Boogie Woogie Piano: 'Left Hand Primer' Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2017
- I decided to put together this lesson while working on another up-coming boogie woogie tutorial that I'm working on.
I firmly believe that a rock-steady left hand is absolutely essential to good boogie woogie. If it's uncoordinated, lacking rhythm or loose in any way, your piece is going to fall apart.
In this tutorial I teach a specific left hand pattern (which will be used in my next boogie woogie tutorial) and give you a bunch of tips to make it good! Plus, a very simple right hand over the top, just to challenge you to maintain that unwavering left hand while doing something else.
Good luck... and watch out for the follow-up!
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Very good lesson Thank you so much for sharing
Perfect. I imagine there are many people stuck at the lower intermediate level like me who can benefit greatly from a more advanced lesson like this.
I’m glad it’s useful for you 🙂
Showing the desired end before beginning!! So nice to see that on a video for once!!!! A large number of adult learners NEED to know where they're going first. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense to them and they get lost. THANK YOU!!!!!
Glad I got things in the correct order for you! Enjoy learning it!
Best boogie tutorials period. Thanks.
Great lesson just the right speed for me 76 and trying to play piano again thanks.. Mike
Thanks Mike! Good luck.
Love this tutorial. I really like that you tell us what to do rather than assuming we'll see what/how to play by rewinding the video. And explaining exactly where to play left and right hands together really helps me to make progress and feel confident that i am practising it in the right place.
Excellent tutorial thanks.
Glad you got value from it!
Love your teaching approach. Especially how you call out the notes. thanks.
Love how you teach slow than fast and call out notes
Great tutorial easy to follow THANKS Mr Escape the box Awesome. Just love your lessons. ..
Excellent tutorial!
thank you so much for your patience and willingness to teach and repeat this.
I'm gonna get a piano
I rarely comment, but Thank You. Your style works for me.
Thanks for the kind words!
Yes, it's so easy to follow when you call the notes & start slow. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Love your tutorial, this is my second piece after “ learn how to play very easy boogie woogie “ from your tutorial.
Thank you for posting.
Thanks for your kind words - glad this is helping. Hope you find my other boogie tutorials... there are a handful on my channel...
This is not the correct boogie technique.
Great lesson many thanks. Dave.
Very easy to understand!!! Thanks!!!
Amazing! I've been playing the piano on and off for about 6 months and the last few weeks have been particularly 'off'. I've only been playing classical and some beginner jazz improvisation and I was starting to get bored. Then today i found this video and tought I would give it a try really quick. Three hours later and I'm still sitting on my piano bench swinging left to right like a child :D. Boogie Woogie is absolutely awesome and this tutorial is too: no showboating, only speeding up once to show the end goal, clear and concise instructions that are well articulated.
Thanks for your kind comment! Yep - totally agree, boogie woogie is the best! I hope you're making some good sounds on your piano.
Excellent to learning for begginers. Thanks.
Real good....You make it fun. Love it much.
To the 47 peeps who gave this thumbs down: this is a very well done video, clear and well-paced. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thanks for the kind words, Ryker! Hope my tutorial was useful to you.
I could not agree with you more mate. I am 68 and just learning piano and then came across this tutorial. So well structured with calm and positive direction.
Thank You,
Geck
Great lesson, love your nice clear teaching style.
Very helpful this vid, many thanks, just taken up piano and want to focus on this style, great how ya broke it down🙌👍🙏
Thanks Gavin. Hope you enjoy the learning journey!
Great video my friend.Keep up the good work😎👍🏻
So clear lesson
Fantastic tutorial - thank you 🙏🏻
You’re welcome 😊
Absolutely brilliant
Thank you!
Another Great tutorial - Thanks so much!!!
You are so welcome!
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I can play my first ever boogie woogie now
You're welcome - glad my tutorial helped you!
Should I ask how long did it take you?
@@damodaraomalley3974 I practiced during the early pandemic lockdowns so maybe a few hours? Did you try it? Sorry for the late reply! lol
Enjoyed this, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gut erklärt. Danke!
Great tutorial 👌 thanks for this
You’re welcome 😊
Wow, great video - I am a very "adult" newbie learner and have been practicing a good part of the day after watching. The mind is an interesting thing. It can go on a run, almost in autopilot, and then when it refocuses, my fingers go haywire. Interesting I could see speeding up through this lazy Saturday. Quite quite quite a bit more practice, though. Not like I could play for money, yet : )
Update: Getting there with this. Just an issue of repetition and time.
Absolutely agree, had my keyboard about one month now, first ever instrument. This will be the second ever proper tune after learning the boogie number one two days ago.
Can I ask how are you going with this tune now?
