Four Hot Blues Licks for Piano and Organ

Take your blues playing to the next level with this piano and organ video lesson, in which I will first play and then dissect four blues licks. You will learn how to incorporate these licks into your own piano playing as I break them on screen with special captions for you to follow. Although the current lesson will use an organ tone, the ideas can also be applied to the piano or almost any other sound (electric piano for example), so if you don t have the appropriate organ tone just follow along on your own keyboard of choice. Now here is something very important every budding blues soloist should know: The trick for playing a successful blues solo involves learning a large number of licks, and then stringing them together seamlessly. Unlike jazz, blues relies on very complex licks incorporating double notes, triple notes, tremolos and many other dramatic devices which are very difficult to come up with on the fly as jazz musicians do. It is somewhat cheating but it is extremely