How To Play Soulful Slow Blues (like Ray Charles)

Soulful Blues licks with mellow jazzy chords define this expressive style.
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[@charlottesaunt2749]

I’m 82. This is the sound I’ve been searching for my whole life. Thank you

[@stradaveriusfiddle]

Yep, me too, and I’m 65, playing since the 1970’s. Thanks Christian!

[@charlottesaunt2749]

I’ve switched to drinking earl grey tea in hopes that it will make me sound like you😂

[@charlottesaunt2749]

Christian do you have anything written out for this video?

[@robertsloat662]

@@stradaveriusfiddle You might like this one too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmHRo4V8hbJ7bZI

[@roberthavard6930]

All what I was looking for!!!🙏🙏🙏

[@m8rc3l]

Great lesson. To me, you're also a jeweler, because all these lessons are 24 karat gold! Thanks, Christian!

[@willsgarden]

This is THE BEST ever. Demonstrate, explain theory along the way, great licks....you are the best Christian from Berlin. Danke Request: show the slow fingering on some of the fast licks.

[@Oklatucky_Guitarman]

I’ll be watching this one again and again.

[@tonyr.4778]

Excellent. Hope you do more of these slow ray Charles stuff.

[@martinfinnmusic]

Hi Christian, great to see this video. It's so hard to find authentic tutorials on Ray's style. :)

[@Myaccountishacked]

Hello Christian 🥀 another great tutorial! Thank you.

[@eduardogonzalezmotos1396]

Thanks teacher Christian 😊😊

[@jaykay1053]

Best lesson ever! I love the characterization of jazz chords in the left and blues in the right. There is so much foundational help, along with teaching the actual how-to. Excellent! I’m sure I can do this now - a sound I’ve always wanted to understand a play. Thanks so much.

[@RayDAider1]

Jazz in the left hand blues in the right. That's exactly what he's doing and this is the first time I've ever heard this put into words!

[@arthurroschbooksandmusic7700]

Indeed, I'm 75 and started piano study 3 years ago. Blues is at the center of my endeavor: blues and jazz, I should say. I need you , my brother!

[@arthurroschbooksandmusic7700]

I started drums at fourteen. I had my heroes: Elvin,Tony, Blakey, Philly Joe....etc etc.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

I like them all!

[@fasteddie8782]

I'm 63 jam in my whole life. But I just bought a piano Yamaha p45 I love it jam record a bit today I got a looper..rc600 and I also play guitar drums harmonica bass little fiddle. Try tosing some.. have a blast

[@booskalanka3447]

I really like your approach. Focusing on prime elements of that feel. Love it. ❤

[@davidhernandez-uw1gj]

Greetings Another great piano tutorial ❤ Beautiful

[@pianosaxophone2407]

You are the Best ( Domingo Blues)

[@fasteddie8782]

I love how you present your material with the staff showing the chord, I do understand theory, ain't no expert but I just need to memorize the keyboard better and play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play play

[@denisivanov2522]

Your lessons are fantastic and amazing❤ thanks master. Blues is best 🎶🎶🎶

[@melvingentry7158]

Great lesson Sr.Thank you so much.❤

[@Hamfantasy56]

Bellissima lezione

[@naturesparks]

Fuchs du hast die gans gestohlen ! 💯💪💪💪 the sound i have been looking for for a long time .I love your stuff !

[@matejgornik8138]

I love your instant solutions, concentrated and clear

[@rprimrose1]

Great stuff! 🎶👍🎹

[@alexnagshineh2568]

Simply excellent tutorial

[@justinnathanael9539]

Thank you Christian!

[@virginiafiume5751]

Love it

[@metgirl5429]

Wow .. love it ♥️

[@dojomisogi1601]

Thanks Christian! 👏👏🎹🎹🦊

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

So you are saying you are not adding this to your list??

[@dojomisogi1601]

That means I have added to the someday will do it list, thanks to God 🙏 I have so many issues open on your crash course learning... At this time Kansas City pretty well , take five I've reached the solo, all blues to my surprise is going smoothly.. then new Orleans workouts, rock and roll workouts and so on ... There is so much good stuff from you ... What I still miss are regular classes with you ...always thanks and hope to go there for some intensive training anytime... 🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏🎹🎹🦊

[@dojomisogi1601]

@@ChristianFuchsBlues and waiting for smoke on the water tutorial ... I got hooked on it ... 😬😘🎸🎹🦊

[@Ozgurs_piano_journey]

Hi Christian, I wish I had come across this one sooner! Great course!:) Grüße aus Mainz...

[@johnmackenzie3030]

A really great lesson . Thank you so much

[@chriscatapano1788]

I loved this lesson..It took me a bit to get the intro down, but I look forward to my chicken sandwich now !! Thanks Christian !!

[@mybrucester858]

So glad. you focused on the bass chording for the blues...Ive had trouble with this finding such rich voicings...kudos Christian

[@chriscatapano1788]

Great lesson Christian

[@barnybeatz]

Thanks a lot this means a lot to me I’m very young and I recently join a band I was told to go study Ray Charles approach on slow blues ❤❤❤❤

[@TonyProcure]

Serious interest in listening you do full covers of each song, from your lessons: each cover utilizing the features from that lesson.

[@HeinerStorchennest1]

Always a great sound, even in the dismantling phase I like to listen to your piano-style. Thanks a lot.

