❤Love the Blues style 🎹 keep the lessons coming in all regards to great blues songs as well as some instruction for me to learn some slow blues with one left hand chord with right hand licks and runs…thanks Grant 👍
Okay. I'll make one some time next month if I can't get to it right away. To start, just practice left hand alone ( no right hand. til it's solid., automatic. ) You won't be able to be free with your right hand til your left is solid and auto magic. just 1 2 3 4. Quarter notes. Bang Bang Bang Bang "four on the floor", like a jazz guitarist in a big band would play, in the 40's, 50's. C E G Bb or C E Bb or just C and Bb then F A C Eb for f7 then G B D F for G7 if you want to practice like you're playing with a band with a bass player you can try this. E Bb (that's the 3rd and 7th of C7) then play Eb and above it, A (that's the 7th and 3rd of F7) Try it . You'll notice that the skeletal, pared down voicing of the chord, just the 3rd and 7th is enough to define the chord. And the notes are so close to each other that it makes it easy to go from one chord to another. Minimum movement. A key element for good "comping" e.g. chording. I'll demonstrate it for you when I have the chance.
yeah baby. nice pattern. a little worn out, but it's the really deally. Persian. my mother in law gave it to me. an artifact from her golden days as the golden daughter of a high powered Frankfurt lawyer before the big fall, his, hers, the whole country's , but we won't go into that.
STUNNING Mr. PIANO MAN MARK ❤🎹❤ Thank you very much. With this AWESOME tutorial you BRIGHTENED my day. Very transparent and inspirational. You are so right. THE LEFT HAND. So so important. A pretty difficult TASK which is needed to be achieved. GRACIAS BEST BEST WISHES from SPAIN. I ❤ the BLUES
Very nice to hear your appreciation of my music. ¡muchisimas gracias! from Frankfurt, via California.. Say hello to Denia if you are nearby. Tell her I miss her. mi suegra alemangna sold her house there, and we can't go there to stay for free anymore :(
"no baby. you da man, MT." "no no baby really. it's all about you. YOU da man Mark ." yeah, you right MT. it's all about me." thanks. sincerely, da Man
Hi Mark, love your style of blues, have listened so many times and every time I find something different I haven't heard before. Would be good if you put some more vids up, especially the " Driftin Blues" all the way through no stop with you singing.......love your voice it suits your style of Bluueess.......All the best from the UK
marktarmannpiano hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha SUBBA!!!!kdfutjdulyi;iufouytrd65terjdhgvfilyof976r76485ifvg................oh gee... dadda's troubled existence.....lounge lizard hell....Come on man...even I'm not going to be a professional musician when I grow up...I'm staying the fuck out a dat shit....haha...04:54 yeah mark...let the "nodding off" people absorb what you said..[chuckes....]..cause their the ones that 'care' the most...and that last part wasn't saYKasm...jajajajajajajajaja!!! poor dadda...jajjajajajaja...your sons aRe smart.....jajajaja how's tat for ya ego gweeddough?? naw...messin..wth the [[[HESSIAN]]] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAJAJAJAJA oh dear, what a racist...hessian troops....jaja...you hessian's got it commin after what ya race did...jaja..goofy goober!!!
Hi tony, I've posted the new version of driftin blues with 4 vocal verses it came out quite well ithink. thanks for the motivation to do it again . let me know what you think. Tony Fitz
hi chris sorry about the narrow focus i'll make another soon with the camera more appropriately placed there are two other driftin blues vids on my channel . thanks for the commentChris Horton
Hey, y'all. Just to clarify,you will only get the triplet feeling and the "right" emphasis on the 2 and 4 beats by listening to LOTS of blues, & playing along with the original GIANTS and MASTERS'of blues recordings. Then, you will internalize accents. Then, you Will be able to play them. If it's not deeeep inside you, it won't come out in your playing.
Omar Al-Nizamy for basic and boogie blues piano Memphis Slim and Pinetop Perkins. for jazz and blues with a funky gospel feeling Les McCann is the man. I have listened 1000's of times playing behind Lou Rawls on the "stormy monday" album with jazz standards, ballads and blues. for solo blues with vocals, Charles Brown, for very sophisticated blues and boogie solo piano and singer Willie Mabon is very inspiring. but hard to find.
