{"id":94,"date":"2018-06-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T19:45:20","slug":"blues-licks-for-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/blues-licks-for-the-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Blues Licks For The Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acclaimed Jazz pianist Jay Oliver\u2019s approach to the blues is really awesome. In all of his soloing, the heart and soul of his lines always come down to the blues. When Jay came into the studio to film some lessons and share his thoughts with us, I had to ask him about his powerful approach to integrating the blues into his larger jazz playing. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our discussion of what Jay deemed \u2018The Four Streams Of Jazz Soloing\u2019, he described the blues as a sort of \u2018punctuation point\u2019 within his playing to really drive the emotion of his music home.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jazz as a genre was sourced from the blues, and as it developed more complex harmonies and chord movements, the role of the blues in a jazz solo became a sort of cathartic release of tension. One of the things that really struck me about Jay\u2019s playing was how he would build these solos with intense, BIG chords and then settle into a beautiful blues line that would just feel like HOME. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the best thing about the blues is its scales and licks really do work over just about any form, as long as you\u2019re listening and musical with it. You can take an elegant jazz standard like Autumn Leaves and create a really wonderful emotional trajectory through it, started off technical and then resolving in pure bluesy emotion. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try it out on a jazz standard you like!<\/span><\/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>Learn some licks from a piano legend &#8211; Jay Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","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\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10884,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/10884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}