'100" ULTIMATE BLUES RIFFS by Andrew D. Gordon ere L = he A Comprehensive Guide to some of the best Blues Riffs. Featuring Blues, Rock, Rhythm & Blues, Boogie Woogie & Gospel Styles. Cassette or CD recorded with left hand part on the left channel and right hand part on the right channelOF - 7078 "100" Ultimate Blues Riffs for piano & keyboards is another product in a series of internationally acclaimed instructional book/cassette or book/CD packages authored by musician/teacher Andrew D. Gordon. ‘This product is an exhaustive guide to the various phrases or “riffs” that make up Blues piano playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. This book is ideal for all levels of musicianship, from the beginner/intermediate student who is interested in understanding and playing the Blues to more advanced players that need new ideas to help stimolate their creativity. It is also useful as a wol for improving one’s sight reading abilities with the examples being in many different keys and rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and tlc Blues seale are also explained. There are five sections to the book" Section one contains basic Blues riffs, section two contained Rhythm & Blues influenced Blues riffs, section three contains Boogie Woogie riffs, section four contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section five contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. At the end of the hook there ure wwo completed Blues songs that contain many of the riffs in the front part of the hook showing you that by learning and memorizing these riffs you can string them together to build up a song with an infinite amount of possibilities. Learn how to play many of the phrases professional piano players use that you have heard but never been able to grasp Included with this book is a cassette or CD with the left hand part recorded on the left channel and the right hand part recorded on the right channel for play along purposes. There is also a drum pattern to help with keeping good time. An optional MIDI file disk is available for all computer formats as well as General MIDI keyboards & sequencers with disk drives. ison 1 882146 41-7 Sales & Shipping CREATIVE CONCEPTS PUBLISHING CORP. +2290 Fastman Ave. #110 | Venta a, CA 93003 dm) mone a 7 78! 28207 770OF - 7078 "100" Ultimate Blues Riffs for piano & keyboards is another product in a series of internationally acclaimed instructional book/cassette or book/CD packages authored by musician/teacher Andrew D. Gordon. ‘This product is an exhaustive guide to the various phrases or “riffs” that make up Blues piano playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. This book is ideal for all levels of musicianship, from the beginner/intermediate student who is interested in understanding and playing the Blues to more advanced players that need new ideas to help stimolate their creativity. It is also useful as a wol for improving one’s sight reading abilities with the examples being in many different keys and rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and tlc Blues seale are also explained. There are five sections to the book" Section one contains basic Blues riffs, section two contained Rhythm & Blues influenced Blues riffs, section three contains Boogie Woogie riffs, section four contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section five contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. At the end of the hook there ure wwo completed Blues songs that contain many of the riffs in the front part of the hook showing you that by learning and memorizing these riffs you can string them together to build up a song with an infinite amount of possibilities. Learn how to play many of the phrases professional piano players use that you have heard but never been able to grasp Included with this book is a cassette or CD with the left hand part recorded on the left channel and the right hand part recorded on the right channel for play along purposes. There is also a drum pattern to help with keeping good time. An optional MIDI file disk is available for all computer formats as well as General MIDI keyboards & sequencers with disk drives. ison 1 882146 41-7 Sales & Shipping CREATIVE CONCEPTS PUBLISHING CORP. +2290 Fastman Ave. #110 | Venta a, CA 93003 dm) mone a 7 78! 