Piano Blues Master – Mastering Eb Blues

The Easiest and Most Effective Blues Piano Method Ever Created

What you’ll learn
Students will be able to play a blues solo in E-flat
Students will be able to improvise a bass-line in E-flat
Students will be able to combine a solo with an improvised bass line in E-flat
Students will know key musical terms related to the blues.
Requirements
Students may wish to take “Piano Blues Master – Getting Started.” For students with no playing background, we recommend you take that course first!
Students who have some familiarity with the piano may begin at this course, as there is a review of previously learned concepts included.
Description
This series is the ultimate blues mastery method for the piano. Going far beyond “licks” and “grooves,” the Piano Blues Master series takes you deep into the fundamentals of blues and piano technique. You’ll be learning so gradually that you’ll be amazed what you can do by the end!In our “Getting Started” course, we introduced students to the power of the black keys. With a simple three-note bass line in the left hand, and the freedom to play any note on the black keys with the right hand, you can play an exciting, authentic-sounding blues in the key of E-flat. Instead of playing formulas, you’re actually improvising, making up music on the spot, and it sounds good!In “Mastering Eb Blues” we take you a lot farther. You’ll learn four new bass lines: The 1-3-5, the 1-#4-5, the 1-3-#4-5 and the 1-2-3-5. The best part is: You can solo over each of these bass lines just like you did over your first bass line, so by learning just a little, you’ll sound a lot more professional!Once you know five bass lines, you can combine them into original new bass lines. That’s right, you’re making up bass lines on the spot! And when you add a solo on the black keys, you’re improvising in two hands at once.Impossible? Too hard? You’ll see how easy it can be to get this kind of mastery in our E-flat course. Best of all, you’ll be set to go even farther in our next set of courses.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What You Should Know

Section 2: A New Bassline

Lecture 3 The Single Note Bass Line

Lecture 4 Introducing the 1-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 5 A Closer Look At 1-3-5

Lecture 6 Adding Right Hand to 1-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 7 Start-Stop With 1-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 8 Color Notes with 1-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 9 Assignment: Play a 1-3-5 Blues

Section 3: “The Game” and the 1-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 10 The Game: 1-3-5

Lecture 11 Assignment: Win the Game!

Lecture 12 Adam Loses the Game

Lecture 13 Adding G to Your Color Notes

Section 4: The 1 #4 5 Bass Line

Lecture 14 Introducing the 1 #4 5 Bass Line

Lecture 15 The Sharp-Four

Lecture 16 Playing a 1-#4 5 Bass Line

Lecture 17 Assignment: Play a 1 #4 5 Bass Line

Lecture 18 Adding the Right Hand to 1 #4 5

Lecture 19 Assignment 2: Add the Right Hand Over 1 #4 5

Lecture 20 Color Notes With 1 #4 5

Section 5: The 1-3-#4-5 Bass Line

Lecture 21 Review of Three Bass Lines

Lecture 22 Left Hand Fingers

Lecture 23 Intro to 1-3-#4-5 Bass Line

Lecture 24 The 1-3-#4-5 Bass Line Never Stops

Lecture 25 Dealing With the Special Challenges of 1-3-#4-5

Lecture 26 The Notes of 1-3-#4-5

Lecture 27 Adding Right Hand to 1-3-#4-5

Lecture 28 Assignment One: Play a Steady 1-3-#4-5

Lecture 29 Assignment Two: Right Hand Over a 1-3-#4-5 Bass Line

Lecture 30 Color over a 1-3-#4-5 Bass Line

Section 6: The 1-2-3-5 Bass line

Lecture 31 Introduction to the 1-2-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 32 Notes of the 1-2-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 33 Assignment One: Play a Steady 1-2-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 34 Black Keys and 1-2-3-5

Lecture 35 Assignment Two: Solo over 1-2-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 36 Assignment Three: Color Over a 1-2-3-5 Bass Line

Lecture 37 For the Teacher: How is the 1-2-3-5 Bass Line the same as the other bass lines?

Section 7: A Review of the Five Bass Lines

Lecture 38 Review: The Five Bass Lines

Lecture 39 Assignment: Solo Over All Five Bass Lines

Section 8: Combined Bass Lines

Lecture 40 Intro to Combined Bass Lines

Lecture 41 How To Create A Bass Line

Lecture 42 More About Bass Lines

Lecture 43 Assignment One: Create a Bass Line

Lecture 44 Adding the Right Hand to a Combined / Improvised Bass Line

Lecture 45 Assignment Two: Solo Over an Improvised Bass Line

Lecture 46 Using Color Over an Improvised Bass Line

Section 9: Extra Stuff

Lecture 47 Other Bass Lines

Lecture 48 Other Color Notes

Lecture 49 What’s Next?

This course is for beginning pianists who want to be able to play a convincing blues in e-flat at the piano, and who want to be prepared with the information and skill to play the blues in every key. It’s also for teachers who want to teach blues improvisation to young and beginning learners.