Blues Piano Intermediate Lick Three

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Hi. My name is Jonathan Wilson on behalf of ExpertVillage.com, and we're learning thirty must-have blues piano licks. Now, we're making our way into our intermediate licks. We're on lucky number thirteen, which is probably another one of the most famous blues licks of all time. You've just heard this a million times. It's a triplet lick with a double stop. Let's just go straight to the notation with the metronome at a slow speed so you can hear it. You'll recognize it. Sound familiar? Thought so. O.K., it's a great lick. Especially, as you get your tempos up and things speed up. It's kind of a flashy one. It's one of those things that everybody goes nuts when somebody hammers out these triplet patterns like this one. So, not too much to tell you. It's hard physically to do this one. Try to get your hand to relax between the triplets. But there's really no substitute for just kind of practicing it and working with a metronome, slowly, slowly, increasing your speed until you've got it up to where you want it. This one's physically kind of demanding. As you get into higher speeds, this one can cause you to tense. The thing avoid is don't let you hand tense as you play those triplets. That's a common thing, people will start playing the triplets, they start out o.k., but then they sort of stiffen up and they turn into this big block of stone. And then they just sort of lose all their mobility and their ability to keep playing. So keep things loose; keep things relaxed that's the real key to making this work. So here it is. I'll try to maintain this through the whole chorus over the band. It sounds like this. Alright, lucky lick number thirteen, the classic triplet hammer lick. O.K., very good. We're going to move on to number fourteen, which is probably something you haven't heard, something a little bit more note-y. Let's just go on to that and you can hear it for yourself.

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