How To Play. Blues Boogie Piano Styles
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After gaining a few years of experience playing classical music, Luca started to experiment with other genres and quickly started playing blues and boogie-woogie styles. After he merged blues, boogie-woogie, and classical together, he found an upbeat playing style that filled his soul.
Although there are many variations, the basic boogie-woogie bass pattern is a two-bar pattern using quarter notes. The bassline ascends and then descends strongly outlining the notes of each dominant 7th chord in the blues progression.
You should learn to play the boogie-woogie bassline over blues variation 1 first. (The Boogie-Woogie exercise.) The two-bar boogie-woogie pattern neatly fits it since it contains two (or four) bars of each chord.
Boogie Stomp! the Stage Play is an evening in the theater with two of the greatest jazz/boogie/stride/blues pianists in the world. Together, they tell the story of boogie woogie, its origins, subsequent history and ongoing development, and how it relates to all of American music.
Boogie Bob Baldori has been a mainstay of blues, boogie and rock in the midwest for over 40 years. He has performed hundreds of dates in venues from Detroit to Chicago, LA to New York to the White House for President Clinton. In addition to recording and performing his own material, Boogie Bob has produced and engineered over 200 albums. He also wrote and starred in ALMOST FAMOUS, a rock/musical that had five successful productions starting at the Boarshead Theater in Lansing, Michigan, moving to the Wharton Center at MSU, Les Idee in Grand Rapids, The Apollo Theater in Chicago and in 1998 at The Limelight Theater, Toronto. He also combines a law practice with his recording/performing career, representing many clients including Hubert Sumlin and Chuck Berry in the entertainment field.
Baldori has written a collection of original piano solos that will be published in October of 2005 and is completing an instructional book on improvisational piano and a book of over 250 exercises for jazz/blues/boogie improvisation.
Baldori started his career in the late sixties in Detroit with his group, The Woolies, and soon released a national hit, WHO DO YOU LOVE. In the following years, in addition to touring and performing extensively and recording on his own, he backed up Chuck Berry, playing hundreds of dates and recording two albums with Mr. Berry. In addition to Berry, Boogie Bob has worked and recorded with many other blues and rock legends, playing piano and harmonica. They include Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Luther Allison, Del Shannon, John Hammond, Hubert Sumlin and Bo Diddley. Along the way he developed a style of piano playing heavily influenced by boogie, jazz, and the relentless blues styles of Lafayette Leake, Otis Spann, James Booker and Johnny Johnson. If you like classic, no holds barred rocking piano boogie, this is for you!
Play your blues away! This hands-on workshop introduces beginners and experts alike to the uniquely American piano form known as the blues. For beginners it’s a low-stress introduction to piano playing. For those who already play traditional piano this workshop sets the stage for learning many different styles including rock, gospel, jazz, boogie-woogie, and improvising techniques. Learn the secrets of the blues’ unique scale, form, rhythm, and improvisation. And free yourself from sheet music. No prerequisite.
Boogie woogie really emerged in the early 20th century in USA, more specifically in Chicago. Among the boogie woogie and blues players of that time, the Thomas brothers (Georoge Thomas and Hersal Thomas) appeared to have had a deep influence on Chicago musicians such as Jimmy Yancey and Jimmy Blythe, bringing this piano style from their home Texas. Later in 1928, Clarence \"Pinetop\" Smith recorded his hit title \"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie\", after which the boogie woogie will adopt his definitive denomination. Still in Chicago, a new generation of pianists among which Albert Ammons et Meade Lux Lewis, will enrich the language of boogie woogie till définitive form.
Boogie boogie is often played on a fast tempo and is characterised by a left hand accompaniment in the bass section of the keyboard, which can be reminiscent of the sound of a guitar. The right hand playing variations, chords and \"gimmicks\" generally taken from blues language. A richness of this style is the great number of possible of left hand accompaniments, each pianist had, over the years developed a new and original way play this music.Learn Boogie Woogie Sheet Music
BlueBlackJazz offers piano transcriptions of the greatest boogie woogie piano solos. These transcriptions has been mas after original recordings of the boogie woogie masters. Music score are available in PDF format, individually or as a book selection:
\"Boss of the Boogie\" Rob Rio (vocals, piano) is another of Brenner's festival's prestigious performers. What keeps Rio retuning to the festival is \"amazing practitioners of the uniquely American piano style that gave birth to rock 'n roll, boogie woogie.\" Rio also participates so he can hear the stride, ragtime and zydeco (from southern Louisiana.)