Hello, Angeli, I have "come at it" from my own angle and direction. I listen to a few particular pianists, Les McCann specifically, along with all the great jazz pianists, I play along with the records, I rarely memorize other pianist "licks" though I am told I should. I have studied jazz harmony and piano technique, enough to expand my vocabulary whilst playing the blues, but not quite enough ( of the really hard work, like block chords) to be a "real jazz pianist" or be-bopper. I have, in the last 2 years, at age 59-61, found some previously untapped level of discipline, and have endeavored to improve my basic technique, directly as it applies to "burning", playing FAST, which one must be able do if one wishes to play jazz with other hight level musicians.. I was lucky to find, amongst the 100's of tutorials and offers of lessons on youtube, Dave Frank's "learn to burn" tutorial, and I've worked on it, on and off for 2 years. If you are interested in jazz piano, a beginner, intermediate or "sort of advanced" pro like me, you'll find his lessons extremely well focussed, organized so that they are easy to use in your daily practice. He taught at Berkelee, he has learnt and incorporated literally all the styles, from Errol Garner to Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett, and Herbie Hancock, into his own, and can delineate the essences of those styles for ya. The beginner's vids are very good, the basic elements of jazz harmony and application to chording and soloing. The " 15 stylistic elements for advanced solo jazz pianists" vid is awesome in the breadth (and quality) of its content. Thanks for the comment. Good luck with your playing. I will post some more blues soon. Not a lesson, Just me doing Stormy Monday and a few other tunes, solo.
the pattern is really basic. It's the same one i use on "drifting blues level 2" here's the link ua-cam.com/video/4T4x3PI1b9s/v-deo.htmlsi=X8NI3XbLQ9NePZ-b
Hey -mister -martins. How are the time concepts sinking into your playing? I'm bangjng my head again, against the insurmountably high wall of be bop criteria. bang ouch bang ouch. i should stick with the blues.
¡horale! Verdad. You don't need a lot of note, but you do need the feeling. I am not holding my breath waiting for the millions. I don't want to die. But it 's a nice thought. The 3 million dollar lesson.
I'm in Frankfurt, Germany. I haven't done Skype lessons, but I am willing to give it a go. You'd get a special introductory price for sure, due to my lack of experience in that regard. I'll be on the road for 2 weeks. If you want to try it.we can give a go and see how it works, and you can pay me by pay pal if it feels sastifactory. Feb. 3 or 4, or the next weekend after that if it suits your schedule better. 6 hour time difference to NY 9 hours to L.A. (It's 6:38 pm here now, and 9:38am in L.A. so we'd have to do it mornings 9-12 am your time if you're on the West Coast) give me your email address and i'll contact you via gmail and then delete it from this comment section
thanks van. i may do one with guitar. if i can find a band that can back me proper like. oi . hard to find innit? a band that can play a slow blues groove with swing and intensity. that's why i ended up playing solo piano. the only groove i can count on... sorry to report...is mine!!!
i play guitar too, so I can tell you why. Because C is a piano key. It's easier to play blues on piano in C or F or G. The fingers fall more naturally onto the pentatonic blues scale notes and the left hand parts also, much easier somehow than in A or E. Guitarists don't like C or D or G much and they bloody hate F. Barre chords (for the rhythm parts) are way too high on the neck in D an C, and in F the barre chord is on the first fret, making it really hard to do the basic stuff unless you have incredibly strong first finger "barre-ing" ability. I can play blues on piano in any key, even C# or F# but it takes time and work, because those (and A and E ) are trickier than C F G. try it . you'll see why in a second. Once you get comfortable you can play in E and A, but never quite as easily as in C. Clapton plays driftin blues in E and A because the open notes, all the open string notes in standard tuning E A D G B E are notes used in those keys...E and A...so guitarists can use the open positions to play the rhythm ( and fills and solo) parts. It's much easier to make blues music in A and E on guitar, so naturally, trained or untrained blues musicians would have used those keys. .E and A are the "easy keys" on the guitar. (and bass)..so... therefore........ If you're intent on playing in a band, with guitar players, yes, you had better learn everything in E and A or you're not going to get the gig!!!!!!!!!! And if you work with female vocalists, you'll learn why it's a chore, They seem always to need or want to sing in "odd", less often used keys, like B or F# or G#
@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out Thank You for your answer! Yes. I'm talking about playing with a rock band of cause)) . I am baseman, but learning a blues piano. And that's why I have this question
sorry. you'll see a similar bass on the other drifting vids i made. it's a standard boogie blues left hand part, probably the most commonly used pattern. You'll probably find it on other's tutorials. I'll try to put up a short vid in the next days, as you are NOT the first to make the complaint.
