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Boogie Woogie Basics for Piano

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Description: In this lesson we're going to be discussing the fundamentals, the building block basics of boogie woogie style. So what I just played for you in the intro is something that in the end, you're gonna be able to play all the component pieces of what I just did. So the lesson is going to start out with a basic overview, review for some of you of the fundamental structure. So it's really just the 12 bar blues structure, right. And there's three inherent chords in that structure, the one chord, the four chord and the five chord. We're going to talk about the different basslines in the left hand and I'm gonna be playing, we're gonna talk about what eight to the bar means you've maybe heard eight to the bar in reference to boogie woogie music.So we'll explore some left hand basslines, we'll explore some right hand, all the chords, all the inversions, some comping exercises, some exercises using the metronome, which you heard me just play with that on purpose. And the reason I did that played the intro with the metronome is because I'm going to be utilizing the metronome quite a bit in these lessons, giving you some things to practice showing you demonstrating, you know, the different ways that you can work with the metronome, putting it on the quarter note, putting on the eighth note, things like that.It's a really, really valuable tool tool for practicing, especially when so much of what we're trying to do right now is established that groove that boogie woogie groove, making the right hand and the left hand sort of an entire band when they work together. So we'll talk about that putting our hands together, getting that groove down using the metronome, we'll talk about some of the right hand riffs that I was doing, we're gonna give you a bunch of right hand riffs to practice.And we'll talk about transposing that riff, you know, from C7, F7, G7. And, of course, all the other keys you're gonna want to play in, we're just gonna play and see for this lesson, just for demonstration purposes, we
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