This easy play-along follow-up to Blues Piano, Volume 1 is the learning blues pianist's ticket to the next level! David Cohen helps develop the powerful grooves beloved by blues and rock n' roll players alike. His unique step-by-step teaching method is modular, building logically on each preceding section. Once the basics are mastered, adding walking basses, boogie woogie lines, New Orleans-style rhumba rhythms, 9th chords, "the Fats Domino shuffle" and other variations become second nature. LEVEL 3
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Blues from the ground up,
By Martin A (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: David Bennett Cohen Teaches Blues Piano, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Over the past two years, I have laid hands on just about every "learn piano blues" book I have been able to track down. Some helped me a lot, others less so. Some were fine for an outright beginner, others needed you to be a fully trained musician to make any sense of them.Daniel Cohen's book is based on an assumption that you know musical notation as far as you would learn it in the first few months of normal piano lessons. Apart from that, he starts at square one. Daniel Cohen's book includes a CD. Even if you read music 100%, the inclusion of a CD is important. Blues rhythms are only approximated by musical notation, so you need to be able to *hear* them if you are going to play them right. He starts from ground level - the is no assumption that you already know the chords for a 12-bar blues. Step-by-step exercises quickly get you playing simple but satisfyingly authentic sounding blues patterns. Then he shows you a number of simple building blocks that can be put together to make your own blues solos. He goes on to cover turnarounds and endings - more blues building blocks. The way Daniel Cohen presents his material all hangs together - for example he gives a demonstration of how the blues scale of the root note sounds fine when played over the three main chords of a blues tune. As soon as you have heard this and learned the notes of the scale, you will be picking out your own blues solo patterns. One of the nice aspects is how Daniel Cohen's enthusiasm for the music comes across and how he gets you to avoid hangups that might otherwise inhibit your blues progress. Obviously, one 24-page book (and its 54-track CD) won't cover everything. But if you work through each of the exercises, it will get you off to a very good start on your way to playing blues piano. And you will be on the way to REALLY playing the blues - not just being able to trot out two or three songs with no further way forward. "Daniel Bennett Cohen Teaches Blues Piano" gets my wholehearted recommendation, with no reservations at all.
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An Absolute Gift from Mr Cohen,
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This review is from: David Bennett Cohen Teaches Blues Piano, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
I'm going to sound like I'm gushing here, but I can't say enough about the series 1 and 2 book/cd combos from this artist. I had searched for exactly this for quite awhile. After purchasing several other "Blues" books I was a bit discouraged. Then I found these. WOW! As he's teaching you can tell how much he loves the music, loves teaching, and genuinely desires it to be useful to you. I can tell from these he's a good man. Using simple basslines and written out solos, along with improvising ideas and rythm patterns he takes you quickly to the point of sounding like a real bluesman(blueswoman). Between the two volumes (you really will want both, trust me) he teaches you some beautiful slow blues. Some of the other basslines he provides lend themselves very well to the Slow Blues. Plenty of shuffle rythm blues in volume 1, and some really cool, driving straight time rythm boogies in volume 2. Thank you very much for these David!
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Talk about Blues you can Use!!!!!!,
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This review is from: David Bennett Cohen Teaches Blues Piano, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
As I wrote in the review of Book1, David makes everything accessible.
There is plenty of guidance from the author on the CD.
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Blues is a form of folk music, and as such is usually not played the same way each time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Blues is a form of folk music, and as such is usually not played the same way each time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eighth Note Rhythm, Boogie Woogie Bassline, Solo Number, Rumba Number Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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