th and the 5th degree the 1 4 and 5 most blue pianos prefer to play in C or B flat. B flat is really the best for this music cause black keys and the white keys fall together in a pretty cool way but pertains to video I'll play in C's so you can see a little bit easier what I'm doing, so here's a basic 12 bar blues. (playing piano)

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