Excerpts from LEARN BOOGIE WOOGIE PIANO

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Read This First

• About this book
• How to use this book
• The essential anatomy of a boogie woogie

Section One: Develop the Foundation Skills of Boogie Woogie

• Chapter 1: How To Use This Section
• Chapter 2: Select a Bass Line and Make it Solid (excerpt)
• Chapter 3: Add Rhythmic Chordal Patterns
• Chapter 4: Learn The Extremely Versatile Pickup-Putdown
• Chapter 5: Learn Some Two-Bar Figures (excerpt)
• Chapter 6: Combine Pickup-Putdowns With Two-Bar Figures (excerpt)
• Chapter 7: Learn a Turnaround

Section Two: Play Boogie Woogie

• Chapter 8: How To Use This Section
• Chapter 9: Create Choruses: Mix and Match Fundamentals (excerpt)
• Chapter 10: Using Chord Changes for Variety
• Chapter 11: Learn the Pinetop's Boogie Woogie Figure
• Chapter 12: Limitless Variations on Pickup-Putdowns
• Chapter 13: Four More Building Blocks (excerpt)
• Chapter 14: Signature Turnarounds
• Chapter 15: Beginnings, Breaks, and Endings
• Chapter 16: Advanced Bass Lines
• Chapter 17: Putting It All Together
• Chapter 18: Where to Go From Here

Appendices

• Appendix A: The Basic Boogie
• Appendix B: The History of Boogie Woogie
• Appendix C: Analysis of Four Classic Boogie Woogies (excerpt)

Bibliography

Selected Discography