Blues Piano Licks : Blues Piano Advanced Lick Ten

How to play the tenth advanced blues piano lick, including a step-by-step demonstration; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by professional composer and pianist Jonathan Wilson.

Expert: chilkari
Bio: Jonathon Wilson has been a professional composer and pianist for over twenty years. His work spans a number of genres, from jazz to new age to trance.

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[SPARKLINGSERVICE]

I read this and just had to comment.

Dr John, short tubby fingers, Elton John short stubby fingers, Billy Joel, short stubby fingers.

Sometimes a 2 legged dog can run

[manuelergcruz]

It might look easy for pianists who has formal training, but what counts here is the "feel of the blues." You can hit those notes 100% but it takes a lot of experience to get the feel of a blues piano player.

[StraighAndProud]

WHAT!!??!? THAT IS EASY! All i ever play is chords with an octave pinky to close it! in my right and left is a follow up to finish the arpegio! All this is, is an arpegio! I thought after 30licks there would be somthing cool! :(

[nycolombiano611]

press 0:15 again and again and lmyo :DDD

[UKpiano]

ever thought about using both hands to do the lick ;)

[SnowTheDarkSidee]

1:14 to skip speaking

[aluga1234]

Thank you !

[abzversion3]

the frick is that noise at 0:15 seconds?!?! XD

[jambangmedia]

sempoi gile bro, sori le, aku org kampung tapi tak pandai cakap omputih, apepun terima kasih le...

[phionahchin2000]

Nice! BTW – you can learn to play this song in half the time with new gadget that reads MIDI files.

Google “Gizmag and PianoMaestro”

[Pyrobolimenos1988]

The most difficult lick from the series even for me(I can reach from C to G,more than one and a half octave...)....But I finally did it....It took me around 3 hours to finish playing all the licks,another 5-6 hours to play them up to speed and three whole MONTHS to combine them in the most sufficient way(for me at least....).....Thank you for helping me to take my first step in this amazing music world called blues.......Really man,even your blah-blah is sometimes usefull.....many thanks!!!!!

[TheatreMary]

Probably stating the really obvious here (sorry if you think I am), but if, like me, you really do have small hands and/or short fingers, you could knock off the bottom note of each chord and add it in an octave higher so the chords become:

C-E-Bb-C (C7) and Eb-f-A-C(F7)

You're still getting the Blues/7th sound - just a different inversion of it that's all. It will not sound exactly the same as above but will come close if you're struggling :-)