Blues Piano - Where Do I Begin?

John Watson walks you through the steps to playing the twelve-bar blues on the piano. #piano #pianotutorial #blues #howtoplaytheblues 00:00 Blues piano Intro 00:16 Introduction 00:32 What you will learn in this video 00:55 The chords in Roman numerals 01:36 Blues chords in C 02:05 The importance of the left hand 02:44 Simple broken chord bass line 03:59 Adding the 6th for variation 04:48 Using 8th notes to add swing 05:41 Using a passing note to avoid a repeated note 06:06 Adding another 8th note after the 2nd beat 07:10 Alternative pattern using an octave note 08:02 Implying notes with rests 09:38 Right hand chords 09:54 Explaining the dominant 7th chord 11:19 Adding the chords to a bass line 11:58 How to voice the chords (smoother transitions) 13:54 Playing the new chord positions with a bass line 14:29 Playing like Fats Domino (triplets) 15:00 Right hand triplets over a bass line 15:53 Right hand soloing introduction 17:05 The big B. B. King lesson 17:35 Soloing with just 2 notes (A and C) 18:47 Adding another note to solo (G) 20:16 Introducing the flattened 3rd (Eb) 20:58 Adding the flattened 3rd to your solo 22:00 Using the D as a passing note 22:24 Soloing with all 5 notes 23:00 Explain the pentatonic scale we used 23:56 Varying the chords of the 12-bar blues 25:04 Soloing using the extra chord changes 25:40 Getting around clashing notes between the chords and melody https://johnpianoman.co.uk/