You also might notice an accent on the "and" of 4. Or even on the four and "a" The last beat of the 4th triplet. Mike Clark, talks about that accent. He is the drummer who played the East Bay funk on Herbie Hancocks's stuff, also can play the shit out of a Texas shuffle and bebop, Of course he can!!! the blues is underneath all of it.
it's well to the left , out of the shot. sorry mate. I know i promised to show it at the end, but I am attention deficit manchild, and i forgot. you can get that from the other two "drifting blues" tutorials, or any basic slow boogie woogie blues. low tech equipment, no proper booms, no engineers or camera womyn no editing expertise . WADDYOUSE WANT FA FREE ANYWAY? I'll put it on my list "make a left hand demo video" ...tonight..... 8pm. later..today "..fuck.!!!....where's me fookin list gone to?......MARGARET!???? MARGARET!!!?? where's me fookin list!??? Shite on a popsicle stick!"
These are abstract concepts and definitions of style that you can NOTICE in the great jazzier blues players playing. Charles Brown, Ray Charles. Big Bill Broonzy's pianists et al.. You may NOTICE that the concepts are NOT present in your playing. You can incorporate them into your playing by listening to blues more, and by PRACTICING with an awareness of what's missing and might be improved. You may then NOTICE a difference in you playing.
you can find that on any of 100 blues tutorials. a static, typical boogie style slow blue pattern. It's the same pattern on the "level 2 driftin blues" vid i made. here's the link.ua-cam.com/video/4T4x3PI1b9s/v-deo.htmlsi=X8NI3XbLQ9NePZ-b
Thank you very very much ,, wonderful piano blues style ..Fred/France
merci !! thanks for your kind words and perceptive judgment!!
Nice...Explains the true feelin of playing the blues..
Alright.... Thanks for that mate! Cheers to yer good ears!!!
❤Love the Blues style 🎹 keep the lessons coming in all regards to great blues songs as well as some instruction for me to learn some slow blues with one left hand chord with right hand licks and runs…thanks Grant 👍
Okay. I'll make one some time next month if I can't get to it right away.
To start, just practice left hand alone ( no right hand. til it's solid., automatic. ) You won't be able to be free with your right hand til your left is solid and auto magic.
just 1 2 3 4. Quarter notes. Bang Bang Bang Bang
"four on the floor", like a jazz guitarist in a big band would play, in the 40's, 50's.
C E G Bb or C E Bb or just C and Bb
then F A C Eb for f7 then G B D F for G7
if you want to practice like you're playing with a band with a bass player you can try this.
E Bb (that's the 3rd and 7th of C7)
then play Eb and above it, A (that's the 7th and 3rd of F7)
Try it . You'll notice that the skeletal, pared down
voicing of the chord, just the 3rd and 7th is enough to define the chord. And the notes are so close to each other that it makes it easy to go from one chord to another. Minimum movement.
A key element for good "comping" e.g. chording.
I'll demonstrate it for you when I have the chance.
ua-cam.com/video/kBTNIcSVDPE/v-deo.htmlsi=UbNhPAmiWJCufoVT
Well guv, seems like i forgot that i already made one.
Big bill B. -" ce gratteur de jambon".
Thanks a lot for all this.
So precious.
XC
I’m 6:18 into this and I’m digging your playing,patter and that great carpet.👍
yeah baby. nice pattern. a little worn out, but it's the really deally. Persian. my mother in law gave it to me. an artifact from her golden days as the golden daughter of a high powered Frankfurt lawyer before the big fall, his, hers, the whole country's , but we won't go into that.
Good foundation, good demo.
