Coltrane changes, also known as the ‘Major Third Tonic relationship’ is a harmonic movement where instead of one tonic center, we have 3.
You can use the specific bassline demonstrated for playing solo piano, learning different blues heads, and for practising improvised solos.
We will explore some of the more advanced applications, and how you can add this to your playing right now to sound like a jazz piano pro.
Steve’s own composition; The Duwamish River empties into the Puget Sound – the birthplace of the city of Seattle – a city that Steve dearly loves.
The left-hand is the bass player and drummer in a band, both rolled into one. It keeps the beat, it plays the bass line, and it establishes the groove.
If you’re looking at this course, there’s a good chance it’s because you’ve heard boogie-woogie, and it immediately lit up something inside you. Welcome.
Using “Boogie-Woogie Prayer” we’ll put together all of the boogie-woogie elements: basslines, licks, slurs, trills, slide-offs, and turnarounds.
We’ll examine the right-hand riffs and licks that make the boogie-woogie style so infectious. We will also explore the blues and pentatonic scales.
We’ll learn some basic right-hand chord voicings and rhythms, and some specific riffs you can use in many places when playing boogie-woogie.
The left-hand is the foundation of the driving rhythm, over which the right-hand can… well… dance! Let’s look at the characteristics of the style.
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