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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781882146413
ISBN number: 1882146417
Label: A.D.G. Productions
Manufacturer: A.D.G. Productions
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 69
Printing Date: 1995-01
Publishing house: A.D.G. Productions
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Studio: A.D.G. Productions
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This best selling book, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs by Andrew Gordon is an exhaustive guide to some of the best musical phrases that make up blues piano/keyboard playing. There are five sections broken down into:
* Basic Blues riffs
* R&B influenced Blues riffs
* Boogie Woogie
* Rock influenced Blues riffs
* Gospel influenced Blues riffs The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale are explained. There are two completed songs at the back of the book that shows how to combine many of the riffs to form a song. Many people have commented that this is the best Blues keyboard product that they have ever used. A must for all levels of keyboardists that want to study the blues. All 100 'riffs' are recorded with the piano right hand on the right channel and the piano left hand on the left channel along with a drum track. Learn how your favorite Blues keyboardists play including Dr. John, Leon Russell, Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Otis Spann, Nicky Hopkins and many more!
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Had I noticed that this was by Andrew D. Gordon, I probably would not have bought it, based on his rhythm piano book, which I have reviewed and which was mediocre.
This book is far better. There are good licks in here that give insight into many techniques of blues piano from several different genres. They are not for beginners, but are not insanely difficult, either. Still, getting the tougher ones up to speed will take time for pianists who are not already technically accomplished.
Now that I've seen that this author can write a good piano book, I'm tempted to dock his other book one star.
This book would make a good companion to "Improvising Blues Piano" by Tim Richards, and everyone will find at least half of the 100 riffs to be very useful.
I recommend it!
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This book is a very good book on showing you bits and pieces of riffs/licks from blues, rock, gospel, R & B, and boogie woogie that will help enhance your playing. You can incorporate these licks in a variety of music. For example, I am incorporating these licks into my jazz and blues piano playing.
Some of the licks however, are not that good but for the most part they are very good. This is not a book that teaches you how to play the blues but gives you bass lines, 12 bar blues form and 2 pieces at the end of the book that show you how to combine the riffs to make your own songs.
A very good resource ranging from the intermediate to the advanced and it will help your playing sound better.
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I have not had enough time to thorougly play the entire book, but what I have reviewed is exactly what I was looking for. Might yet be a 5 star .
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I am finding this book/cd combo invaluable. Although a bit challenging, it makes learning to play the blues accessible and the riffs provide a great short-term goal, which keeps me progressing. It is exactly what I have been looking for and is as good as private study because of the CD. Yay, Andrew Gordon. Thanks!
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There are an absurd amount of Blues Piano books out there, most of which suck, and don't actually teach you how to play, or teach you only by sight reading where your hands and ears don't know the blues sound well enough. There are three exceptions though, and the three wonderful blues piano books that should be mandatory for anyone looking to learn and improve, be they beginner or advanced intermediate, are:
1. Blues Piano -- Mark Harrison
2. Improvising Blues -- Tim Richards
3. 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards -- Andrew Gordon.
The very first two out of the above mentioned three really take the time to give you a step by step method for understanding all of the blues genre, and how to develop both hands playing it, the scales, chordal theory, etc, along with dozens of great riffs. This book doesn't do that; it is, like other people have mentioned, a strict runs/licks book. However, with the examples chosen, you couldn't ask for more.
The riffs in this book are excellent; a lot of books on the blues, and people playing the blues, use some really cheesy riffs that sound very uncreative, uninspiring, and far too white. This book really hammers in tons of great sounding, truly bluesy riffs. It covers everything from funk, gospel, jazz, boogie woogie, n. orleans, and rock n' roll type of blues, and the way he transcribes the licks note for note really allows the player (with lots of practice!) to get a nice Ray Charles sound...aka: sounding natural, musical, and unforced.
I also like the fact that they aren't all in one key; I find that if a book uses only C or G then that leaves the door open to not practicing in other keys. This book forces you to learn different riffs in all kinds of different keys, and is one of the biggest reasons I was finally able to overcome my hesitancy with being able to transpose very common licks and runs into some of the harder keys to play that have more sharps/flats.
This book is great for both beginners through advanced intermediate...an invaluable resource to finally learn the riffs we've all heard thousands of times yet can't figure out ourselves. (The CD that comes with the book is great...played nice and slowly so you don't feel rushed, you can very clearly hear what's being played, and they are note for note transcriptions of the sheet music examples in the book).
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