Boogie Woogie and Blues music has always been a popular style amongst pianists, but it can be all too difficult to find interesting, effective and fun teaching methods - now you need not look any further! Discovering Boogie & Blues Piano by Wolfgang Wierzyk, for the first time available in English translation is the revised and expanded edition of the bestselling German title Die Boogie & Blues Methode” (SPL 1025). Taking you step by step through technical aspects of the playing style, as well a...

• Introduction
• Aims of the Course, History of Blues and Boogie
• The Blue Notes, the 12 Bar Blues Scheme
• Improvisation, Features of Boogie-Woogie
• Instructions for Use
• Star It Up
• The Beat Boes On
• Building the Melody: Alternating Thirds
• Building the Melody: Third Syncopations
• Experiments in Improvisation, Liberating the Drone Note
• It's Groove Time
• The Blues Scale
• The First Blue Note
• Double the Hands, Double the Groove
• Thickening...