Learn To Play Blues Piano - Complete 4-DVD Set by David Cohen

Learn To Play Blues Piano - Complete 4-DVD Set
Item #: HL00642073   Price: $89.95
DVD : Piano Methods : Blues Piano

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By David Cohen  Published by Homespun
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DVD 1: Get started playing authentic blues piano by ear! No music reading or previous piano experience is necessary. Within minutes you'll be playing a shuffle rhythm on the bass notes with your left hand and riffing on the treble notes with your right.

David Cohen is an expert player and teacher, and his step-by-step method is logically and carefully conceived. He systematically leads you through all the steps you'll need to play solid blues piano, whether as a soloist or as a member of a band.

The heart and soul of blues playing is in your ability to improvise, and there is no better way for a beginner to get started than with this superb instructional DVD. David imparts innumerable tips on style while showing you the scales, chord theory, turnarounds, endings and blues licks that will quickly make you a formidable player.

DVD 2: David Cohen continues his expert instruction in blues piano, taking you beyond the beginner’s level and firmly into intermediate territory. Again, the heart and soul of this lesson is in your ability to improvise, and David gives you all the tools you'll need to make up your own solos, completely by ear.

Starting his lesson with various kinds of "slow blues," the emotional and dramatic form that is the basis for so many great songs, David demonstrates variations in the basic chord progression as well as an array of bass lines, chord voicings, turnarounds and familiar-sounding riffs.

You'll then get into the "New Orleans Rumba," with its infectious rhythms and funk-based sounds made famous by Professor Longhair, Dr. John and many other Crescent City players.

Finally, David wraps up his instructional method with a rockin', straight-time boogie-woogie, giving you yet another blues format to add to your newly found repertoire.

DVD 3: David Cohen takes beginning and intermediate pianists beyond the basics and into the colorful flavors, foot-stomping syncopations and old-time funky feeling of the real blues style. The emphasis is on helping you achieve solid technique and improvisational ideas for both slow blues and the more up-tempo boogie-woogie styles.

David covers a wide range of musical concepts that will bring your playing to a whole new level. He starts with the driving bass patterns that give boogie-woogie its recognizable groove, then adds chords, riffs, bass lines, classic turnarounds and arpeggios that will give your playing style and distinction.

Moving from the key of C to E (necessary if you're going to be playing with a guitarist), David explores slow blues using progressions that will expand your harmonic sense and allow you to improvise easily and effectively in major and minor keys.

You'll learn to play the rollicking Pinetop’s Boogie (in two keys), the sophisticated Blues For A Summer's Dream and the seemingly endless variations on the 8-bar Slow Blues in E.

DVD 4: Sit down with piano master David Bennett Cohen for an essential lesson on New Orleans piano styles. Like a great Southern chef, David shows you the exact recipe for combining blues, gospel, country and boogie-woogie to achieve a rich musical gumbo of sounds.

David shows dozens of ideas you can use for soloing, improvising and exploring the keyboard: Bass lines, bluesy riffs, hot arpeggios and the essential scales necessary to play in the New Orleans tradition. With Homespun's "piano cam" floating above the keyboard, you'll be able to see and follow exactly what David is playing.

The old gospel song When The Saints Go Marching In is taught both in an up-tempo and a minor, dirge-like version; Crawfish Royale uses "second line" clave rhythm; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out shows you how to deal with a more complicated chord progression; and the soulful Georgia On My Mind illustrates how to improvise over chord changes.

Save $30.00 by buying this complete set of all 4 dvds together. Over 5 1/2 hours of instruction!

HL00642073 - Learn To Play Blues Piano - Complete 4-DVD Set by David Cohen $89.95

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