Excellent lesson! I eagerly anticipate as many of these as you care to post. If you haven’t already, some tips on tremolo in the blues context would be great!
Thanks! Still figuring what i want to do next. For tremolos, I don't know if I have much tips, other than 'fake it til you make it'! The more you do it, then better they'll get. Tips for tremolos in a blues context ....hmm.... try doing these sliding rolls into trills. A little sliding in tremolos goes a long way to making them sound fuller
Thanks again Ethan. I really enjoy seeing you demonstrate finger technique. The ones you are showing here are not intuitive to me. As you said, it's tricky but that's what learning a new pattern is about. Thanks again
Very glad to hear it's giving you something new to play around with ! Just what I'm hoping for 🙂 Piano is funny in that a move can be so tricky and counter-intuitive, but then, once it's unlocked under your fingers it becomes so natural that you can't even remember what was difficult about it in the first place.
Great lesson! I wonder if Henry Brown's "Eastern Chimes Blues" and Johnson's "Kind Babe Blues" had originated from any floating blues tune that was familiar to musicians in the St Louis area back then. They're not too different. It's great to listen to the piano part of this Stump Johnson piece, without interference of singing and trumpet like in the original disc.
I love the lyrics in this tune so much ("I left my mother babe, why can't I leave you"), and Baby Jay rules, but I definitely know what you mean. It's nice to be able to focus on just the accompaniment, which is fully a world unto itself. To my ear, the piano accompaniment styles of Stump Johnson , Henry Brown and even Lonnie Johnson, points to a shared development of a St. Louis piano sound more than a singular floating blues tune as the source. Whether it's Eastern Chimes Blues, Kind Babe, Snitcher's Blues, the amazing Have Mercy Blues, etc etc etc..... Though perhaps we're saying the same thing, just in different ways.
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Great video. It also mimics a guitar player sliding up to a note. Great post.
Very cool 😎 I’m going to have fun with this 😎
Great tutorial on a great piece of piano blues. Thanks.
Sounds wonderful, I love these sounds, so atmospheric of the era, I’ll give it a go!
Really hope you do , Stanley! And yes, there's just something about that St. Louis piano sound....
Another great instructional video Ethan! Thank you!
Thanks! Glad you dig it !
Great lesson ! Great music ! Thanks ! keep up the GOOD work ! Martin
Excellent lesson! I eagerly anticipate as many of these as you care to post. If you haven’t already, some tips on tremolo in the blues context would be great!
Thanks! Still figuring what i want to do next. For tremolos, I don't know if I have much tips, other than 'fake it til you make it'! The more you do it, then better they'll get. Tips for tremolos in a blues context ....hmm.... try doing these sliding rolls into trills. A little sliding in tremolos goes a long way to making them sound fuller
Tom Waits did this all the time. I listened how to do it so much but never could get it quite like he plays in new coat of paint. Thanks!
Glad this helped!!
That is just what I needed to get the rolls smoothly in the I - IV - V chords.
Thank you so much, Ethan.
Wonderful!
Right on- good stuff.
Thanks as always, Gabriel! Really appreciate your engagement :)
Thanks again Ethan. I really enjoy seeing you demonstrate finger technique. The ones you are showing here are not intuitive to me. As you said, it's tricky but that's what learning a new pattern is about. Thanks again
Very glad to hear it's giving you something new to play around with ! Just what I'm hoping for 🙂 Piano is funny in that a move can be so tricky and counter-intuitive, but then, once it's unlocked under your fingers it becomes so natural that you can't even remember what was difficult about it in the first place.
So beautiful!
Thanks!!
Yes question! If I’m in St Louis can I get a private lesson? 😁
Great lesson! I wonder if Henry Brown's "Eastern Chimes Blues" and Johnson's "Kind Babe Blues" had originated from any floating blues tune that was familiar to musicians in the St Louis area back then. They're not too different. It's great to listen to the piano part of this Stump Johnson piece, without interference of singing and trumpet like in the original disc.
I love the lyrics in this tune so much ("I left my mother babe, why can't I leave you"), and Baby Jay rules, but I definitely know what you mean. It's nice to be able to focus on just the accompaniment, which is fully a world unto itself.
To my ear, the piano accompaniment styles of Stump Johnson , Henry Brown and even Lonnie Johnson, points to a shared development of a St. Louis piano sound more than a singular floating blues tune as the source. Whether it's Eastern Chimes Blues, Kind Babe, Snitcher's Blues, the amazing Have Mercy Blues, etc etc etc..... Though perhaps we're saying the same thing, just in different ways.
@@EthanLeinwand That's very interesting!