Blues Standards - Cast Your Vote!

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Vote for the next blues standards here:

Vote for up to 5 blues tunes to be covered in the blues section of the website: https://www.pianogroove.com/blues-piano-lessons/

As lessons are created, they will be striked through with a line.


  • All Blues
  • Au Privave
  • Bag’s Groove
  • Billie’s Bounce
  • Birk’s Works
  • Blue Monk
  • Blues for Alice
  • Moanin
  • C-Jam Blues
  • Cheryl
  • Equinox
  • Freddie Freeloader
  • Freight Trane
  • Mr. P.C
  • Now’s The Time
  • Sonnymoon For Two
  • Take The Coltrane
  • Goodbye Porkpie Hat
  • Watermelon Man
  • West Coast Blues

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5 songs are too few :smiley:

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Yes I agree Michele… I plan to get more tutors on board so that we can cover them all.

cheers :slight_smile:

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Moanin by Bobby Timmons please

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Good call Lori!

It’s a minor blues which is different from the basic and jazz blues form… perhaps this can be a series of lessons exploring the minor blues form and then using Moanin as the practical study.

I’ve swapped it into the poll above… I replaced one of the tunes with no votes.

I also voted for it :grinning:

The next 2 lessons are ‘Estate’ and ‘Satin Doll’ and we will come back to a blues study soon.

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hi, I just do not know them well enough to vote at this point… but, ego aside, I had to vote for my namesake. Aloha

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Thanks for casting your votes Cheryl… I like that everyone can have a say on new lesson topics.

Have a search for some of the tune titles in YouTube or Spotify… you might find a new favourite :grin:

Cheers.

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How about Goodbye Porkpie Hat, which also provides, in addition to the blues, opportunities to discuss chord substitutions?

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Hi Josh - thanks for the suggestion… great tune and I’ve added it into the poll above to keep track of it.

We’ll be covering more blues tunes soon.

Cheers.

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Before You Accuse Me.

St Louis Blues

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Great suggestions… thanks Randy.

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Hayden, I’d love Stormy Monday. One of my all time blues favs. And by the way, thanks so much for reaching out and asking us.

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My pleasure Bryan… thanks for submitting the tune :slight_smile:

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https://youtu.be/BAwM70e18s4

You can learn this song from just listening to it!! Jimmy plays it so simply and yet with such groove and feeling. He almost makes me believe that I CAN be more amidextrous and swing the blues…

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Lovely recording Lori…

A great example that a solo doesn’t have to be virtuosic for it to swing and have a groove!

I’m very excited to bring blues tutors on board to cover this style in more detail. I’m aiming for the next 3-4 weeks to have at least 1 or 2 more courses on the blues and also the minor blues form as we discussed above.