Title: Octave Boogie
Instrument: piano
Level: easy piano
Genre: jazz

OCTAVE BOOGIE is a delightful early intermediate boogie woogie in the key of C minor! Teaching concepts include

- Key of C minor (3 flats, which are Bb, Eb & Ab flat)
- Three time signatures! Mostly 4/4 time plus 2 bars of 3/4 time & 1 bar of 2/4 time (m. 43-end)
- Swing feel (long-short) jazz rhythm style- Octave leaps in both hands- Articulations - accents, legato, staccato & tenuto
- Basso ostinato (repeated pattern in the bass)
- Dynamics - crescendo, mezzo piano, mezzo forte & forte
- Grace notes
- Notes - eighth notes & rests, quarter notes & rests, dotted quarter notes, half notes & rests & whole notes
- Chords - Root ,1st & 2nd inversion solid chords
- 2nd finger moves over the RH thumb
- 8va (RH)
- Recurrent C add 2 chord (CDG)
- Varied dynamics
- Great choice for recitals & festivals!

Fingering suggestions are included
LEVEL - (EP) Easy Piano (Level 3-4), Early Intermediate Piano