Have Fun with Beginner Blues Piano

Learn to play and create your own simple 12 bar blues pieces quickly, impressing friends and family without needing to read music.

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Brief Summary

This super fun course teaches you how to play and create simple 12 bar blues pieces on the piano, even if you can't read music. With easy videos and supportive materials, you'll impress friends and family in no time!

Key Points

  • Learn to play and create simple 12 bar blues pieces.
  • Understand the I, IV, and V chords in the blues pattern.
  • Develop hand independence and rhythm variety.
  • Reinforcement through videos and text documents.
  • No need to read music; just follow along!

Learning Outcomes

  • Play at least 6 simple 12 bar blues pieces.
  • Understand two variations of the 12 bar blues pattern.
  • Increase your hand independence for better overall playing.
  • Create your own blues pieces with learned tools.
  • Boost confidence in improvisation skills.

About This Course

Learn to play and even create your own simple 12 bar blues pieces in weeks

Have you always wanted to be the life of the party, able to sit down at the piano and play fun, toe-tapping music for family and friends without needing to drag a lot of music books around or even needing to know how to read music?

If you've taken piano lessons before, have you ever been embarrassed because you couldn't just sit down and play, any time, any place, without needing music in front of you?

Playing the blues is a lot of fun! And with a little time and effort, you too can impress your family and friends with the piano pieces you will learn – and even create – after going through this course.

In this course we will:

-look at 2 common variations of the 12 bar blues pattern;

-learn how that pattern translates to the keyboard; and

-learn several riffs, blues-y sounding chords and an ornament or two that will get you playing blues in no time.

Added to that will be a handful of simple patterns or grooves for the left hand and finally, instruction on how to put it all together.

By the time the course is completed, you will have the information you need to start creating your own simple blues pieces to play for your own enjoyment or to share with others.

Through the use of videos, you will be encouraged to play along as I demonstrate each piece a chunk at a time. Key concepts or patterns found on the keyboard will be reinforced through text documents so you have vital pieces of information to easily access during your practice time. While written music will also be provided I strongly encourage you to learn the pieces as presented in the videos. Of course if you don't already read music, that's fine too. Just prop up the music on your keyboard when you are playing and see how impressed family are friends are when they see what you can play!

As you are going through the course I will be available for questions, responding to them at least once a week if not sooner.

This course can be completed in as little as a month depending on amount of time put into practicing and prior experience. If you have never played blues before, this course will give you a brief but detailed introduction into playing 12 bar blues.

Not sure you like blues? Even if you never played another blues piece again, after this course, you will find your hand independence has developed, you are more skilled at putting the hands together in different rhythms, and you have increased confidence in your improvisation abilities. All of these skill will improve your playing, whatever the style or genre.

What are you waiting for? Make your dreams of playing fun, energizing pieces (without even needing to be able to read music) now. You may never see a better deal than this.

  • By the end of this course you will be able to play at least 6 simple 12 bar blues pieces along with variations and have the tools to create your own blues pieces.

  • In this course you will learn two variations of the 12 bar blues pattern and understand what the I, IV and V are in the pattern and how they relate to what you will play on the keyboard.

  • In this course you will learn how to put hands together in a variety of rhythm patterns and increase hand independence which will not only improve your playing of the blues but will also improve your playing in whatever genre or style is your favorite.

Instructor

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Karen Gibson

After earning a B.A. in Human Resource Development (Training and Development) from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Karen Gibson moved to Iowa and later New Mexico to raise Arabian horses; concurrently she taught a variety of courses in proprietary business schools in both states. In the early 90s she returned to Chicago and earned a paralegal certificate from Roosevelt University,...

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ui-avatar of Boni Stefan
Boni S.
5.0
10 months ago

Super!

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Duchan C.
5.0
3 years ago

Excellent musical instruction from a sympathetic teacher. I am enjoying this course!

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Jean H.
5.0
3 years ago

Loved this course. 74 and a little short term memory loss but finished the course. Karen teaches you a fun blues song then builds on it to show how you can take riffs and blues scales to produce some songs of your own.would definitely recommend.

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Phil E.
5.0
3 years ago

The teacher makes everything very clear and easy to learn through step by step progressions to show how to construct blues riffs!

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Gemma S.
5.0
3 years ago

Seems really simple and well explained

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Ian C.
4.5
3 years ago

It was quite easy for me to understand the lesson and to play it.

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Giovanni C.
5.0
4 years ago

si e' adatto

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Mark J.
5.0
4 years ago

Perfect introduction to blues for a beginner piano player! This course is a ton of fun!

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Mike J.
5.0
4 years ago

This course contains music that can be stretch material for the preparatory player. Being in the preparatory stage myself I’m enjoying ‘stretching out’ with this music. I’d imagine it could also be useful for grades 1 to 3 (RCM). Anyway, I enjoyed the course and continue to enjoy working with it.

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David D.
5.0
4 years ago

my brain wants to go faster and gets a little impatient but I'm glad Karen went at the pace she did as for the big picture of this course it was perfect. I do wish those cage chords were explained. I understand when we talked about the blues scales and know where they came from. But I'm not sure what a cage chord is and why we were able to use those specific notes specifically the IV which is the F chord for our lesson but the cage notes are Dflat, G, A, and C with no F played. All in all I loved the course especially when I was practicing and repeating during practicing I felt the great urge to improvise , often stumbling but still the urge made for some fun.

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