How to use the Blues Scale on Piano - Riff ideas from Paddy Milner | MusicGurus

Play Authentic Blues Piano with Paddy Milner full video course here: www.musicgurus...
Paddy Milner is recognised as one of the leading blues piano players in the world. Following years with the late great Jack Bruce, he's now the current keyboard player of choice for Sir Tom Jones. He is also a two times winner of the Best Keyboard Player category in the British Blues awards. He is part of the MusicGurus community and has a number of courses on Blues piano playing on the site.
“…there’s a guy who can really play the piano” Dave Brubeck
The aim of the course is to learn how to play a simple but authentic sounding 12 bar blues including elements of improvisation. Unlock the world of blues piano and open the door to a world of creativity! Paddy will also introduce the concepts that will enable you to benefit from the more advanced courses.Go from complete beginner to playing blues piano in 9 lessons!
In The Course:
Introduction To The Blues Piano
The 12 Bar Blues
Left Hand Bass
Comping
7th Chords & Inversions
Right-hand Riff #1 and variations
The 'Blues Scale' & Uses
Downloadable sheet music & PDFs
Special slow-motion and looping video player
More from MusicGurus:
All of Paddy's courses: bit.ly/2Sv9k40
Improvising Blues Piano with Tim Richards: bit.ly/3o3gtCH
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[@houmm08]

What a mild mannered nicely paced lesson. Thanks Mr Starkey

[@GeorgetteBu]

If these kind of instructions were available when I started music studies as a child, it would have made such a difference for me. I have over 40 years of theory under the belt, that I learned the hard way, especially being a young female serious musician in the 60's. Bless You For This!

[@sauliusltcool6902]

I know, it helps so much! I can say I already play a decent if not good blues and boogie-woogie. I learnt all about it from youtube.

[@amrmanel8905]

Didn't know Ringo could play piano this good !

[@finnmolenaar8610]

Seggsie

[@patriciakieley7997]

Hah! He does look exactly like a young Ringo!

[@nancyjanetsmith]

Thankyou for an extremely helpful slowed down demo. Wonderful!!!❤❤❤

[@LAKXx]

timing @ 3:50 helped so much, made me realize thats something most tutorials are lacking

[@IdealViking]

Love how you broke down the timing for the left with the right (4:00-4:20) thats whst I've been struggling with the most. Thanks!!!!

[@andybeatlestar5671]

Thanlks Ringo!!

[@supersuperstore2259]

Dude, to much of you and not enough of the keys. Nothing wrong with you mate but if I had one of you I wouldn't need to watch the video

[@smellslikeshitbreath]

😂

[@scottvrosenfeld]

🤣

[@jorrenec]

😂

[@averyprice9422]

😂😂😂😂

[@peterlorenz9766]

Thanks Mr. PIANO WIZARD! What a wonderful BLUES lesson. Starting with the BASICS...very essential. Great how you explain what to do. Very inspirational. Just THRILLING. Awesome... WISH (ME) YOU WELL 🙏🎹🙏

[@tadpolesoup]

I appreciate your simple and straightforward teaching method as it makes learning and remembering concepts much easier and faster than others I've encountered!

[@ericgamliel8500]

This is great. I feel like you just planted the seed of playing blues piano into my head. And all I got to do now is work it over and over again.

[@nbtd1959]

You are quite adept at the piano and your teaching ability. How you ever received 45 thumbs down is beyond me.

[@paulrhodesquinn]

Quite adept! You sure know how to give a compliment 😉. He’s one of the finest Blues players in the world, which is why he plays with Tom Jones and used to play with Jack Bruce and many other greats.

[@nbtd1959]

@@paulrhodesquinn He's one of the best that I've ever seen or heard, that's for sure.

[@Dan-wq8id]

My favourite online piano teacher so far! Thanks man

[@jeffjohnson7381]

Wanted to just say I love your lesson with the blues format…your explanation was excellent and would love to see more examples of licks runs etc with this style 👌🎹

[@GorZart]

Wonderful & understandable lesson. Please don't stop!

[@colettebonvarlet8511]

très instructif !! merci beaucoup 😊

[@Learn_Listen_Love]

Very good lesson

[@brunoadank6308]

...great....you are a great Bluesplayer and a great teacher...I will following with your Lessons...🇨🇭Bruno

[@redleaderone8429]

I started playing month ago and im just getting to this stage. I get it

[@TheGustavolicata]

You are good teacher. Thanks!!!

