Alright.... Thanks for that mate! Cheers to yer good ears!!!

merci !! thanks for your kind words and perceptive judgment!!

"no baby. you da man, MT." "no no baby really. it's all about you. YOU da man Mark ." yeah, you right MT. it's all about me." thanks. sincerely, da Man

glad you find it of use. check out my stormy monday video. the singing is meh...alright, but i think you'll enjoy the piano playing.

Michael Hadac and

Thanks ❤

Very nice to hear your appreciation of my music. ¡muchisimas gracias! from Frankfurt, via California.. Say hello to Denia if you are nearby. Tell her I miss her. mi suegra alemangna sold her house there, and we can't go there to stay for free anymore :(

+Chris Horton thank you. i try to entertain as well as impart my store of "golden knowledge".

¡horale! Verdad. You don't need a lot of note, but you do need the feeling. I am not holding my breath waiting for the millions. I don't want to die. But it 's a nice thought. The 3 million dollar lesson.

yeah baby. nice pattern. a little worn out, but it's the really deally. Persian. my mother in law gave it to me. an artifact from her golden days as the golden daughter of a high powered Frankfurt lawyer before the big fall, his, hers, the whole country's , but we won't go into that.

hi chris sorry about the narrow focus i'll make another soon with the camera more appropriately placed there are two other driftin blues vids on my channel . thanks for the commentChris Horton

Okay. I'll make one some time next month if I can't get to it right away. To start, just practice left hand alone ( no right hand. til it's solid., automatic. ) You won't be able to be free with your right hand til your left is solid and auto magic. just 1 2 3 4. Quarter notes. Bang Bang Bang Bang "four on the floor", like a jazz guitarist in a big band would play, in the 40's, 50's. C E G Bb or C E Bb or just C and Bb then F A C Eb for f7 then G B D F for G7 if you want to practice like you're playing with a band with a bass player you can try this. E Bb (that's the 3rd and 7th of C7) then play Eb and above it, A (that's the 7th and 3rd of F7) Try it . You'll notice that the skeletal, pared down voicing of the chord, just the 3rd and 7th is enough to define the chord. And the notes are so close to each other that it makes it easy to go from one chord to another. Minimum movement. A key element for good "comping" e.g. chording. I'll demonstrate it for you when I have the chance.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oaiEgayUuLyogHk.htmlsi=UbNhPAmiWJCufoVT Well guv, seems like i forgot that i already made one.

Hello, Angeli, I have "come at it" from my own angle and direction. I listen to a few particular pianists, Les McCann specifically, along with all the great jazz pianists, I play along with the records, I rarely memorize other pianist "licks" though I am told I should. I have studied jazz harmony and piano technique, enough to expand my vocabulary whilst playing the blues, but not quite enough ( of the really hard work, like block chords) to be a "real jazz pianist" or be-bopper. I have, in the last 2 years, at age 59-61, found some previously untapped level of discipline, and have endeavored to improve my basic technique, directly as it applies to "burning", playing FAST, which one must be able do if one wishes to play jazz with other hight level musicians.. I was lucky to find, amongst the 100's of tutorials and offers of lessons on youtube, Dave Frank's "learn to burn" tutorial, and I've worked on it, on and off for 2 years. If you are interested in jazz piano, a beginner, intermediate or "sort of advanced" pro like me, you'll find his lessons extremely well focussed, organized so that they are easy to use in your daily practice. He taught at Berkelee, he has learnt and incorporated literally all the styles, from Errol Garner to Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett, and Herbie Hancock, into his own, and can delineate the essences of those styles for ya. The beginner's vids are very good, the basic elements of jazz harmony and application to chording and soloing. The " 15 stylistic elements for advanced solo jazz pianists" vid is awesome in the breadth (and quality) of its content. Thanks for the comment. Good luck with your playing. I will post some more blues soon. Not a lesson, Just me doing Stormy Monday and a few other tunes, solo.

thanks van. i may do one with guitar. if i can find a band that can back me proper like. oi . hard to find innit? a band that can play a slow blues groove with swing and intensity. that's why i ended up playing solo piano. the only groove i can count on... sorry to report...is mine!!!

Whom would u recommend listening to?? I only know oscar peterson but i need other suggestions

Omar Al-Nizamy for basic and boogie blues piano Memphis Slim and Pinetop Perkins. for jazz and blues with a funky gospel feeling Les McCann is the man. I have listened 1000's of times playing behind Lou Rawls on the "stormy monday" album with jazz standards, ballads and blues. for solo blues with vocals, Charles Brown, for very sophisticated blues and boogie solo piano and singer Willie Mabon is very inspiring. but hard to find.

marktarmannpiano thank u so very much, this is a great compilation.

you are welcome.. how are your piano playing and studies coming along?