When festival cofounder Brenner writes boogie woogie music, he lets his mind travel to what catches his interest. For example, the couple's elderly cat Tut used to traipse to the piano when Brenner started plinking the keys. Next came a cat-walk atop those keys. Naturally, Brenner's \"Tut's Boogie Woogie\" resulted.
Marcia Ball is a blues/boogie piano player and singer from the Texas/Louisiana border. Born in Orange, Texas, on March 20, 1949, Ball grew up across the state line in Vinton, Louisiana. She started playing piano at age five, learning at home from both her grandmother and aunt and from a teacher. Growing up, she heard New Orleans rhythm and blues artists such as Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, and Irma Thomas, and these artists have influenced her ever since.
While many the household name (James Brown and B.B. King to name a few) has rocked our creaky establishment with their unique brand of boogie and blues throughout the years, rising stars and touring musicians are always eager.
And if you ask us, jazz blues piano songs are some of the best kinds of tunes to play. This style of music originated in the Deep South in the 1860s and it continues to delight musicians of all levels and backgrounds today.
Listen to famous recordings of blues music and blues styles, like rock and jazz music. Listen to Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, and Roosevelt Sykes. This will help you to internalize blues music and rhythms.
After becoming familiar with the basics of piano blues seek out other musicians to play blues, jazz, and boogie-woogie. It is all about playing with feeling and soul. Learn to jam with others playing blues to help you become more proficient at playing the piano.
While the above tips are a great place to start your musical journey, nothing beats studying one-on-one with a private piano teacher. When you sign up for piano lessons, your teacher will instruct you on all the ins and outs of learning how to play blues piano. Whether you need help remembering piano basics or want to learn how to sing the blues along with your instrument, your lessons will cover it all. Sign up with us today to explore the wonderful world of blues piano!
It is worth checking out traditional boogie-woogie bass-lines, particularly for bassists and pianists. These usually have a simple 1 bar pattern constructed of arpeggiated or scalic patterns in quaver (8th note) pulse, which is then transposed depending on the chord required. Shuffle accompaniments are regularly heard in boogie-woogie music as well. Blue notes are also commonplace in boogie-woogie music, such as the flat 3, flat 7 and diminished 5th. This is common to the blues scale.
ROBERTS: The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll states that the term boogie derives from the jazz-based boogie-woogie, a piano style that featured a hot rhythm based on eight to the bar figures played with the left hand.
Mr. MYERS: The slang boogie-woogie most likely evolved from booger rooger(ph), a phrase first coined by Texas blues Blind Lemon Jefferson. Booger rooger referred to an old-fashioned rent party, or just a wild musical good time.
Mr. MYERS: This song was recorded in the 1928 by Clarence \"Pinetop\" Smith. Smith hailed from Alabama but settled in Chicago. For a time, \"Pinetop\" lived in the same rooming house as two other piano players: Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. All three men drove cabs for a living but they were serious musicians. And Pinetop showed the other two his timeless boogie-woogie.
Mr. MYERS: Two fisted boogie-woogie was all the rage by the late 1930s. Pinetop Smith had died of a gunshot wound in Chicago by then so the top boogie piano players were Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Kansas City's own, Pete Johnson.
Mr. JERRY LEE LEWIS (Singer): (Singing) My name is Jerry Lee Lewis, I come from Louisiana. I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano, doing mighty fine, I'm gonna make you shake it, I'll make you do it and make you do it until you break it, it's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way, Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day.
Mr. MYERS: Even before Jerry Lee and the dawning of rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie was shifting away from the piano to electric guitar. Scaling down was chugging wrist this to an even simpler, more repetitive style. The most famous boogie man of all time is John Lee Hooker, whose primal \"Boogie Chillen\" was a hit in the modern record label in 1948.
MYERS: Disco tunes like \"Boogie Nights\" and \"Boogie Oogie Oogie\" had little in common with the original boogie-woogie style. Still, boogie is now an essential part of our nation's great musical lexicon. It can be found in hard rock, country music, rock-a-billie, rhythm & blues and Texas swing.
The boogie-woogie piano style developed from a guitar technique used in mining, logging, and turpentine camps. The techn