How to Play Blues Piano by Ear

Todd Lowry: Cómo tocar el piano blues de oído.

No music reading required!

Whether you're a beginner, an amateur, a professional, or a teacher, you can develop the skills essential for a blues stylistic performance with this excellent step-by-step guide. The hands-on instruction presented includesinformation on basic chords and patterns, improvisation, blues styles and genres, licks and playing techniques, and much more. Historical information on the roots of blues piano music is presented, along with a list of notableblues pianists. It's all here in a single indispensable volume, along with demonstration audio tracks available online.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
1. What is blues piano?
2. What is playing by ear?
3. Mental approach to playing by ear
4. Posture, hand position, & finger numbers
5. How to practice
6. The musical alphabet & the piano keyboard
7. Basic chords
8. The 12-bar blues progression
9. The basic left-hand pattern
10. Right-hand improvisation using the blues scales
11. Blues in G
12. Special blues techniques
13. Straight-eighth-note blues
14. Early rock-and-roll
15. Gospel blues
16. Boogie woogie
17. Other blues styles
18. Using tritones
19. Blues intros & endings
20. Once more, with feeling
21. Playing in a blues band
22. Improvisation ideas

Play-along tracks
Appendix I. A brief history of blues piano
Appendix II. Blues piano players