Hi, my name is Davell Crawford and I'm here for Sonic Junction. Over the course of the year I will be teaching you different piano styles ranging from Blues, Gospel, New Orleans and Jazz improvisation. Today we will start this first lesson off with the blues. It's a shuffle pattern that will start forming a strong foundation of your left hand and your right hand rhythm technique, which is a very important factor in learning the blues and roots music as a whole. We will learn the shuffle with the great Jimmy Reed tune Baby, What You Want Me To Do.
After you learn the left hand pattern, please practice it with my run-through of Baby, What You Want Me To Do until you can play it without looking at the keyboard. A strong left hand is the hallmark of all the great New Orleans and Chicago blues piano players and we want you to start building your foundation.
Oh, and please invest in a little metronome!!!
Et ils sont partis!
Davell
Loop 0:32 Run-Through of Baby What You Want Me To Do
Got me runnin'
Got me hidin'
Got me run hide hide runnin'
Anyway you want to let it roll
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Got me doin' what you want me
Baby what you want me to do
Goin' up
Goin' down
Goin' up down down up
Anyway you want to let it roll
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Got me doin' what you want me
Baby what you want me to do
Got me peepin'
Got me hidin'
Got me peep hide hide peepin'
Anyway you want to let it roll
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Got me doin' what you want me
Baby what you want me to do
Loop 4:02 Breakdown of Left Hand Shuffle
Loop 5:04 Practice Loop of Left Hand Shuffle
Loop 5:35 Lick of the Song and Shuffle Variations
Loop 7:08 Closing Thoughts
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