Excerpts from LEARN BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO

Create Choruses: Mix and Match Fundamentals (excerpt)

This chapter explains how to use the foundation skills as building blocks for improvisation and composition.

You can develop this ability in several phases:

Learn how to mix entire choruses from the exercises in Section One.
Learn how to play choruses by mixing bats from the exercises in Section One.
Learn how to play melodies using small bits and pieces from the exercises in Section One.

Following are examples of each. Learn these examples. Most importantly, make up your own.

Learn how to mix entire choruses from the exercises in Section One

Figures 9-1 and 9-2 consist entirely of exercises from Section One. Each one has two 12-bar choruses. When playing these exercises, be especially attentive to the transition between one chorus and the next.

Figure 9-1.

Figure 9-2.

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