Blues Piano Easy Lick Five

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Hi, my name is Jonathan Wilson on behalf of Expert Village.com, and we're learning thirty must-have blues piano licks. We're in the first ten, which is the easy set and we've made it to number five. Now, this one is a little like number three. It's sort of a descending quarter note pattern and there's a little turnaround at the end, with some eighth notes. Again, like number three, this has the option, if you want to, of interspersing offbeat Cs between the quarter notes that are descending. You can leave them in if you want, or you can just omit them, it's up to you. I'll play them in the examples, but remember those offbeat Cs can be left out and it works just fine. Here it is very slowly with the metronome and the notation. Okay. Again, pretty easy! Technically, maybe a little bit more challenging because you've got a full octave reach there between the C on the top and on the bottom. But, still, we're doing pretty good. Just practice; work with your metronome, if this is becoming technically challenging for you. Same kind of thing, any time you're going back and forth over the course of an entire octave. Many times you can get an advantage by using your wrist and your arm instead of your fingers. Don't try to reach the whole octave if you have smaller hands. You know, play the top notes and then move your hand down. Kind of rotate your hand. It makes it a lot easier. It keeps your hand relaxed. You don't get as tired. It's a good technique for playing longer stretches like that. Now, let's take this lick full speed with the band. Here's how it sounds in context. Okay, that's lick number five. Still pretty cool, pretty easy, but pretty cool. Now, we're going to keep things going. Next, nice easy one, lick number six is coming up.

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