Articles tagged: "the blues"

1: The Many Faces Of The 12-Bar Blues

Piano players and other musicians who desire to learn the foundations of purely American music should start with the blues. This music form began over a century ago. Today 's jazz, hip-hop, rock-and-roll and rhythm and blues owes a debt to it.

2: The Blues Scale & Cool Stuff You Can Do With It

Most of us who took piano lessons as kids are all too familiar with scales, and most of us hated practicing them with a passion. But understanding scales and what they do is critical to the process of improvisation as well as key orientation and just a general understanding of what 's happening