Tim Richards

Improvising Blues Piano

Release date 1997

Tracklist

1
Beginner's Blues
0:54
0:54
2
- with off-on chords in the right hand Fig 1.8
0:29
0:29
3
Beginner's Blues (Melodic)
0:59
0:59
4
- with left hand variation Fig 1.12(b)
0:41
0:41
5
Beginner's Boogie
0:55
0:55
6
- with broken octaves in the left hand Fig 1.15
1:00
1:00
7
Blue Third Blues
0:35
0:35
8
New Orleans Triplets Workout
0:42
0:42
9
Blueberry Hill (part 1) (play-along) - Fats Domino
0:54
0:54
10
Five-Finger Blues
0:45
0:45
11
Trill Blues
0:39
0:39
12
On-off Boogie
0:30
0:30
13
Happy Blues
0:52
0:52
14
Sad Blues
0:34
0:34
15
Blues for Booker
1:03
1:03
16
- left hand turnaround practice Fig 1.48
0:32
0:32
17
Sixth Blues (straight quavers)
0:33
0:33
18
Sixth Blues (triplet feel)
0:30
0:30
19
Jump Shuffle
0:59
0:59
20
C Jam Blues - Duke Ellington
0:47
0:47
21
Riff Blues
0:53
0:53
22
Sunday Afternoon Blues
0:39
0:39
23
- Barrelhouse left hand practice I-IV Fig 2.19(a)
0:37
0:37
24
- Barrelhouse left hand practice I-V Fig 2.19(b)
0:41
0:41
25
Barrelhouse Blues (play-along)
1:27
1:27
26
Blues with Pick Ups
1:01
1:01
27
Slow Blues in D
0:37
0:37
28
Blue Fifth Boogie
0:54
0:54
29
Syncopated Boogie
1:02
1:02
30
Back in the Alley - Cow Cow Davenport
0:52
0:52
31
Seventh Blues (play-along)
1:23
1:23
32
Blues for Sal
0:39
0:39
33
See See Rider - Ma Rainey
1:04
1:04
34
Smooth Blues
1:05
1:05
35
Blues in Thirds
1:06
1:06
36
Bouncy Boogie
1:02
1:02
37
On-off Boogie No.2
0:55
0:55
38
Blue Monk (play-along) - Thelonious Monk
1:58
1:58
39
Slow Blues in G
2:03
2:03
40
- left hand pseudo-stride (play-along) Assignment 2, p.115
1:29
1:29
41
Tritone Blues
0:58
0:58
42
Tritone Blues backing (play-along) Assignment 4, p.120
1:08
1:08
43
Got my Mojo Workin' - Muddy Waters
0:55
0:55
44
E Blues Scale Workout (play-along)
1:28
1:28
45
Ninth Blues
1:02
1:02
46
Slow Guitar Blues
1:15
1:15
47
Mary Ann - Ray Charles
1:36
1:36
48
Rolling Blues
1:02
1:02
49
- with left hand variation Fig 4.22
0:43
0:43
50
Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
1:40
1:40
51
Bag's Groove (play-along) - Milt Jackson
1:52
1:52
52
F Blues Scale Workout (play-along - stereo separation)
1:51
1:51
53
Comping Blues (play-along - stereo separation)
0:48
0:48
54
Down Home Funk
1:49
1:49
55
The Other Side (play-along)
2:02
2:02
56
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
1:15
1:15
57
Medium Jump
0:55
0:55
58
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
1:35
1:35
59
How Long Blues - Leroy Carr
0:53
0:53
60
Just a Closer Walk With Thee - Traditional
1:19
1:19
61
St Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
1:34
1:34
62
- right hand fills for St Louis Blues (play along) Fig 5.26
0:34
0:34
63
- right hand fills for St Louis Blues (play along) Fig 5.27
0:33
0:33
64
- G major pentatonic over neutral chords (play along) Fig 5.29
0:42
0:42
65
Slow 12/8 Blues
1:29
1:29
66
Four Finger Blues (play along - stereo separation)
1:06
1:06
67
C Jam Blues (second version) (play along - stereo separation) - Duke Ellington
1:23
1:23
68
Blues in Three
1:38
1:38
69
Minor Blues Workout (play along)
0:44
0:44
70
Rockaboogie
1:00
1:00
71
Back Street Blues
1:44
1:44
72
Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
1:44
1:44