@@damodaraomalley3974 This is my go-to riff, now. This video served as a core lesson.
I resumed lessons a month ago (over Zoom) and the things my instructor is teaching me, I use this riff to practice. For instance, simply transposing into different keys gives you practice on something like 5 different levels. Get into keys other than straight-up C, get your fingers on those black keys.
I picked up some confidence with this, if I keep practicing, things happen.
If you just keep practicing it, other rhythms start emerging, you develop finger independence and hand independence.
As a training tool, at all, for piano, it has really worked.
And, if anyone is around to listen, it is a great sound - less monotonous.
Hope this helps...
Great lesson, thank you :) I have started playing boogie recently, and this helped me a lot! Have not seen this pattern in other videos before. Keep up the good work!
how's that going? check out "Dr. K" boogie woogie dedicated page
Yasss
Excellent!!!!!! Can you show what's notes are involved in Jools Holland panick attack (left hand)????
Thanks a lot
Loved this tutorial & the way you teach them - I cant find the up-coming boogie woogie tutorial you refer to in this tutorial. I am sure I have heard it once and in it you reference this tutorial as a prelude piece. Can you identify the next one please. Cheers.
Thanks for your kind words :) Glad you've found it helpful. It's effectively a simplified version of the left hand part from Boogie Woogie Stomp. I've done a part 1 tutorial of that - th-cam.com/video/Fqj_7VennLM/w-d-xo.html. I'm honestly planning to do tutorials for the rest of the song... just haven't got round to it yet!
@@EscapeTheBoxPiano Hello!! I was wandering wheather you got to do the next tutorial on this left hand pattern....
I am searching but cannot find it. I really really would like to add some right hand moves now that i seem to able to manage the left!!! Thank's a lot!!!
OK, pantheon now OK and donation submitted. Many thanks.
Thank you James, that's incredibly kind!
I enjoyed this very much. I'm a bit slow catching on to Co ordinating my hands. I press pause a lot!!
Keep at it - you'll get there :)
Have to ask only as I like to know, your 2nd cord your saying F ,what name for this cord that your are playing I've looked in my books and it says Cm6 , or Am7 d5 just so I can play in different scale , good tutorial, like the bass line i see it played a lot , regards ,
After scouring uTube for great LH BW patterns and accompaning RH melodies I'm thrilled to say that I feel I've at last "struck gold"! I'd be happy to donate through Pantheon but, for some reason, it is mal-functioning. Isthis temporary?
Lovely lesson
Update: this vid remains one of the most important to my noobness. As a noob, it has taken me a year to even get close - but this is my goto instruction. I think it really helped in many different ways with the lessons I was taking off-and-on. I feel like I learning something useful, and it helped me change simple songs I am learning into somthing with swing and slide. Makes practicing my other stuff way more fun.
Glad it's helped you!
Great video! I can usually get the hang of left hand patterns ok, but I have a real problem moving it around the 3 positions! Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you 😊👍
You just have to anticipate the shift before you have to go there. Trust the last one to play itself and be thinking where you have to move.
Is it bad to use the ring fingers and let the pinky fingers hang of the board
high is this from the same book as the first video boogie no 1 cheers
No, this is more of a set-up for Boogie Woogie Stomp which isn’t in that book. Hope you found it useful nevertheless.
Спасибо, бас классный!
Glad you like it!
Why is it better to use the tumb on the second G ? Wouldn’t it be more consistent to use the 2nd ?
It doesn't matter really. I use the 2nd too. He must have started with the thumb from the beginning and now totally used to it. It's what feels right for YOU is what counts, and just stick with that.
What is the name of the book to purchase? regarding your
This tutorial is my own material and isn't based on any particular book. However, some other videos of my channel focus on some of the pieces in The Joy of Boogie and Blues, which I'd recommend as a good starter book for the genre.
I follow and agree with you until 1:11 then i left😂
Bet those 47 people that disliked the video can't play boogie woogie xD
Started doing blues... ended up doing Megalovania (C, C, A, E, Eb, D, C) HAHAHAHA
Sounds good in G, bassier I guess.
DO YOU KNOW BEWGIE WEWGIE??
Yea that's the cool way to say it. Bewgie all the way baby!
nie mogę wprowadzić język polski .. . .. .więc nie rozumie tej lekcji . . .!!!!!
c"est dommage que la langue française ne soit pas employée
Community contributions are allowed for this video so if you wanted to add French subtitles, I'm sure it would be invaluable for some TH-cam users :)
Bro...where is the swing man? It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing brother..good tutorial nonetheless for beginners. You just need to add some swing and you’re set.
Stop being so boring
Talk to much