Blues Piano Easy Lick Nine

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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. But this is number nine, so we're kind of reaching the end of these things. This one's actually very easy. It's intentionally easy. It's got a little bit of like a Count Basie feel. If you don't know who that is, he was a jazz piano player who made his whole fortune by playing almost no notes. He just put notes in the right place. And that's what this lick is all about. It's got three, four notes, but they're in the right place. So, let's just go to the half speed version with the metronome and the notation so you can hear it. Okay, very simple. The idea here is to be tasty. To put those notes in and make people wait for the notes. There's something to be said for the blues piano player who knows how to pace his solo. And, you never want to play your fastest piano lick right out of the gate. You know. You've got to shape your solo. And the first half of your solo, you want licks like this, that leave lots of space and puts the notes just in certain places and let the audience kind of settle into the mood and be ready for whatever is coming next. So, I'll take this pattern and play something very similar to it over a whole chorus with the band. It sounds like this. Okay. A nice, tasty, simple, easy lick. That's number nine. Coming up next, lick number ten.

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