Remarkable rendition of a jazz standard by young piano prodigy Georgie Dave. This version was developed by Professor Doug McKenzie. After 2 1/2 years of music instruction at a college in his hometown, Georgie shows his unusual talent in a studio jazz session accompanied by professional musicians: bass by Edwin Proaño (his ensemble professor), and drums byFidel Vargas (professional drummer).

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I just threw together some ideas that I use for playing boogie woogie. Maybe someone will learn something.

Now Matthew teaches lessons online through SKYPE! see www.boogiewoogiekid.com for details. Boogie Woogie Performing Artist Matthew Ball aka The Boogie Woogie Kid talks boogie woogie with a group of Ann Arbor area music educators, revealing some helpful insights into how the left hand functions in boogie & blues music. Matthew has published two instructional books available through Amazon.com and www.boogiewoogiekid.com on the art-forms of boogie woogie & blues: “The Art of Boogie-Woogie” and “Blues Preludes.”

Jazz, Ray Brown-bass, Benny Green-piano, Greg Hutchinson-drums

– Part 3-A: A step-by-step lesson on how to play the left-hand pattern from my instructional piano piece called “PianoDrumFunk”. — See Part One for the original tune, Part Two for the same tune in slow-motion. — This left-hand pattern creates a groove, a danceable rhythm, over which you can improvise with your right hand. — Later lessons explain (in-depth) how to do your own improvisation over left-hand part.

How to make C Major, C minor, C diminished & C Augmented chords & corresponding flashcards. Part 2 will demonstrate how to practice in blocked & arpeggiated form.

I improvised an E flat blues based on riffs from Jamie Cullum solos.

Hey, I’m sure many of you have heard of David Sprunger. He is an online blues piano teacher and owns his own site with some great blues riffs on it. Check it out: www.playpianotoday.com At the beginning of his videos there is always a piano intro and in this intro is this set of riffs. I have “sort of” worked it out and here is my rendition of the riffs in that intro. *Edit* Sorry for the poor camera angle and nervous speaking; I wasn’t very experienced back then! Hope this video helps Ben

New lesson from www.playbluespiano.com In this lesson you will learn 15 cool Blues licks. Each lick is presented with minimal talking, so you can get right into learning and applying these licks into your own playing!