28207 770ABOUT THIS PRODUCT ‘Thank you for buying this book and I hope you receive a great deal of value from it. The object of this product is to show in a practical way how to play the various techniques, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint, that make up the Blues. The 100 phrases cover a multitude of musical ideas and by learning cach of these phrases and applying them you will build up large vocabulary. Blues songs are made up of repetitive melodic phrases and rhythmic patterns that are strung together and is just like learning a language whereby you first learn words which are then joined together to form @ phrase and which in tum form a sentence etc. This book is ideal for all levels of musician, from the beginner student who is interested in understanding and playing the Blues to more advanced players that need new ideas to stimulate their creativity. This book is also very useful for improving your sight reading skills with examples in many different keys and with many different rhythms. The Blues is the basis of most contemporary music whether it is Pop, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Gospel etc. and so I have divided the book into various sections: Blues phrases (or “riffs” as they aro often called) | - 33 are basic Blues riffs that are slow to medium tempos, Blues riffs 34 - 67 are ‘generally a little faster and have more of a Rhythm & Blues influence to them. Blues riffs 68 - 78 are up tempo Blues phrases with strong repetitive bass lines giving a Boogie Woogie feel to them. Blues riffs 79 - 93 are Rock influenced Blues patterns while Blues riffs 94 - 100 are very much in the Gospel tradition. ‘At the back of the book I have composed a couple of Blues songs using only the riffs in this book encouraging you to pick your favorite riffs from this book and do likewise. Also I hope that you will be able to use these riffs as a basis to create your own phrases. I would love to hear any of the songs you compose so please send a tape and 1 will more than happy to listen and respond. My other books “Outstanding Blues & Jazz Compositions” Beginner - Intermediate and Intermediate - ‘Advanced levels have various compositions using many of the stylistic approaches in this book. ‘The audio cassette or CD that comes with the book has all the 100 riffs recorded with the piano left hand part on the left channel and the piano right hand part on the right channe]. This enables the keyboardist to isolate each of the left and right hand parts when listening on their stereo system that has @ balance control. When you tun the balance control to the left, only the left hand part will sound enabling you to practice the right hand in conjunction with the cassette and vice versa with the right hand part. There is a drum pattern recorded along with the piano parts with a four beat click intro to help the individual keep time. Also, for the people who want to improve their ear training skills you may want to listen to the individual parts and then try to duplicate what is played on the tape. I personally find I am able to memorize music quicker when I pick music out by ear than from ‘musical notation, Obviously the book can be used to locate the notes that you are no: able to find by listening. A special thanks goes to Dr. De of Sound Productions where the CD & cassette were recorded. ‘There are two important aspects to know about when playing Blues songs and they are the 12 bar blues progression and the blues scale.The 12 bar blues chord progression is 12 measures in length and once the end of the twelfth measure is reached the progression starts again. Measures 1 - 12 12 Bar Blues Progression in the key of C 1 2 3 4 5 6 z rr) 10 ul 12 coc7 clo oc? oF?) 6FT 6c? oc? GF FF cr G7 ror or ot wow it I Vv Vv I v As can be seen from the above example of the chord progression, the first four measures consist of the C7 chord which is then followed by two measures of F7. The F7 is then followed by two measures of C7 leading to one measure each of G7, F7 and C7 before finishing with the G7 chord. ‘The G7 chord is the last chord of this progression leading perfectly back to measure one, C7. To put this idea into universal terms we can identify each note of the scale as a Roman Numeral ‘Therefore since we are playing in the key of "C* the C7 chord would be "I", the F7 chord would be "IV" (Fis four notes up from C) and G7 would be "V". This formula enables us to immediately ‘transpose this and any other chord