Here is Bob Zurke’s “Hobson Street Blues” performed by pianist Martin Spitznagel at the home of Nawal Kamel on May 10th, 2008. Zurke is most famous for his work with Bob Crosby from 1936 to 1939, in particular for a spectacular recording of “Honky Tonk Train Blues.” In 1938 he won the Readers Poll from Down Beat, after which he left Crosby to form his own band, the “Delta Rhythm Band,” which ultimately proved unsuccessful. “Hobson Street Blues” was the Delta Rhythm Band’s theme song, and the sheet music is very clear on the nature of the performance: It instructs the pianist to play “As fast as possible.” Visit Martin’s website at www.spitzfire.com. His debut CD, “Tricky Fingers,” is available on iTunes and at http Video by Yuko Eguchi.
fastpianolessons.com Just added a new digital keyboard to the top of the videos! It looks pretty cool! It should help a lot of students who have been saying they can’t tell which notes are being played. Let me know what you think!!! This is a blues lick in C which slides of the Eb note… So that would make it based around the A blues scale.
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www.artistopia.com One of WC Handy,s all time classics featured in the 1950’s movie “St. Louis Blues”. Nat King Cole played the composer, WC Handy. This blues (circa 1921) was sung by Pearl Bailey in the movie. The sheet music that you see at the opening of this video shows the young WC Handy (center photo) and his band in ‘21. In 1994 Jim recorded this blues for Pianomania music on Yamaha Disklavier. It was then procured by “Front Porch Music Rolls” and issued on standard piano roll format.
Paul Bell teaches a tasty blues turn around lick on the keyboard. He teaches piano and keyboard lessons to beginner and advanced students in San Diego. We hope you enjoy. Do you have piano lesson video requests? Just post below, or visit us at: www.mcmillanmusicschool.com We teach the most enthusiastic guitar bass voice piano and drum lessons in San Diego, ca.
Piano Stories – Episode One: The 1917 Aeolian There’s an interesting trait that all piano technicians who rebuild pianos share. For reasons no one has ever been able to quite explain we all tend to accumulate pianos. It’s almost like they were dust bunnies in the way they somehow manage to pile up. Most of these pianos are well past any form of the word functional. In other words, most of them are junk. A piano rebuilding technician always knows when one of his rebuilding colleagues is in the process of moving their shop, because sooner or later a phone call is made asking if you would like a free piano or two. About four years ago, I received one of those phone calls from a friend and fellow rebuilder by the name of Roy. He asked me if I would like the “Aeolian”. I was familiar with the Aeolian he spoke of; it was a 1917 Baby Grand that was in horrible condition. The piano started life as a player piano, but over the decades since it was built it had long since lost its player unit, along with all of its finish ( and much of the wood beneath it ). Its strings were rusty, its hammers were shot; in fact, every moving part on it was shot. The keytops ,on the other hand, were in perfect conditon; I’ll never figure out how they survived. ” Why would you want this train wreck of a piano ?” you might ask. Well, the story of the Aeolian Piano Company is one of the great rags-to-riches-to-rags stories in American piano lore. In 1913, the Aeolian Company introduced its Duo-Art …
From www.PlayPianoTODAY.com , this is Blues Piano Course Ch. 8 (2nd Half) – Details of the “Extended Static Riff”. In addition, we’ll incorporate this riff into the 12 Bar blues. By this time, you’re really digging into the blues – many more blues piano lessons can be found at www.KeyboardBlues.com Check it out!
