Blues Piano Easy Lick Six

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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 are the easy ones. This one's really easy, but it's also really cool. It's just a straight tremolo in octaves between C and C. It couldn't get much easier than this, but it's also just cool. Sometimes, you can let that band just cook along back there and you can just warble on a tremolo like this and it's just exactly what you need to play at that moment. Just because licks are easy, it doesn't mean they're not incredibly useful and the right thing to play at any particular time. There's a use for them in many places. Let's start out by just hearing this at the nice slow speed with the metronome and the notation so you can see it. It's real easy. Okay, so some tips and techniques as far as physically making this happen. Any kind of tremolo like this, you want to make sure you're not doing it with your finger muscles. This is definitely a rocking motion, almost like you're turning a doorknob. Okay? Again, this is a full octave. If you have larger hands, this'll be a lot easier for you. But, by the same token, even if you have smaller hands, don't try to reach the whole octave. Just try to get a motion going like this, where you're rocking back and forth. It's like turning a doorknob, you're kind of rocking your hand back and forth and that will allow a nice fluid motion that doesn't allow your hand to tense up, your wrist to stiffen, your hands to tense up like this. That's death for a piano player. You need keep your hand relaxed at almost all times. Okay? So work on keeping that wrist relaxed and get that nice fluid rocking motion going. Okay? Here's the tremolo over the full band. I'll just sit and warble on this thing for the whole chorus and you can hear how it sits in the groove. Okay, that's lick number six and that octave tremolo just sitting in there with the full band. Very easy, but very cool. Lot's of places where you can use that one. Next, lick number seven, it's pretty similar, it's another tremolo, just slightly different, a couple of different notes. Very, very commonly heard. You'll recognize this one coming up.

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