[@terrykosowick594]

Very nice lesson. Very clear and doable. Thanks so much!

[@johnborrell9021]

Thanks Paddy!! love the way you piano sounds!! Don't hear a lot of acoustic on you tube.

[@youssefbejjaj3825]

👍 you're definitely the greatest! Sir! I hugely love it! Thanks a lot!

[@alwayzblues]

Great lesson!

[@wendelljeong4734]

Great lesson! I'm learning a lot from this. Thanks

[@dmitrit81]

Thank you, it’s very interesting and useful 😌🎶

[@erelevant4543]

Thank you for this gift.

[@properjob]

Excellent video, very helpful to guys like me wanting to learn how to use the blues scale; the selection of riffs is a great bonus that gives me a lot to learn from. Thanks.

[@alexpineiro7960]

Very nice lesson Mr. Milner..Thank you for that

[@jeffjohnson7381]

❤this blues lesson…can you please explain some slow blues style..with left hand comp chords with right hand runs licks etc…really want to learn this type of music in depth as much as possible 🎹thanks again Grant😊

[@peterlorenz9766]

Awesome Mr. 😍 BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN 🎹 😍 just beautiful...so inspiring the way you present it...stunning stuff...Vielen Dank...WISH YOU WELL...GREETINGS from SPAIN

[@mtmals9786]

Good lesson. How good? You inspired me to work on just this all day. Thanks!

[@jasneskis]

Definitely advanced for my present ability. Hopefully some day.

[@KingRat355]

Very nice teaching. Its how you word each segment I like alot. Also slow and precise directions.

[@kayzaunbrecher1125]

Thank you for a brilliant lesson!! And that gorgeous U3 ? Yamaha has a twin in my living room:)) I keep mine open as much as possible and the sound blows me away. I’m going to be playing the blues very shortly, thanks to you!!

[@stephenomeara4965]

Awesome, thanks Paddy.

[@ZacharyToolsoet]

Thanks. Nice ideas, which I could work out immediately and play. Simple, but effective and useful. Sounds good when you play it. very clear. excellent video of the keyboard. So, technically great, attitude great, music great. Big help. Thanks a lot.

[@edrock26]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you, for these tips.

[@XTeam49]

This helped, ALOT!!! Thank you so much!

[@nonapogosyan9831]

Thank you so much for great lesson!!!🙏👍👍👍

[@geconucd]

Thanks Paddy. Really good lesson. Cheers!

[@MatthewRaymor1]

Wow! You are an incredible teacher!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@theophilusmartins]

Truth Taurus He really is I’ve come along way watching a few of his tutorials.

[@billrolfe7753]

Very nice, simple and well presented

[@Shrevestring]

Fantastic! Thanks! Great teaching also.

[@mikemarchev4585]

Hit wrong button. Thumbs up all around. Great stuff.

[@Danielmarj]

thank you very nice and clear

[@Nickramsdale]

Fantastic looking piano

[@izzy6863]

Great tutorial!! Thanks Paddy!

[@JOKERairsoft-j5l]

The best teacher form the blues

[@PJ-nh2dc]

The blues scale is a powerful tool

[@flintlong2937]

Great player! Great lesson! Sounds so damn bluesy! I love it! Great feel!

[@a320nick]

Effing excellent pianist.

[@EL_Newman]

Great tutorial thanks!

[@pantano207]

Good stuff. The pig of it, of course, is keeping the left hand going steady without sounding mechanical or manic.

[@theophilusmartins]

pantano207 That’s right! Once you have that down, you’re halfway there.

[@mrnettek]

Agree...I find it ridiculously difficult.

[@briankelly2670]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is struggling with the left hand.

[@Robertlavigne1]

The left hand is so brutal to get down. I have been working on learning a left hand pattern other than the basic shuffle. I've put 10 hours of solid practice over the last 2 weeks into it. Starting to come together but it is still so rough. I can play known licks over top of it now, but with any improvisation it all falls apart.

