Piano With Willie: Learn 15 Blues Licks

Name: Piano With Willie: Learn 15 Blues Licks
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Learn 15 blues licks on the piano that you can play over a 12 bar blues!

Last updated 1/2018

English

What you'll learn

3 sections • 20 lectures • 1h 2m total length

Course Introduction1:54
Lick 12:50
Lick 22:29
Lick 34:05
Lick 44:02
Lick 53:11
Lick 63:54
Lick 72:26
Master lick 7 as a chordal pattern with notes C, F#, G, and C played together as an accent, then move it across the blues form for improvisation using octaves.
Lick 85:58
Learn a New Orleans blues lick built on an F dominant seventh chord, transpose it to different keys, and adapt the left-hand pattern to fit C, G, and F chords.
Lick 92:07
Lick 103:49
Learn lick 10 in blues piano by breaking it down slowly, practicing the right hand with the band, and moving between C and G chords across a two-measure lick.
Lick 113:28
Explore lick 11 from the blues scale, tracing F sharp, C, and E-flat while coordinating hands; try octaves with C and E-flat for color and extended blues licks over chords.
Lick 123:56
Lick 133:40
Lick 143:44
Lick 153:27
Wrap Up5:27

You will need a piano or keyboard in order to take this course.
The ability to read music is helpful, but not necessary.
Most of all...have the patience and willingness to practice. It doesn't happen overnight!
Keyboard, piano or organ, these techniques work for all keyboard instruments.
Be able to play some basics scales and know how to form basic chords.

Ready to add 15 cool Blues licks to your playing?

In this course each lick is presented with minimal talking, so you can get right into learning and applying these licks into your own playing!

Learning licks is a great way to jump start your improvisation skills.
A lick is like a word or short phrase. The more words and phrases we learn...the more we can say!
Each of these 15 licks can be combined and manipulated to form literally hundreds of new licks.

How do I use these licks?

The Blues is one of the most popular musical forms. Thousands of rock, pop, jazz and other songs use elements of the blues. By learning these 15 licks, you'll know how to improvise over any 12-bar blues, but also songs in many other styles as well! The first few licks are easier licks that you can master quickly. The later licks are filled with cool techniques like triplet patterns and double-stops.

These licks give you an authentic blues sound so you sound like a pro right away. Each lick is meticulously written out with proper fingering notated to make it easier to learn the right technique the first time around. You'll also learn how to play each one of these licks over a shuffle groove. Don't worry, they work over many different types of grooves, but the shuffle groove let's you perform these licks without needing a band. It's a great way to create your own blues improvisation right away.

If you're interested in learning how to improvise, these 15 licks won't disappoint!

I'll see you inside the course!

~Willie

Anyone who wants to learn how to improvise.
Students looking for an authentic blues sound.
Students who want a clear foundation of licks to build their own repertoire of runs and fills.
Written for piano players but these licks work for all instruments.