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Summary: How to play the eighth advanced 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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Hi@ My name is Jonathan Wilson on behalf of Expert Village.com, and we're learning thirty must-have blues piano licks. We've made it all the up to lick twenty-eight. This is just a as fast as you can play them kind of lick. I've heard this on a bunch of old blues recordings, usually on a really out of tune piano. Where somebody tells the piano player to take a solo and he just kind of whips this thing out. You've probably heard it before. I'll show you the notation at a slow speed. You can get the general idea. O.K., so the spirit behind this lick is to basically kind of run through this pattern between the F and then walk down that blues scale from F-sharp down, kind of as fast as you can. It's just sort of this sort of hammer on those notes thing and just sort of let those things rip out of there. So let's do this up to speed. I'm not going to worry about too much rhythmically matching the notation. I'm just going to kind of play around with this like those old guys used to do. It sounds like this over the full band. Alright, that's pretty fun. Lick number twenty-eight is what we just heard. Lots of fast moving stuff there. We're down to the last two. Lick twenty-nine is a very odd, strange lick. I had to throw in one of those. Come back for that. Lick twenty-nine.