OMAR!! what's happening with the piano!!!?@@omaral-nizamy3396

good to see you here brother!

Hey -mister -martins. How are the time concepts sinking into your playing? I'm bangjng my head again, against the insurmountably high wall of be bop criteria. bang ouch bang ouch. i should stick with the blues.

thanks for the message and much need ego massage Tony. yes i will post a complete version of driftin blues with vocals. cheers from lounge lizard hell

Thanks a lot Mark will look forward to hearing ...... Regards Tony

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Hi tony, I've posted the new version of driftin blues with 4 vocal verses it came out quite well ithink. thanks for the motivation to do it again . let me know what you think. Tony Fitz

marktarmannpiano marky...you are better than Art and the Skinny Wizard!!!!! they are losers compared to youse....

jordanwillrog That he is!

the pattern is really basic. It's the same one i use on "drifting blues level 2" here's the link kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arpkq5aBrpfGaac.htmlsi=X8NI3XbLQ9NePZ-b

its in F so its 1 4 5 in F. taking the 1 4 5 notes of the F major scale and that's your progression

a bit late innit guv? SORRY!!oh well here ye go kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aM6Rf7ShsrfceZs.htmlsi=zthNdWR_SZtzZeV5

I'm in Frankfurt, Germany. I haven't done Skype lessons, but I am willing to give it a go. You'd get a special introductory price for sure, due to my lack of experience in that regard. I'll be on the road for 2 weeks. If you want to try it.we can give a go and see how it works, and you can pay me by pay pal if it feels sastifactory. Feb. 3 or 4, or the next weekend after that if it suits your schedule better. 6 hour time difference to NY 9 hours to L.A. (It's 6:38 pm here now, and 9:38am in L.A. so we'd have to do it mornings 9-12 am your time if you're on the West Coast) give me your email address and i'll contact you via gmail and then delete it from this comment section

@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out did you get it?

it's well to the left , out of the shot. sorry mate. I know i promised to show it at the end, but I am attention deficit manchild, and i forgot. you can get that from the other two "drifting blues" tutorials, or any basic slow boogie woogie blues. low tech equipment, no proper booms, no engineers or camera womyn no editing expertise . WADDYOUSE WANT FA FREE ANYWAY? I'll put it on my list "make a left hand demo video" ...tonight..... 8pm. later..today "..fuck.!!!....where's me fookin list gone to?......MARGARET!???? MARGARET!!!?? where's me fookin list!??? Shite on a popsicle stick!"

i play guitar too, so I can tell you why. Because C is a piano key. It's easier to play blues on piano in C or F or G. The fingers fall more naturally onto the pentatonic blues scale notes and the left hand parts also, much easier somehow than in A or E. Guitarists don't like C or D or G much and they bloody hate F. Barre chords (for the rhythm parts) are way too high on the neck in D an C, and in F the barre chord is on the first fret, making it really hard to do the basic stuff unless you have incredibly strong first finger "barre-ing" ability. I can play blues on piano in any key, even C# or F# but it takes time and work, because those (and A and E ) are trickier than C F G. try it . you'll see why in a second. Once you get comfortable you can play in E and A, but never quite as easily as in C. Clapton plays driftin blues in E and A because the open notes, all the open string notes in standard tuning E A D G B E are notes used in those keys...E and A...so guitarists can use the open positions to play the rhythm ( and fills and solo) parts. It's much easier to make blues music in A and E on guitar, so naturally, trained or untrained blues musicians would have used those keys. .E and A are the "easy keys" on the guitar. (and bass)..so... therefore........ If you're intent on playing in a band, with guitar players, yes, you had better learn everything in E and A or you're not going to get the gig!!!!!!!!!! And if you work with female vocalists, you'll learn why it's a chore, They seem always to need or want to sing in "odd", less often used keys, like B or F# or G#

@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out Thank You for your answer! Yes. I'm talking about playing with a rock band of cause)) . I am baseman, but learning a blues piano. And that's why I have this question

Yeah, low tech old Boomer tries to make a POV vid. Sorry. maybe next time. :)

sorry. you'll see a similar bass on the other drifting vids i made. it's a standard boogie blues left hand part, probably the most commonly used pattern. You'll probably find it on other's tutorials. I'll try to put up a short vid in the next days, as you are NOT the first to make the complaint.

i made the vid demonstrating the left hand

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aM6Rf7ShsrfceZs.htmlsi=uaZTBxdgPN9FXISk

you can find that on any of 100 blues tutorials. a static, typical boogie style slow blue pattern. It's the same pattern on the "level 2 driftin blues" vid i made. here's the link.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arpkq5aBrpfGaac.htmlsi=X8NI3XbLQ9NePZ-b

Very glad you enjoyed it/ find it useful!!