Bajos menores
Lesson time: (3min 2sec)
Bajos en tonalidad menor, con un 'Caravan' estilo boogie de Duke Ellington
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This lesson is part of the course Toca boogie-woogie auténtico al piano
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Lesson transcript:
Exploring Boogie in the Minor
So obviously, all the basses we've done so far have been in the major.
Perhaps you could have a total change up and play a boogie in the minor, which you don't hear very often at all.
Rare Occurrences
There's a kind of...
There's a great version of Summertime by Joe Sullivan, actually, which he does in the minor. It goes into a sort of walking bass in the middle, but it's rare you hear it.
I guess it's because it's originally sort of good-time, up-tempo music, you know, played for dancing, and the minor key maybe wasn't used so much for that.
Bass in Thirds
So yeah, let's take this bass in thirds.
Just move that third down to the minor, and then we've got a bass in the minor.
Then on the 4, maybe the 5 stays major, because we're in C minor. So you've got that movement.
A Little Digression
That's just a little digression for you if you wanted to work out a boogie in the minor.
I do an arrangement of Caravan where I play. It's got this kind of, I guess, sort of eastern feel bass line that goes like that, which is essentially going between D flat over C and C.
Additional Ideas
Maybe you know the tune.
Then I've got the bass in the minor there on the F minor.
There's another little idea for that kind of bass that's rocking between the little finger and the other fingers.
Tons of bass ideas!
We're going to look at some more in the next video.
About the instructor
Paddy Milner está reconocido como uno de los mejores pianistas de blues del mundo: actualmente es el teclista de confianza de Sir Tom Jones, tras varios años con el gran y ya desaparecido Jack Bruce, pero también es un magnífico compositor original y un cantante con personalidad propia. ¡Basta con leer los elogios de figuras como Dave Brubeck que aparecen más abajo! Su forma de tocar apareció en la banda sonora de la exitosa película de 2019 'Rocketman'. Ha ganado dos veces el premio al Mejor teclista en los British Blues Awards, y mantiene una residencia de larga trayectoria como miembro fundador de la Ronnie Scott's Blues Explosion en el mundialmente famoso club Ronnie Scott's. Su grupo actual LONDONOLA toca música británica de cosecha propia con una buena dosis de espíritu de Nueva Orleans, y su grupo colaborativo JAWBONE va de fuerza en fuerza tras la publicación de su álbum de debut homónimo. "Me encanta... hay un tipo que sabe tocar de verdad el piano" - Dave Brubeck "Lo recomiendo encarecidamente. ¡De algún modo las cosas empiezan a sentirse mucho mejor!" - Jack Bruce "El mejor pianista de blues de Europa..." - Blues Access, EE. UU. "Impresionante y original" - The Times "Deslumbrante" - The Independent A lo largo de sus cursos, Paddy desglosa el auténtico shuffle de blues, el slow blues, el boogie-woogie, el rock 'n' roll y el piano de Nueva Orleans -incluidas tres canciones clásicas de boogie-woogie- para que aprendas estos estilos de uno de los mejores del oficio. read more