It's very cool
STUNNING Mr. PIANO MAN MARK
❤🎹❤
Thank you very much. With this AWESOME tutorial you BRIGHTENED my day. Very transparent and inspirational. You are so right. THE LEFT HAND. So so important. A pretty difficult TASK which is needed to be achieved.
GRACIAS
BEST BEST WISHES from SPAIN.
I ❤ the BLUES
Very nice to hear your appreciation of my music.
¡muchisimas gracias! from Frankfurt, via California.. Say hello to Denia if you are nearby.
Tell her I miss her. mi suegra alemangna sold her house there, and we can't go there to stay for free anymore :(
Great 3 million $ tips....thanks for naming your riff notes. Really helpful!
It's all chromatic save maybe two notes, as long as you give priority to the blue scale. Great tutorial. Thank you!
The man! Be Workin on this....thanks so much.
"no baby. you da man, MT." "no no baby really. it's all about you. YOU da man Mark ." yeah, you right MT. it's all about me." thanks. sincerely, da Man
Bravo !!
Hi Mark, love your style of blues, have listened so many times and every time I find something different I haven't heard before. Would be good if you put some more vids up, especially the " Driftin Blues" all the way through no stop with you singing.......love your voice it suits your style of Bluueess.......All the best from the UK
thanks for the message and much need ego massage Tony.
yes i will post a complete version of driftin blues with vocals.
cheers from lounge lizard hell
Thanks a lot Mark will look forward to hearing ...... Regards Tony
marktarmannpiano hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha SUBBA!!!!kdfutjdulyi;iufouytrd65terjdhgvfilyof976r76485ifvg................oh gee...
dadda's troubled existence.....lounge lizard hell....Come on man...even I'm not going to be a professional musician when I grow up...I'm staying the fuck out a dat shit....haha...04:54 yeah mark...let the "nodding off" people absorb what you said..[chuckes....]..cause their the ones that 'care' the most...and that last part wasn't saYKasm...jajajajajajajajaja!!!
poor dadda...jajjajajajaja...your sons aRe smart.....jajajaja
how's tat for ya ego gweeddough?? naw...messin..wth the [[[HESSIAN]]] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAJAJAJAJA
oh dear, what a racist...hessian troops....jaja...you hessian's got it commin after what ya race did...jaja..goofy goober!!!
Hi tony, I've posted the new version of driftin blues with 4 vocal verses
it came out quite well ithink. thanks for the motivation to do it again . let me know what you think.
Tony Fitz
marktarmannpiano marky...you are better than Art and the Skinny Wizard!!!!! they are losers compared to youse....
Perfect. I love your honesty(that was too much). Great job
This was legendary!
Great again! Class act❤
The Best Blues demo ever! Thanks, I've been searching for these scales many times..
glad you find it of use. check out my stormy monday video. the singing is
meh...alright, but i think you'll enjoy the piano playing.
Michael Hadac and
Thanks ❤
Excellent!
man, you're a good teacher...
+Chris Horton thank you. i try to entertain as well as impart my
store of "golden knowledge".
lovely .. thank you.. more!!
hi chris
sorry about the narrow focus
i'll make another soon with the camera more appropriately placed
there are two other driftin blues vids on my channel . thanks for the commentChris Horton
Hey, y'all. Just to clarify,you will only get the triplet feeling and
the "right" emphasis on the 2 and 4 beats by listening to LOTS of blues, & playing along with the original GIANTS and MASTERS'of blues recordings. Then, you will internalize accents. Then, you Will be able to play them. If it's not deeeep inside you, it won't come out in your playing.
Whom would u recommend listening to?? I only know oscar peterson but i need other suggestions
Omar Al-Nizamy for basic and boogie blues piano Memphis Slim and Pinetop Perkins.
for jazz and blues with a funky gospel feeling
Les McCann is the man. I have listened 1000's of times
playing behind Lou Rawls on the "stormy monday" album with jazz standards, ballads and blues.
for solo blues with vocals, Charles Brown,
for very sophisticated blues and boogie solo piano and singer Willie Mabon is very inspiring. but hard to find.
marktarmannpiano thank u so very much, this is a great compilation.
you are welcome.. how are your piano playing and studies coming along?
OMAR!! what's happening with the piano!!!?@@omaral-nizamy3396
so unusual and quite delightful to listen to.