[@rcrewe3733]

@@briankelly2670 EVERYONE struggles. If you don't struggle you ain't human. Nobody was born knowing how to do this, or have it come easy. I've been at it over a year and just now getting a little comfortable with it (I'm still not there, but it's coming and now almost forgetting how hard it first was).

[@BaronVonRichtofen]

Banging good lesson thanks for posting

[@Boris_Chang]

Thanks mate. This is enough to go from zero to credible (and fun) jamming with friends in a garage band.

[@Sweence]

Great explanation of the blues scale! Thanks!

[@vansullivan236]

Thanks, great as usual!

[@bobeld1]

Thank you for this well-explained video.

[@keiferreefer1]

Haha, I second that, at first glance I thought, oh my Ringo is giving a piano blues lesson, I know he plays in C, he says so on a record, early 1970, ha. Anyway, I've been launched into blues lately, I'm a guitarist , but man, so important to know what the pianist is doing, blues piano adds a lot to the group, just like boogie as well. Pianos so logical sometimes compared to guitar. Yeah man, wow r u ever a dead ringer for Ringo at some point in his life, amazing resemblance .

[@SKEEZYBOY]

Sounds bloody good.

[@spenz1226]

Very good riffs, looks like the twin of ringgo is riffing 👐

[@northerneclipse9021]

Thanks for the many great lessons.

[@patrickhandels9461]

👍great lesson,thanks!

[@gilgillis2445]

Very good! Thanks!

[@kevinmilsom7439]

Makes sense! Can't wait to practice. :D

[@МаксимЧалий-х2ц]

Дякую вам.Чудовий урок))

[@chiseled_maori]

Great! 👍🏼

[@boldcautionproductions9203]

Thanks much for a great share. I'm shooting for this time, next year to be anywhere near able to play this...

[@SergioRizzolo]

Great work!!

[@s1mon1983]

Lovely piano - great lesson too !

[@xpansionteam1537]

Bloody brilliant pal cheers

[@jbhaus9109]

Awesome Paddy! Love it :)

[@rodbridge5710]

Lovely stuff, Thanks

[@defons1234]

Fantastic very informative video.thank you

[@paulallenMacca]

Nice video and playing man thanks for sharing it on KZbin.

[@mikegeeguitarman8991]

Really top teaching fella. Thank you so much

[@nightking1460]

Awesome!! Keep them coming

[@bachirtoudji3977]

Thanks so much !!!!

[@michaelcraig4617]

Great stuff....and fun!

[@tjsbeaner]

Love your videos! Please keep em coming!! I wanna learn as much as I can about blues. Can these lessons be good for the hammond organ as well?

[@talentlauraleaf42]

Thank you so much .... this really helps.

[@richarddavies962]

Quality

[@brnfrederick]

Thank you, very informative. Also, a very nice sounding piano.

[@luigi_youtube]

interesting lesson, thanks

[@DrTWG]

"Not sure that it exists" - why not ? Never heard that said before. The blues scale is what every guitarist knows - OK , the minor pentatonic (R,b3,4,5,b7) - but most know the b5 addition as well . You only have to drop it 3 frets to get the major blues scale (R,2,b3,3,5,6)

[@mdvs42]

Hi Paddy, just found you and diggin the teaching! got some new things to work on for sure,Thanks

[@macclift9956]

Brilliant!

[@nandosainz]

The Best teacher in WWW

[@mtmals9786]

Just spent over an hour on this. Doing this all week end.

[@megacrocosaurus]

Great video! You say ehm a lot but this is really helpful

[@ingy2001]

Thanks!

[@carolinesullivan7106]

This is great!

[@Poowiperwizard]

your a legend

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[@ronaldderonde]

Thats the way to do it. Thank you for the upload.

[@carlosbogarin1594]

Hi my friend, i stop playin piano in my yout, but that iam old and stell happy i getting back to it, i love the way u teach and play, would u teache me ,, FILING AL RIGHT BY JOE COCKER, OR LITTLE FROM MY FRIENDS, thanks bro DTB MEANS GOD BLESSES U,

[@mObbMD]

Nice!

[@wpmorel]

Thank you. Brilliant.

[@patricktruchon9153]

Really good. I noticed you move your thumb to your 4th finger in Left hand. Hard to tell if your playing the 5th with 4 or 5 finger. Intrigues me.

[@MG-kp4qw]

Excelente!