{"id":19,"date":"2017-03-09T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:14:48","slug":"must-know-piano-blues-lick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/must-know-piano-blues-lick\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Must-Know Piano Blues Lick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Take your playing to the next level: <a href=\"..\/\">www.Pianote.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use this riff all the time as a way to either end a blues jam or adapt it a little bit into a blues turnaround if I want to keep playing.&nbsp; I\u2019ve demonstrated the lick in the key of C, but you should learn it in all the other keys too!&nbsp; That will really help your versatility and keyboard knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing as this is a blues lick, you\u2019re going to want to think <em>pentatonically<\/em>. I&#8217;ve broken the lick down into four easy steps&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step One<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start on a \u2018C\u2019 note an octave above middle C, and move down one <em>full-tone<\/em> jump to B-flat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step Two<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Move <em>chromatically<\/em> down from B-flat to G.&nbsp; That means you\u2019re going to play every key between those two notes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step Three<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time for a big \u2018bluesy\u2019 jump down from G to the minor 3rd: E-flat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step Four<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, simply raise that 3rd into a MAJOR 3rd, then jump down to land on middle C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s super simple but it sounds iconic, and if you\u2019re into bluesy-styled playing, this lick is great to add to your repertoire! Once you\u2019ve got a handle on practicing this riff, try to put it in a blues improv.&nbsp; It\u2019ll make for a great ending to any jam session! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can probably alrady hear it in your head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-styles","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10872,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/10872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}