progression into other keys. This is very important in studying the harmony of a piece of music. Make sure you thoroughly understand and memorize this basic chord progresion as there are literally thousands of songs with it, in all keys. There are variations on the blues progression but this example is probably the most common. ‘THE BLUES SCALE The blues scale is a scale used frequently as the 3rd., 5th. and the 7th. of the major scale is flattened by half a step giving that "Bluesy" sound. Analyze the examples in the book to find phrases that utilize the blues scale. The blues scale combined with the major scale will generate an infinite amount of phrases commonly used in all these styles of music. Bluse Seale tn Bie Res OF8 The Blues scale in the key of G consists of the following notes in the scale: I- bill - IV-- by - V -bVv— - vIn 1 bit Iv bv V bva vIn G BoC pb D F G PRACTICE THIS SCALE IN ALL KEYS ‘When playing in a certain key, the blues scale for that key is used throughout the whole 12 bar progression even though the chords are changing. For example if you are playing a 12 bar blues progression in the key of G then the blues scale of G is used while playing the I chord (G7), the IV chord (C7) and V chord (D7). -NOTICE TO COMPUTER AND SEQUENCER USERS ‘This program comes with an optional MIDI file disk and loads into your sequencing program by selecting " LOAD MIDI FILE”, please refer to your manual for further instructions. Load in the composition that you want to practice. Track 1 will be the piano right hand MIDI ch. 1, track 2 will be the piano left hand MIDI ch. 1 and track 3 will be the drum pattern MIDI ch. 10. A ‘standard General MIDI drum machine was used for the drum notes. APPLICATIONS FOR THIS PROGRAM * Mutz one track and play the muted track live while the sequencer is playing the other parts. * Control the tempo to your skill level. As your skill level inereases then increase the tempo. Transpose the key. Practice the riffs in keys other than what is written by transposing the key of the sequencer. * Ear training exercises. Listen to one track at a time at a slow tempo and try to pick out the notes by ear, refering to the notes in the book only when in doubt. * Loop a difficult part so that you can practice it repeatedly to get it right ‘The MIDI file disks are formatted for Atari, IBM, Macintosh and Amiga computers as well 12s General MIDI keyboards and sequencers with disk drives. 3 ABasic Blues Riffs a BLUES RIFF 1 ass 0 88bpm. 3 1 C7 BLUES RIFF 2 207 We |BLUES RIFF 3 ia, BLUES RIFF 4 90b.pan. oF oe we PO raat oS 1 ce a A, 3cBLUES RIFF 5 60bpm. - 2 Ab. cys _ g 3 Eb7 Ab7 4 Eb? E9 Epo BLUES RIFF 6 l Oo Hs eH 26 csi ————— = = SS as ==3 Bb? 68pm, 1 Bb? ID 90bpan. AMT — i ma mH eK 2 BLUES RIFF 7 By 2 Bb? By Bo? 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" BLUES RIFF 85 26 35 3Fi BLUES RIFF 86 10pm. * Lc 267 3c 6 G7 tremolo wis al a &l 110b.p.m. G7 BLUES RIFF 87 2 3 1300.p.m. BLUES RIFF 88 2c710bp.m. BLUES RIFF 89 1 G7 2 3 sliss ycdecdecdecdecsecdecsec geet o BLUES RIFF 90 ca Bébpm. 1 yet ee _ _90b.p.m. BLUES RIFF 92 1 Al 2a BLUES RIFF 93 thotGospel! Influenced Blues Riffs * ‘94 to 100 S9bpm. BLUES RIFF 94 oF 2 aoe” 4 Fedim aay 5 C | 6 oG 7 Csusd C m3 gcn ; oc 105b.pm, BLUES RIFF 95 1 Fil 2 3F 4 5 Fil SS be a oe w a80b.p.m. BLUES RIFF 96 LST SP PAR Caim 3 Dit 130b.pmn. BLUES RIFF 97 2 390b.p.m. BLUES RIFF 98 b ~ » z 3 b F 1105p.m. BLUES RIFF 99 wes 3 g c aa + or ~ co RHR RIA] RHR RH pH wae 4ome S6b.p.m. BLUES RIFF 100 cm? 27 3 Fm7 Boll GT*5*9 Cr 55 OO FES Fm9 Bb? 8 Ebmaj? Blues Songs 1 & 2 ‘The following six pages show how to combine various riffs from the book to create two blues songs. [hope by studying how this is done you wil be able to do the same either by using the riffs in this book or creating your own. Although in each of the songs I have used many different types of bass lines to offer variety, in reality, the bass line is generally constant, with some variation. ‘Under both the treble and bass clefs there is an indication showing which riffs are being used and for how many measures in length. Also, some of the riffs have been transposed from the original key to the key of the songs, this is also indicated.110bp.m. c7 BLUES SONG 1 27 Blues riff 31 (measures | to 3) lues riff 1 (measures | to 5) F7 oH 5 HH 3 Blues riff 1 (measures 3 to 5) Fo ET FTO Oa FT Bives riff 3 (measures 5to7) wansposed from E7 