Blues Piano Improvisation 101

If you love Blues piano, this is the course for you. In this course, we are going to spend 8 weeks covering different blues styles and progressions. I’ll show you how to improvise over each style and give you the tricks that I use to effectively get that “grit” and blues piano player sound. Even though this is a 101 course, I would suggest that you have at least (1) year of study under your belt before beginning this class or you’ve successfully completed the Beginning Jazz/Blues Improvisation course.

In this lesson we are going to cover the triplet feel along with several licks that will teach you how to add accents to your playing. You'll also learn how to 'link up' the left and right hands to play together.

In this lesson you'll learn about different blues progressions from basic to more advanced jazz/blues progressions. You'll also learn several basslines and licks to use over these progressions.

Now we are going to put together all that we have learned so far to create a full 12-bar blues arrangement along with a stride-style accompaniment.

In this lesson we will work on "walk ups" and how to transition between chords.

Learn a bluesy song in a Floyd Cramer, country-type piano style.

In this lesson we are going to combine techniques from previous lessons in this course to create our own 12-bar blues progression.

In this last lesson we will wrap up with some improvisation tips for the slow bluesy progression we covered earlier.