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Summary: How to play the seventh easy blues piano lick, including a step-by-step demonstration; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by professional composer and pianist Jonathan Wilson.

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chilkari Jonathon Wilson has been a professional composer and pianist for over twenty years. His work spans a number of genres, from jazz to new age to trance. He's a ... read more

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Blues Piano Easy Lick Seven

Hi, my name is Jonathan Wilson on behalf of Expert Village.com. We're learning thirty must-have blues licks. And we're in the first ten, which are the easy ones. This is lick number seven. Last time we learned a tremolo octave. This one is a tremolo between the five and the flat seven. If you're in the of C, that's between G and B-flat. I've added a little bit of a rock up into this, which is very, very commonly done. This is probably one of the most commonly heard blues licks of all time. Now, very slowly with the metronome and the notation. It goes like this. Okay, that sounds familiar, right? Again, just like with the tremolo with the octaves, any time you've got a tremolo between two notes, you want to work on having your wrist do the work, not your fingers. Turn a doorknob. Keep your wrist very relaxed when you're going back and forth. In this particular case, the fingers don't matter. You can do it between one and two, one and three, one and four. Anything that works. It's completely up to you. The trick here then is, whatever fingers you use, just get that nice doorknob action going. Fluid, rocking back and forth. Okay? So, here's lick number seven, tremolo with a little rock up, with the full band up to speed. It sounds like this. Okay, that one's cool. We've heard that one a million times. I'm sure you have. But, it's a good one. Every once in a while, you can just sit and tremolo that five flat seven all day long. It's a good one. Moving on. Coming up lick number eight.

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