Hello, Angeli,
I have "come at it" from my own angle and direction. I listen to a few particular
pianists, Les McCann specifically, along with all the great jazz pianists, I play along with the records, I rarely memorize other pianist "licks" though I am told I should. I have studied jazz harmony and piano technique, enough to expand my vocabulary whilst playing the blues, but not quite enough ( of the really hard work, like block chords) to be a "real jazz pianist" or be-bopper.
I have, in the last 2 years, at age 59-61, found some previously untapped level of discipline, and have endeavored to improve my basic technique, directly as it applies to "burning", playing FAST, which one must be able do if one wishes to play jazz with other hight level musicians.. I was lucky to find, amongst the 100's of tutorials and offers of lessons on youtube, Dave Frank's "learn to burn" tutorial, and I've worked on it, on and off for 2 years. If you are interested in jazz piano, a beginner, intermediate or "sort of advanced" pro like me, you'll find his lessons extremely well focussed, organized so that they are easy to use in your daily practice. He taught at Berkelee, he has learnt and incorporated literally all the styles, from Errol Garner to Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett, and Herbie Hancock, into his own, and can delineate the essences of those styles for ya. The beginner's vids are very good, the basic elements of jazz harmony and application to chording and soloing. The " 15 stylistic elements for advanced solo jazz pianists" vid is awesome in the breadth (and quality) of its content.
Thanks for the comment. Good luck with your playing.
I will post some more blues soon. Not a lesson, Just me doing Stormy Monday and a few other tunes, solo.
Great stuff! Thanks.
love your playing. This is awesome but how come you dont show the left. Could be learning so much there too. great swing
the pattern is really basic. It's the same one i use on "drifting blues level 2" here's the link
ua-cam.com/video/4T4x3PI1b9s/v-deo.htmlsi=X8NI3XbLQ9NePZ-b
ua-cam.com/video/2haLQpMQxIg/v-deo.htmlsi=4uoa-wZByapRK7kI HERE IT IS! Just the left hand
Thanks, this is great!
Ha I see what you mean about the 2 and 4! I will try and incorporate that idea to emphasise the “swing” in my playing.
good to see you here brother!
Hey -mister -martins. How are the time concepts sinking into your playing?
I'm bangjng my head again, against the insurmountably high wall of be bop criteria.
bang ouch bang ouch. i should stick with the blues.
This is blues…you can play 3 notes….just need the blues inside….well done ..a 3 m $ video, i send you next week 😉
¡horale! Verdad. You don't need a lot of note, but you do need the feeling. I am not holding my breath waiting for the millions. I don't want to die.
But it 's a nice thought. The 3 million dollar lesson.
@marktarmannpiano where are you located and do you give lessons in person or online?
I'm in Frankfurt, Germany. I haven't done
Skype lessons, but I am willing to give it a go. You'd get a special introductory price for sure, due to my lack of experience in that regard. I'll be on the road for 2 weeks. If you want to try it.we can give a go and see how it works, and you can pay me by pay pal if it feels sastifactory. Feb. 3 or 4, or the next weekend after that if it suits your schedule better. 6 hour time difference to NY 9 hours to L.A. (It's 6:38 pm here now, and 9:38am in L.A. so we'd have to do it mornings 9-12 am your time if you're on the West Coast)
give me your email address and i'll contact you via gmail and then delete it from this comment section
@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out did you get it?
Even better this time!
thanks van. i may do one with guitar.
if i can find a band that can back me proper like.
oi . hard to find innit? a band that can play a slow blues groove with swing and intensity. that's why i ended up playing solo piano. the only groove i can count on... sorry to report...is mine!!!
Thanks a lot ! But why C ? Evb plays the blues in A or E usually )
i play guitar too, so I can tell you why.
Because C is a piano key. It's easier to play blues
on piano in C or F or G. The fingers fall more naturally onto the pentatonic blues scale notes and the left hand parts also, much easier somehow than in A or E.
Guitarists don't like C or D or G much and they bloody hate F. Barre chords (for the rhythm parts)
are way too high on the neck in D an C, and in F the barre chord is on the first fret, making it really hard to do the basic stuff unless you have incredibly strong first finger "barre-ing" ability.
