I guess you're right, I honestly don't remember! It's been... well... quite a few decades ago 
Beginners blues/boogie/rock discussion
Nightowl Ok, maybe I'm the odd man out here, regarding this video, and this type of piano playing.
I'm easily bored with three chords. Maybe from years of fronting my blues band, or the few months I played lead guitar in a traditional country band, (three chords and the truth, not modern country, which isn't really country). At least with blues and country, you have melody and lyrics to add depth and variety, and to tell a story.
To me, the players in this video are good at what they do, but I'm not impressed by what they do. The fact that they can chat and goof around while playing, demonstrates that it's mostly muscle memory; like knowing where the bathroom light switch is in a house you've lived in for a while. I don't find this to be very musical, or even interesting, with those left hand calisthenics, and the right hand choosing from a cliched bag of tricks, root+7, 3rd+octave, 5th+octave, dom7 chords and their inversions, mechanical runs using dom7 scale, blues scale, and pentatonic, and all of the interchangeable bits and phrases, over and over. No dynamics, no melodic development, same tempo, for the entire video, and more of the same on Ladyva's other YT clips. I think this type of piano playing would easily be replicated by Artificial Intelligence, perhaps even improved upon.
If I built my career on playing this type of music, I'd probably go mad. Be careful what you wish for.
I have another question for you blues gurus: in the sheet music of lesson 5, the turnaround is shown AFTER the 12 bars (so it ends with C7 C7 and then it shows the sequence). I'm a little confused - should it be played instead of bar 11 and 12, or after?
Thanks! I watched the video too but he isn't very clear on it... he seems to enjoy teaching in smaller segments. I would imagine that at some point he'll put the whole thing together for us 
Sophia OK, I think bars 11 & 12 are just a transcript of what he plays at 10:20 ff. There should probably be an end repeat after that on the sheet music. I think the bars that look like measures 13 & 14 are just meant to be a separate thing, a new turnaround you could use over bars 11 & 12. Does that make sense?
Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.
Ok, I'll bite. I don't have the sheet music, but a 12 bar blues is a 12 bar blues. A turnaround is a way to keep the song going, like reintroducing the tune, usually so another player can solo. Anyway, on a 12 bar blues, using this for an example, C7 C7 C7 C7 F7 F7 C7 C7 G7 F7 C7 C7, a standard turnaround would take the place of the last bar of C7. So, still a 12 bar blues. Sometimes, the last 2 bars act as a turnaround, with maybe something like a chord change every 2 beats - C7 Am7 Dm7 G7, then back to the beginning. Or, you might have: C7 Eb7 Ab7 G7. Or, C7 Eb7 Dm7 Db7, then back to the beginning. There are lots of ways to make your way back to the head (that's jazz-speak for the start ;-), or to break up the progression, keep it going, or to offer a path to more tonal variety, which you hear in lots of jazz type blues tunes. Hope this helps.
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Sophia Sorry - I didn't buy his 1st patch of sheet music. From lesson 4-7 I made them up by my own (but bought the consecutive ones, because I was too lazy after this).
Let me share it for you: (Don't get confused by 12/4 time signature, the swing is baked in)
Sophia should it be played instead of bar 11 and 12, or after?
Instead of bar 11 and 12 - exactly as in my sheet music. The page is one complete 12-bar sequence.
btw: you are really fast in learning this! chapeau 
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PianoMonk Hope this helps.
Always, thank you! You too, WieWaldi. This is what his sheet music shows:
It starts with bar 10, 11 and 12 (the rest is on the previous page):
And after that it shows the turn around.
TC3 I think the bars that look like measures 13 & 14 are just meant to be a separate thing, a new turnaround you could use over bars 11 & 12. Does that make sense?
Yes, I think he just forgot the double bar just before that 
Forget what I said in the last post. Doesn't make any sense now.
I am confused with his sheet music. Let's call his version:
- top line = bar 8 + 9 + 10
- bottom line = bar 11 + 12
Then bar 9+10 are C7 (makes no sense as 9+10 are normally G7+F7)
And bar 8 is F7, but played lower than C7. (in his tutorial, C7 is the lowest chord, while F/G7 are a few key higher).
Nah - do yourself a favor and stick to my version. It works and it sounds, believe me.
Another thing - you will find in my sheet music more notes than in his one. I didn't invent them. Just looked at his fingers.
Haha yeah I guess we'll just go by what @PianoMonk said - in words even I can understand. A 12 bar blues is a 12 bar blues. Not 14. Can't argue that
Btw: my sheet music is exactly what you hear from 2:00 to 2:36 in this old video:
I just came across this neat article:
https://fathertheo.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/the-twelve-bar-thirteen-bar-fourteen-bar-blues/
Enthusiastic but mediocre amateur.
Just when I thought I was close to a pro beginner, you reduced me to bloody beginner again. Not fair! 
