The 5-Minute Blues Lesson (it’s easier than you think!)

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do you want to learn how to improvise blues piano well if you think that it'll take you years and years before you can improvise the blues i have some good news for you you can start improvising the blues in just five minutes even if you have never played a piano before in your life

and i'm going to show you how right now so hit pause on this video run over to your keyboard or your piano and get ready to learn how to improvise some blues alright the first thing to do is to learn your three blues chords they are very simple to play the first chord is

called a c7 chord and you're gonna play it like this now the way to find this chord is to look at your groupings of two black notes i'm right in the middle of my piano then i go three black notes two black notes and just under this lower black note we'll find our c

so we play this with our pinky we skip the d and we play the e with our middle finger we skip the f we play the g with our index finger we skip the a and we play the b flat with our thumb congratulations you just learned your first blues chord and we call this the

one chord the second blues chord you need to know is called an f7 chord and it's very easy to play if we start from this chord the c7 that you learned earlier and you shift that b flat down to a you shift this g down to f and this e down to e flat

you have an f7 chord congratulations you just learned your second chord in the blues and we call this the iv chord it's time to learn your third blues chord and this is called a g7 chord it's very simple to play so if we were to start from the f7 chord all you do