I can play blues on piano in any key, even C# or F# but it takes time and work, because
those (and A and E ) are trickier than C F G.
try it . you'll see why in a second. Once you get comfortable you can play in E and A, but never quite as easily as in C.
Clapton plays driftin blues in E and A because the open notes, all the open string notes in standard tuning E A D G B E are notes used in those keys...E and A...so guitarists can use the open positions to play the
rhythm ( and fills and solo) parts. It's much easier to make blues music in A and E on guitar, so naturally, trained or untrained blues musicians would have used those keys.
.E and A are the "easy keys" on the guitar. (and bass)..so... therefore........
If you're intent on playing in a band, with guitar players, yes, you had better learn everything in
E and A or you're not going to get the gig!!!!!!!!!!
And if you work with female vocalists, you'll learn why it's a chore, They seem always to need or want to sing in "odd", less often used keys, like B or F# or G#
@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out Thank You for your answer! Yes. I'm talking about playing with a rock band of cause)) . I am baseman, but learning a blues piano. And that's why I have this question
Can’t see then left hand bass
sorry. you'll see a similar bass on the other drifting vids i made. it's a standard
boogie blues left hand part, probably the most commonly used pattern. You'll probably find it on other's tutorials. I'll try to put up a short vid in the next days, as you are NOT the first to make the complaint.
i made the vid demonstrating the left hand
ua-cam.com/video/2haLQpMQxIg/v-deo.htmlsi=uaZTBxdgPN9FXISk
🙏❤music 👍.
thanks Mark. you're very likable and entertaining and good! what was your left hand doing on this tutorial? it wasn't C to F to G was it?
Mark
its in F so its 1 4 5 in F. taking the 1 4 5 notes of the F major scale and that's your progression
a bit late innit guv? SORRY!!oh well here ye go
ua-cam.com/video/2haLQpMQxIg/v-deo.htmlsi=zthNdWR_SZtzZeV5
You also might notice an accent on the "and" of 4. Or even on the four and "a" The last beat of the 4th triplet.
Mike Clark, talks about that accent. He is the drummer who played the East Bay funk on Herbie Hancocks's stuff, also can play the shit out of a Texas shuffle and bebop, Of course he can!!! the blues is underneath all of it.
Hi mark please comment here where I can message you about a lesson🙏
Where's the left hand?
it's well to the left , out of the shot. sorry mate. I know i promised to show it at the end, but I am attention deficit manchild, and i forgot. you can get that from the other
two "drifting blues" tutorials, or any basic
slow boogie woogie blues.
low tech equipment, no proper booms, no engineers or camera womyn
no editing expertise .
WADDYOUSE WANT FA FREE ANYWAY?
I'll put it on my list "make a left hand demo video"
...tonight.....
8pm. later..today
"..fuck.!!!....where's me fookin
list gone to?......MARGARET!???? MARGARET!!!??
where's me fookin list!??? Shite on a popsicle stick!"
What a legend 😂
jordanwillrog That he is!
damn! you need a better wider camera angle.. you've a lovely touch
Yeah, low tech old Boomer tries to make a POV vid. Sorry. maybe next time. :)
These are abstract concepts and definitions of style that you can NOTICE in the great jazzier blues players playing. Charles Brown, Ray Charles. Big Bill Broonzy's pianists et al.. You may NOTICE that the concepts are NOT present in your playing. You can incorporate them into your playing by listening to blues more, and by PRACTICING with an awareness of what's missing and might be improved. You may then NOTICE a difference in you playing.
Pretty neat, thank you. Please stop snapping your fingers.
better show also your left hand please, next time
you can find that on any of 100 blues tutorials. a static, typical boogie style slow blue pattern.
It's the same pattern on the "level 2 driftin blues" vid i made. here's the link.ua-cam.com/video/4T4x3PI1b9s/v-deo.htmlsi=X8NI3XbLQ9NePZ-b
could have been a great video , except there was left hand so defeat from the jaws of victory - like the style ...
ua-cam.com/video/2haLQpMQxIg/v-deo.htmlsi=4uoa-wZByapRK7kI
Thanks, this is great!
Very glad you enjoyed it/ find it useful!!