to F7 Blues riff 2 (Treasures 5 to 9) Cin transposed from D710 F7 ia ™~ = Blues riff 4 (measures 7 to 9) —s —— = = — SS = => 2H 88 eR ee F7 Blues riff 6 (measures 9 to 11) Bias riff 6 (Measures 9 fo 13) I TaD es mo YE ey a] —_— Blues riff 10 (measures 11 to 13) I a ype ol =e Z = = a 65mF TI TST OF 13.5) 12 3 Blues riff 9 measures [3.0 15) iO Blues riff 10 (measures 13 to 17) FE sg tansposes from D710 C7 FI transposed Hom ASRS Blues riff To measures 15 to 17) = We FO TIT TIT — rs \ — = to = —- = as = -—_ = Blues riff 16 (measures 17 to 19) transposed from Bb7 to F7 SS == | Serer = =| <= cy BRS eases 171020 rans 18 IA FP mF PA , ee 2 oT ehe ot E> mat A ==; f = a Bjuesriff18tmeasures |9t020)Biues riff 20 (measures2010?1) insposed from D9 to C9 | transposed from Bb7 to C +; = 3 = SSS F a Hp5 sp sig Re BRR OID IR Blues tiff 23 (measures 21 to 23) transposed from A7 toG7 1es riff 22 (measures 21 to 25) ‘transposed from C7 to G7FI I BCT qs MFT I, 257 Blues riff 24 (measures 23 40 24) Tues rift res 24 to 25) Bivesriff28(meas.25 10 26) transposed from G7 to C7 | | eae nit 2iTmeastres 26 FT mee ce ye TI transposed trom ATtO C7 Blues riff 42 (Measures 261027)” © P® |piues rift 59 (measures 27 10 29) transposed from Bb? to C7 = = 29 FT HT eH pA HNC = Blues riff 90 (measures 29 to 31) ¥ ‘Blues riff 89 (measures 31 to 33) transposed from E7 to F7 Blues if 26 (measures 23031) = Blues te ems Biues riff 28 (measures 31 1033) 2 COE wy Gt 34 FT [Blues riffaetme: transposed from, Bit to oe transposed from D7 to F7 = Biues iff 29 (measures 3310.37) 4 4 3 transposed from C*7 to = aa om ise 37 35 C7 Blues riff 13 (measures 35 to 37)4s 103 bp.m. BLUES SONG 2 L cr 2 = Blues riff 4medSres 1 105) transposed from |B toC Blues riff 91 (measures | to 5) 4 5 FI Blues riff 46 (meas. 5 to7) aL a 4 Bives riff 53 (meas. 5 to 7) transposed from A to F Blues riff 56 (measures 7 to9) _| transposed from E to C wo Coal Screens 9 9 G9 11 ¢9 ues riff 58 (measures 9 to I) transposed from DtoG ues riff 60 (meas.11 to 13) 2 13@ = transposed from Dto C beer eet emma seis Blues riff’59 (measures 13 0 17) 6g, aNSPosed from Bb 10 CBlues riff 62 (measures 15 to 17) transposed from G to C 16 17 FT 18 Blues riff 48(meas. 17 to 19) transposed from Dm to F Biues riff 61 (measures 17 to 19) transpased from D to F 19 CO 2 Blues riff 52 (measures 19 to 21) transposed from Bb to C Blues riff 62 ( measures 19 to 25) 21 G7 | 22 FL be. Blues riff 55 (measures 21 to 22) Blues riff 60 (measures 22 to 23) transposed form Bb to C transposed from D to F 23 CT 4 507 2 Blues rif 70 (measures 23 t0 25) a eee transposed from F to C 2 b Bives riff 65 (measures 25 d 29) transposed from B toCBlues riff 82 (measures 27 to 29) = Blues riff 95 (measures 29 to 31) b 4 F Blues ri 66 (measures 291030 Ek yansposed from Ebm to 31 C7 32 33G7 rs 2 Blues riff 99 (measures 31 to 33) Blues riff 32 (measures 33 to 37) Bestel Geauecaeas = > Blues rift 52 (measures 331037) FI 357 _Wansposed from BbtoG. 36 = 37:¢9 SS = =—— 2 ——— — z ss 4 rs o =‘Contemporary Keyboard Styles Fer The Absolute Begianer s aim contemporary aliernatnve or supplement to the traditional teaching piano/keyboard methods & is onc of the most comprehensive books on the market today for the absolute beginner. In this 72 page book there are 20 compositions feturing a wide variety of different styles imeluding, Rock, Classical, Blues, New Age, Latin & Country. The book contain all the rudimentary theory including: How to ‘ead treble & bass clef music notion: How to coun! & read rhythms: Major, minor & seventh chord formations as ‘well as the major & minor scales in all 12 keys. Tape or CD recorded 1 normal ot slow tempos for practicing purposes Avsilablezs Bool/CD $14.95 Bool/Cassere $14.9 Book/MIDI dink $24.95 ‘Outstanding Blues & Jurz Compositions Reginnerdntermodiate level package prevents an introduction to playing ‘Blues & Jazz inchading Gospel, Latin, New Age & Rock influences within the 14 compositions, This book {introduces you to various musical concepts such as. 12 bar Blues progression, welking & boogie woogie bass lines, ‘ipletthythms, acpeagios, blue notes «tc. Alvhough this product is for the beginner musician, it is Suggested that some Plano/keyboard technique is required. lees és the basis of mast Conemporary sves of mUSIC and hence ts would be 8 great starting point 19 develop these syle. 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