Piano Lick Tutorial Get Fast Fingers Like Ray Charles

Go here to get access to this entire piano lick tutorial and complete lesson. In this video we teach you how to play an amazing sounding piano lick. This piano riff was inspired by the late great Ray Charles. This piano lick features a blend of blues scales, blues double stop riffs, and a little bit of major pentatonic at the resolution spot. From an intervallic perspective it also features a blend of 4ths, 5ths, 3rds, and 6ths. Most jazz pianists or even beginning piano players tend to play their licks with 1 note at a time. Nothing wrong with this technique but when you re trying to cut through a whole band it s a good idea to play piano licks that have multiple notes happening at the same time. Ray Charles really set the standard for piano success in the last century. He really had it all in his playing. This multi note bigger sounding piano lick technique is just 1 of the many things he had in his playing. On a