Title:
Blues Station
Instrument:
piano
Level:
easy piano
Genre:
jazz
BLUES STATION is a LEV 3-4 (EP) early intermediate piano solo by Laura Weed, based on a 12 bar blues.
Teaching concepts:
- Key of F major
- 4/4 time and one measure of 2/4 time near the end
- Octave triplets
- Typical 12 bar blues format - I chord/4 bars, IV chord/2 bars, I chord/2 bars,
V7 chord/1 bar,IV chord/1 bar & I chord/2 bars
- Blues scale
- 2nd finger moves over the thumb in the RH
- Harmonic 5ths and 6ths in the LH
- Articulations - accents, legato and staccato
- Notes - Eighth and eighth note triplets, quarter, half and whole
- Rests - Eighth, quarter, half and whole
- Slurred and tied notes
- Swing feel rhythm, long-short
LEVEL - EP, Easy Piano, (Level 3-4), early intermediate