Piano Lessons

I’ve been a musician for most of my life, having purchased my very first guitar way back in 1956. In 1967 I went on the road with my first Rock an Roll band the “Forbidden Fruit”. Over the years I played with several bands right through to 2006 when I finally called it a day, [...]

BOOGIE WOOGIE MUSIC OTHER INTERESTING WEB-SITES Both Hands Like The Devil by Nonjohn Nonjohn has recordings for sale please click Abi Wallenstein Algorithmic Boogie Generator Al Trautman Profile and contact information for the pianist/vocalist who plays two-handed Louisiana flavored boogie-woogie Alex Zwingenberger Alex’s offical site Andreas Busch The boogie woogie web-site of Andreas Busch is [...]

Developing Left Hand Boogie Bass If you want to get your left hand playing a piano boogie bass pattern as shown in this video, you really need to slow things down to start. The key here is to get the pattern to feel good rhythmically and to not try to play it as fast as [...]

http://www.lessonrating.com. Left Hand Boogie Bass Pattern To Use In any Blues Song If you want to get your left hand playing a piano boogie bass pattern as shown in this video, you really need to slow things down to start. The key here is to get the pattern to feel good rhythmically and to not [...]

It’s just so frustrating to work your heart out trying to practice and learn piano… and still not play a familiar song or play without mistakes. What’s wrong? And better yet… how do you fix it? It starts with one important bit of knowledge… TRADITIONAL METHOD: All about Reading Music. YOU CAN ONLY PLAY AS [...]

The author did a great job of keeping this book simple and explaining things very well. Topics covered: Left Hand Bass Lines including Jerry Lee, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry styles. Right Hand – Eighths, Glissando, Crushed Notes (I think this is also called slip notes), Rolls, Note Clusters, and Comping. Soloing – [...]

This book is a timely resource for anyone who has to deal with chord symbols–such as is found on rhythm charts and lead sheets– and wants to know how to play them on the piano or keyboard. It even could help an arranger who has landed on a chord he likes but doesn’t know what [...]

 Rock and roll piano springs from many different styles. On the surface the early styles just seemed to be blues playing at a high speed, but a closer look reveals a lot more under the surface. Rock and roll piano is an amalgam of many styles as is jazz or classical playing. One of [...]

Ask the average piano teacher how to become a wealthy piano teacher and you’ll probably hear “you can’t” for an answer. The general consensus is that teaching piano is a labor of love that happens to also pay the bills, but not much more. But that’s not true. I know how to become a wealthy [...]