You're welcome, David! It's certainly an important piece of jazz history, and I think the 12-bar blues can serve as an incredible canvas to work on all different eras of jazz, and many different styles of improvisation.
@@tomgiles1484 Blues is one ingredient. European classical music, French cabare-variete music, gypsy music, and German marches were other ingredients in early jazz.
Glad you're enjoying them! Totally, that's the goal :) want to provide the quickest and most efficient way to implement new material into your playing.
Noah, you help my songwriting and playing so much. I feel like i just had one of those galaxy brain moments when you said to keep the pinky where it’s at for messing around with blues riffs 🤯
Thank you for the tons of great info here, I love blues piano and am learning. You just gave me hours more of joyful practice ahead. Also it’s just entertaining to watch you play these so well. Thanks again!
This is it!! Wow! As soon as the video started I was like, that’s what I was looking for. I’ve been trying to frame my view to go from “I always wanted to learn how to…” to “how do I play…”. This helps to shift towards action and leads with curiosity rather just staying in fantasy of “I’ve always wanted to”. Thanks for this, Noah!
Those are excellent riffs I eared out years ago, and they are very useful, and Noel does a GREAT job explaining how to play them. He should then add the left hand voicing comp, and tying the licks together in longer phrases. Then, show variations in context, and how to take the same idea, playing “geometrically”, to extend the harmonic ‘alphabet’ into altered scale/chord phrases, such as the flat & sharp 9, etc.
Noah my name is Grant and I’ve come across your lessons and definitely will be tuning into them as often as possible…would there be a way you could demonstrate some Slow Blues Rhythms with Just a left hand chord with right hand improvising with licks and runs…haven’t seen any other teacher yet that has demonstrated this type of playing….Please respond to this when you get a chance…Thanks so much and look forward to seeing your lessons in this regard..❤🎹
Thank you very much for your explanations! If I might add something to the technique you're using in this video: one could also add the b note to the f minor pentatonic scale, making it an f minor blues scale. It adds a bit more blues/jazz feeling to the improvisation.
Cool lickes! And thank you for such a detailed explanation! I'm curious to know - how you find which note sequences (right-hand) sound "bluesy" and which not? Can you share any rules or patterns or any reference to read about?
Hey, it would be nice if you did courses exclusively on licks (just showing them with a pdf attached), like weissguitar has done with "51 galactic jazz licks" but for piano ! :)
I did enjoy it and practising them.thanx sadly I am only able to practice in short 20min periods so slowly absorb stuff.If I practice for longer I lose the feel of new stuff.Silly me.thanx again
Thanks Noah for the great tutorial, my 61 years old wrist is struggling with the trills (improving slowly) must confess I sometimes cheat by using thumb and third finger...
@@NoahKellman thanks Noah. Hey I ended up transcribing the introduction to the video as a challenge. Not sure why I did that, but glad I did as it got me t internalize the principle and to discover interesting voicings particularly the sense of movement from F#11 to F#5b9 Thanks again.🙏
@@NoahKellman yeah, grouping it into bars was a little tricky because of the rubato + my limited blues structure knowledge, but it helps checking myself when practicing in other keys
Thanks for this video....Is it relevant to try to work these licks in all keys...or it is applicable for F only? I mean can an excellent pianist as you are play these in all keys?
Great stuff , but please, please, turn off that 'background' music during your talking. It is distracting, annoying, interferes with the listening, and is irrelevant to your otherwise great tutorials. So please, again. Turn off that background stuff. It's unnecessary.
