Mike and I went to watch Ray on Sunday after canoeing.
We both really enjoyed the music in it, and for me it was added inspiration to persevere with my blues piano playing :-) Michael's birthday present to me was FastForward: Real Blues for Keyboard, a book for beginners which introduces you to a basic riff and then shows you variations to add to it. There's a CD with backing tracks so you can imagine you are a pro, heheheh.
I've been at it for about 10 days now, and it's fun. I used my handy-dandy-mp3player-slash-recorder to record myself playing 12-bar blues this evening. The variations are mine - I threw in a little syncopation on the right, and some 7th notes, and added the dum-dum-dum-DUM at the end. I'm playing it too fast but I like it that way. I got rhythm baby...
OK, I'm going to have to work hard at my technique but now that smoking in restaurants has been banned, I have decided that being a blues piano player will be my back-up career should the engineering not work out.
Heheheh.
Download beginblues.WAV (110 Kb)
The good old 12-bar blues! I remember playing it during guitar lessons some 3/4 years ago!
Posted by: Kenneth | March 02, 2005 at 18:36
I love it! On the guitar I like to play 12-bar blues in the key of E, because the 7th chords are easy :-)
Then Michael goes wild improvising on his lead guitar (a Gibson, aaaah) and we do sound pretty cool, if I do say so myself, heheheh.
Posted by: MaltaGirl | March 03, 2005 at 01:00
Ok, I'm officially jealous. Which one of the Gibson beauties does he own?
Posted by: Kenneth | March 06, 2005 at 12:08
Um, I don't know! It's red, that's about all I can tell you.
Sorry, lol.
Posted by: MaltaGirl | March 08, 2005 at 19:19
Probably an SG then :)
Posted by: Kenneth | March 08, 2005 at 19:58
I'll take your word for it! :-D
Posted by: MaltaGirl | March 08, 2005 at 20:00