Summary: How to play rhythmic dissonance in blues piano, including a demonstration; learn this and more in this free online video piano lesson for intermediate level musicians taught by expert pianist Paul Becker.
Paul Becker is a musician whose main passion is playing the accordion. He also plays the piano and the shofar.read more
"Hi, my name is Paul Becker and I'm going to talk to you today about playing the blues on the piano, some beginner intermediate even advanced information about the blues and I'm doing this for Expert Village. We're going to continue on a theme here of a little bit of rhythmic dissonance now some blue it sounds really great are very rhythmic constant I would call it, everything is very together. (playing piano) On the other hand there's really interest blues where you kind of don't keep the left hand rhythm and the right hand rhythm perfectly together and you kind of in Eastern European use to call this the stumble beat. (playing piano) So in some cases I'm speeding up and some cases I'm slowing down the left to be not perfectly in rhythm and it creates a pretty nice tension."
eHow Article: Rhythmic Dissonance in Blues Piano