Advanced Blues Piano: Shuffle & Extended Harmony

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Advanced Blues Piano: Shuffle & Extended Harmony

Name: Advanced Blues Piano: Shuffle & Extended Harmony
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Duration41m

Modules15

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (0h 41m)

- 01. Reviewing II-V-I basslines
  1:30
- 02. 'Medium Jump' (performance)
  1:07
- 03. Walkthrough of Medium Jump
  2:57
- 04. II-V walking bass lines
  Free lesson
  2:37
- 05. 'Medium Jump' (performance)
  1:49
- 01. 'Blues with Pickups' (performance)
  1:45
- 02. The left-hand shuffle with On-Off chords and the ‘famous lick’
  5:25
- 01. 'Bouncy Boogie' (performance)
  0:50
- 02. Key of D and right-hand ideas
  6:38
- 03. Thirds improvisation ideas
  1:19
- 04. 'Bouncy Boogie' (Medley performance)
  2:37
- 01. The five-finger position in thirds
  3:31
- 02. 'Slow Blues in D' (performance)
  2:00
- 01. Straight eighth-notes in both hands
  5:38
- 02. 'Happy Blues' (performance with improv)
  1:33

About this course

Tim Richards has been a leading voice in UK jazz piano teaching for over thirty years. This course is part of his graded method, also published by Schott Music as a textbook of the same name. Full bio on Tim's artist page.

This is Chapter 1 of Improvising Blues Piano Pt 2, the advanced volume, picking up where the first volume left off. You'll take the shuffle feel into II-V-I territory, develop a stand-alone left-hand shuffle pattern, work through double thirds with triplet rhythms, combine the blue third and major sixth in soloing, and add a syncopated bass line that frees your right hand entirely.

By the end your shuffle blues sounds idiomatic and modern - with extended harmony, two-handed independence, and rhythmic sophistication that goes well beyond a basic 12-bar.

Who it's for

Pianists who completed Improvising Blues Piano Pt 1
Intermediate blues players adding extended harmony
Self-taught players wanting two-handed independence

What you'll learn

Apply II-V-I substitutions inside a shuffle-blues form
Hold a left-hand shuffle while improvising freely in the right
Combine the blue third and major sixth across triplet phrases

What you'll need

A piano or weighted-key keyboard
Comfort with shuffle comping and seventh chord voicings
A few minutes most days at the keys

Explore the series · Improvising Blues Piano · Pt 2

Based on Improvising Blues Piano by Schott Music

01
Advanced Blues Piano: Shuffle & Extended Harmony
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02
Advanced Blues Piano: Ninth Chords & Booker T
03
Advanced Blues Piano: Styles & Performance

Meet the Guru

Tim Richards

Critically acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Tim Richards is one of Britain’s most experienced jazz educators, teaching piano privately for over 30 years, as well as at Morley College, Goldsmiths College, the University of Surrey, Premises Studios and other venues in the UK and abroad. He has produced numerous titles for Schott Music, including the best-selling two-volume Exploring Jazz Piano, Blues, Boogie & Gospel Collection and the acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano. He is also co-author, with John Crawford, of Exploring Latin Piano and Brazilian Piano Collection.

More recently Schott have published Jazz, Latin & Modern Collection (15 pieces for solo piano), comprising Tim Richards originals alongside pieces by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and the two volume set Beginning Jazz Piano (now a two-part MusicGurus course).

“The real joy of Tim’s music… is that it is both hugely educational but also such great fun to play. Anyone with the slightest interest in learning to play or teach jazz piano should really acquire a set of Tim’s books.” PianoDao

As a performer Tim has been a presence on the UK jazz scene since the 1980s, also playing the blues with UK and US legends such as Otis Grand, Earl Green, Dana Gillespie, Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and Mojo Buford. He has released over a dozen albums as a leader (featuring many of London’s best jazz musicians including Pete King, Gilad Atzmon, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde, Seb Rochford, Ed Jones, Dick Pearce and many others), and toured all over Europe with line-ups ranging from duo to nine-piece. His latest recording, the album ‘Telegraph Hill’ by the six-piece Hextet, was described in The Observer as "A true joy from beginning to end".

More info can be found on his website www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk

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Published with

Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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