We continue our exploration of gospel-style chord changes with a focus on chord substitutions for the final line of the 12 bar blues.

The gospel walk-down sequence can be applied in bar 8 of the 12 bar blues and serves as an alternative to the 1-3-6-2 progression.

We now switch our focus and attention to bars 7 and 8 of the 12 bar blues and we introduce some rich gospel-style chord changes.

Walk-ups add fluidity and complexity to our playing, making the transitions between chords smoother and more harmonically interesting.

Chromatic passing chords add tension, colour, and strengthen the sense of resolution when changing chords in the 12-bar blues progression.

We explore a fill technique using descending 4th intervals which is an alternative to the suspended triad fill that we explored previously.

In this lesson, we explore triad-based space fillers and how to combine our left and right hands whilst maintaining a steady 12/8 pulse.

In this module we focus on the 12/8 pulse and common space fillers to create an engaging and interesting slow blues piano performance.

In this lesson we continue our exploration of warm up drills and we voice the primary chords of the blues with the 9th chord extension.

We introduce the basic blues form in C and cover a series of drills to help you become familiar with triad and 7th chord inversions.