[@Tookitout]

I so need to invest in my family’s happiness. I will do it!

[@Tookitout]

…will have to borrow that cup of sugar.

[@arthurroschbooksandmusic7700]

I'm mad for voicings. I love learning new voicings and I've been searching for a blues sound that sounds a lot like what you are producing. Oh yeah!

[@wavester46]

So many great ideas to take away from this lesson. Thank you Christian.😁

[@tp63us]

Beautiful!

[@stormmusic6817]

This is so good ! Love your lessons ,thank you for your wonderful talent 👋

[@TheMaxxdog1]

Love it. Thanks so much for some great chords and licks. This lesson blends very well with some of the others eg. How to use Jazz Chords in Blues, Fat Chords etc. You definitely keep me motivated.

[@chrispiccolo8267]

Hi Christian, My name is Christopher and I am from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA. I am a blues 🎹 piano player. I love this video and I love Ray Charles and the style he plays. Thanks for this video because it gave me more ideas to improvise the blues Very much appreciated! I have enjoyed many of your videos! Keep up the great work!👍

[@MichaelSmith-ij5ur]

go birds

[@donnaprall6447]

Would you consider doing a tutorial on a Brenda Lee’s song called Break it to me Gently.

[@Pianoensolitario]

Vengo practicando blues dwsde hace un año... avance mucho con los bajo pero mw faltaba frases con la mano derecha... estoy tocando blues ahora

[@mariomanni13]

fortissimo bravo

[@kennedymuzyamba9988]

Thank you so much

[@liliya_piano1]

🔥🔥🔥

[@stephenbellotti2036]

This is really wonderful and I'm looking forward to the song this weekend which incorporates this. What I would also find really helpful is a video of right hand blues in C improvising. Something to show us ways to tie together all the pieces - magic triangle, drone lick, royal thirds, major/minor scale - into longer lines. Especially over 2 or more octaves. That's where I struggle. My lines go up or they go down. Yours go down, then up, then back down, then up a bit, then back down again and you use all of your bag of tricks in a single long line. I would like to watch that process in slow motion. THANKS!

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

My playlists are full that! You just have to look a little bit..;-)

[@stephenbellotti2036]

@@ChristianFuchsBlues I will keep looking! I think the problem is that you give too much! But my specific problem is that my longer lines always sound like dinky scale play. A good example of what I don't ever do, but want to be able to do is minute 24:57 in this video. I slowed that one down and I can easily see what you did. So that one is helpful to me. I noted another one I liked in your advanced Stormy Monday video. But even slowing that one down, I can't quite figure it out. If there was a trick or an a-ha moment to creating those kinds of more sophisticate lines that don't sound like a beginner hitting one blues scale note after another, I would definitely pay for a Patreon video on that. But perhaps I am just impatient and need to noodle more, listen to others more and practice more! And then I will figure out my own a-ha moment. Anyway, sincere thanks for everything you've already given which is more than enough!

[@zecaneumann9961]

You speak like a Inglish Good for you

[@davidfriedman7823]

Great.Have you done a tutorial on Hallelujah How I Love Her So

[@rickrocketts183]

Great video again, Christian. You persuaded me to look through your blues licks books, but I can't figure out which one is best for learning how to crawl up the bum of E7.

[@tonyr.4778]

I believe the E7 is the bum of F7 to crawl up, as Christian so uniquely phrased it.

[@benardmakalizu3399]

Smart

[@JohnFred1964]

Such a lesson ! How long I've been waiting for that ? Thousands of thanks. Just a little question... instead of speaking of major and minor C blue scale, could we say that you mix C blue scale and A blue scale ?

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Yes!:-)

[@urabaci]

Magnificent lesson. This style of music is what I try to learn the best I can to play with my piano. I would like to ask you, if it is possible for you, to tell me what program you use where we can see the keyboard, the score and the name of the chord that is played at all times. I apologize for my level of English but I do my best to make myself understood. Thanks.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Its called Chordie App

[@urabaci]

@@ChristianFuchsBlues Thank you very much Christian. I will continue learning with your videos. Are fabulous

[@christiantalboom]

You had to wait 9 months to get your baby...the most important thing i have learned with your video is that you always have to listen to your wife. By the way, you are a great jazz player.

[@brumanzarek]

Hi Christian, what software do you use to view the notes and chords? Thank you very much and cheers for your amazing work

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Its called Chordie App!

[@Jack-fs2im]

50 likes.I play jazz piano and copy Earl Hines using the 6 flat 6 and 9 and flat nine etc in a swing style of the 1930,s.His “1975 Earl Hines” on youtube is said to be the greates jazz doc ever made.

[@bobtuiliga8691]

"earn yourself a chicken sandwich" - LMAO!!!

[@Bustuma]

Let me guess : Christian is preparing a wonderful slow blues song 🤔

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

I actually announced that in the video! Don't skip in my videos!! ;-)

[@Bustuma]

@@ChristianFuchsBlues Sorry Christian, I already saw it after my comment and before your answer but as a musician after a mistake always continue with playing and don’t stop the music. When it was a quiz I won the jackpot. Cannot wait till Saturday 👍

[@vtertezedre2621]

too hard, too fast, you do mainly and all the time, fills, ornaments, without ever showing or talking about it!