Beginners blues/boogie/rock discussion

Sophia · 2024-05-29T17:17:55+00:00

I have always been fascinated by boogie woogie, but of course I am limited by my very limited piano skills 😃 However now that I'm in the second Alfred book,...

Sophia

Very nice! I have also started lesson 12 (I took a break from blues yesterday). So now I also really listened to your videos, instead of just saying ahhh 😃

WieWaldi, That was some very impressive playing! Yes, I know we can play that humpty dumpty left hand in our dreams now, but still. I will study your ending in more detail, because that's a lick Christian hasn't covered yet, believe it or not 😃

TC: I really love the "more and more spice". The first ending (C chord) I said "oh, yeah, I could think that up, it's boring enough" (NOT SAYING YOU WERE BORING! I'm saying I am lol). Then you added the "spice it up a little" (C7) and was so much nicer, but still a LITTLE bland. Then spicing up some more - "that's more like it!!!" (C9).

Of course then you went into the half steps and the sustain pedal and that's where I started drooling... now we're talking! Such exciting sounding combinations!

Again, thank you both so much much for taking the time to record those - it'll be awesome to finish my dull exercises with an actual exciting finish, rather than just lifting my hands "done" 🥰

TC3

Sophia Quite welcome!!! 😊😊😊

WieWaldi

Sophia I will study your ending in more detail, because that's a lick Christian hasn't covered yet, believe it or not 😃

The first ending (turnaround) is something you already know.
The second one is in Easy Blues Piano lesson 2. Wait for it.

I wanted just to demonstrate, the turnarounds work very well as ending. Just play them in time without hesitating and slow down while playing it.

Sophia

Well, I started lesson 12 for real now... it's so smooth, I like it! I also just now found out that he sent me the wrong book... I thought I purchased the bundle of his entire course... and I did. But instead of book 3, he sent me book 1, 2 and Easy Licks in C. I don't mind, I'll just buy volume 3 separately. WieWaldi, is this the course you are following?

The link to his playlist doesn't work so I just want to make sure. Then I'll get that as well 🙂

WieWaldi

I got this one: https://christianssheetmusic.com/products/blues-piano-for-beginners-iii-for-the-youtube-series-part-12

Yours looks like the stuff I am working on (Easy Blues Piano).
VOL.II definitely is what I am currently working on, I can confirm as the pdf starts with the same title page as in your picture. I can't tell about volume 1 + 3, as vol.1 doesn't have the title page in the pdf and I have not reached Volume 3, yet. (Yes - I am slow) But what your picture shows looks like the first 3 volumes of the Easy Course.

Can't tell anything about "Easy Licks in C", but it could be fitting to this video. Sometimes he sells sheet music and the video is not listed, you can find it only via a link in the sheet-music. Does it have such a link on the first page? (Don't share the link, here. If Christian only want to provide the video for the sheet music customers, let him)

poor Sophia 😢
looks like you are doomed to continue now 😁

Sophia

LOL! I know right??? If I spend the money... it means I must do it 😃 The Easy Licks in C has this cover:

I'm sure bundling that book instead of the 3rd part of the course was a mistake, but that's okay. I purchased it now and also the Easy Blues course. Now I have no excuse anymore not to continue (not that I wanted one) 🤩

Edit: I also wanted to add how much I enjoy this course! I completely forgot to mention that. I wanted to learn boogie woogie a long time ago, but any time I went into a Youtube tutorial, they would encourage to practise a boring left hand over and over and over for hours, days, weeks, months, non stop. Well, I'm not a factory worker... I like to make music. Practising is fine, but not like that! Sit in front of the TV and let my left hand play play play mindlessly. Besides, if I really did that, I think the people around me would quickly call some men in white coats!

So I appreciate this course. Christian provides the right amount of difficulty and it is never boring. He deserves some money for sure 😊 And thank you WieWaldi for mentioning this course, way back when, in another forum even!

WieWaldi

Easy Blues Piano lesson 7 is huge...
Maybe not particular hard, or maybe it is...?
It is at least not technically challenging. It is just to have a LH chord progression with 16 chords. 15(!) of them are all entirely different. Only the C triad is on bar 1 and 8, that's it.
I have the feeling this will never reach my muscle memory, nor can my brain somehow remember it. I can play em very slowly by read-playing, just feels not fluid in any sense.

Sophia

Oh that's so interesting! I actually feel the same about my lesson 12. I'm enjoying the "riffs in C". But I'm only 1/3 in and he already introduced two left hand patterns, two riff variations and five licks. I just can't remember it all, as soon as I add a new one to my memory, I forget three old patterns. I might have to cave and use the sheet music, record it in stages, or simplify the lesson.

Pallas

Sophia I'm not doing exams. I was trying to figure out which books to buy because my teacher asked. And people have been helpful and I've enjoyed the conversation. Feel free to join in if you want to. You're certainly welcome to.

WieWaldi

Sophia I might have to cave and use the sheet music, record it in stages, or simplify the lesson.

This! This is why I started to make cheat sheets for some lessons. Come on, LH is the same inside each lesson, no need to print it everywhere. In most cases it is baked into muscle memory, anyway.
And for recording, I often don't do the first and maybe the second lick, because they are only warmup licks (like a scale). Or a stripdown version of the next lick.

I would not call it simplifing the lesson, if I leave away the easy (warmup) parts. Recording in stages? Possible, but that takes away the fun.

WieWaldi

Pallas I have the impression, you accidentally landed in the wrong thread. At least I don't get the context, here.

Sophia

Yeah, I could definitely never do exams. Nor perform in public! You score a lot higher on the "brave" scale than me. I wish you wisdom in your decision 💝 I will follow your thread with interest!

Sophia

Case closed 😊 so to go back to blues discussion:

WieWaldi Come on, LH is the same inside each lesson, no need to print it everywhere.

Exactly. He prints the entire 12 bars, or in the case of lesson 12, he even writes out a variation of one note difference - but that uses an entire two lines up.

I still practise with the sheet for now, but I am already having to turn the page twice and I'm only one third into the lesson. I can't wait for your future cheat sheets - maybe I'll create one for this lesson.

How did you do it? Screenshot one bar of each lick and place them all on a single canvas?

Pallas

WieWaldi There was a comment mentioning me by name that has been edited and now my post no longer has obvious context. 🤷

WieWaldi

Pallas No worries. happens. I was just thinking you wanted to post in a thread where people are talking about books for exams. (And they probably won't find your comment, here)

Pallas

WieWaldi Again, my response is in this thread because I was specifically mentioned here in this thread. My comment no longer makes sense because that post was edited. Everyone in the other thread already knows what's in that thread. It seems to me that this is case closed.

WieWaldi

Sophia How did you do it? Screenshot one bar of each lick and place them all on a single canvas?

Musescore 4.0

Sophia

Omg, I suddenly feel like a complete

Thank you!

Nightowl

Sophia I'm actually the resident dinosaur, but it's good to know you're not a wizard in all areas - that could give the rest of us mere mortals a complex! 😁

WieWaldi

With musescore it costs indeed a lot of time to put everything onto one single page...

But the original was 7 pages in total - quite impossible to play to the sheet-music without losing the rhythm because of turning pages.

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