Blues Piano Intermediate Lick Seven

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Jonathan Wilson on behalf of Expert Village.com, and we're learning thirty must-have blues piano licks. We're in the middle of our intermediate series. This is lick number seventeen and it's just a classic. It's one with these rolling things, you've heard this a million times. This technique that you'll learn in this lick can be used in a million other places. Almost anywhere you can play a chord; you can make this lick out of that chord. It's basically playing a chord and then rolling through it and then moving down into some of a roll pattern that follows on. Slowly with the metronome and the notation, it goes like this. O.K.? Sound familiar? There's a million examples of this with using various chords where you roll through them like this. Same thing that you're kind of getting used to me saying, keep your hand relaxed, don't use your fingers, and use your wrist to get through these patterns. Make the rolling itself something pretty subtle. You don't want to hear everyone of those notes. It's just sort of a little roll through the chord. O.K.? Let's hear this pattern over the full band, full chorus. Alright, that's lick number seventeen. We're getting through them. Hang in there. Coming up next is lick number eighteen."