#9 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 1 (No Bull Piano)

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In this lesson we will be learning #9 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 1 (No Bull Piano).

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[thattablebloke]

Great video, be a few days of practice to get this movement I think, my fingers are slow.


(The turn takes up a DAH in the vocalization method right? I think I get the rhythm but I find myself sometimes automatically making that Bb on the second beat (fifth note on the staff)a DA. I think because I held that last note of the turn a little, and usually holding the note like that I'm using the DEE-BA vocalization you know? It's ingrained in me now and automatic. So it goes something like TRIPLET-DEE-BA-DEE-BA which is wrong. The turn I don't vocalise as TRIPLET-DEE as it's too fast to really vocalise, I'm just sorta doing the whole sound as an UNGH or TURN whatever, it's own thing, but hopefully that explains what I find happening sometimes. Not a big thing, if I concentrate I can get it, I think just practising the full rhythm a lot will do it, i.e the correct way TURN/DEE-BA/DA but still, I found it interesting, maybe be a common issue? Definitely helping me a lot with the rhythm stuff though, breaking through these little barriers.)


Do turns always cycle around the center note also? eg if you played just a sequence of descending notes in the same rhythm would this just be called fill as opposed to a turn? I noticed it's nice and easy to descend in a fast rhythm like that if you slide off a black note to start, sounds quite nice, doesn't work with a turn though if you cycle back to the center note.

[kaylamathews]

Playing by ear, the video is still very helpful, but I wish I could understand sheet music 😖