Product Description

This best selling book, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs by Andrew Gordon is an exhaustive guide to some of the best musical phrases that make up blues piano/keyboard playing. There are five sections broken down into:

* Basic Blues riffs

* R&B influenced Blues riffs

* Boogie Woogie

* Rock influenced Blues riffs

* Gospel influenced Blues riffs The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale are explained. There are two completed songs at the back of the book that shows how to combine many of the riffs to form a song. Many people have commented that this is the best Blues keyboard product that they have ever used. A must for all levels of keyboardists that want to study the blues. All 100 "riffs" are recorded with the piano right hand on the right channel and the piano left hand on the left channel along with a drum track. Learn how your favorite Blues keyboardists play including Dr. John, Leon Russell, Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Otis Spann, Nicky Hopkins and many more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155675 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 69 pages

Customer Reviews

Very Useful!!!
Had I noticed that this was by Andrew D. Gordon, I probably would not have bought it, based on his rhythm piano book, which I have reviewed and which was mediocre.

This book is far better. There are good licks in here that give insight into many techniques of blues piano from several different genres. They are not for beginners, but are not insanely difficult, either. Still, getting the tougher ones up to speed will take time for pianists who are not already technically accomplished.

Now that I've seen that this author can write a good piano book, I'm tempted to dock his other book one star.

This book would make a good companion to "Improvising Blues Piano" by Tim Richards, and everyone will find at least half of the 100 riffs to be very useful.

I recommend it!

Very Good Resource For Blues Licks
This book is a very good book on showing you bits and pieces of riffs/licks from blues, rock, gospel, R & B, and boogie woogie that will help enhance your playing. You can incorporate these licks in a variety of music. For example, I am incorporating these licks into my jazz and blues piano playing.

Some of the licks however, are not that good but for the most part they are very good. This is not a book that teaches you how to play the blues but gives you bass lines, 12 bar blues form and 2 pieces at the end of the book that show you how to combine the riffs to make your own songs.

A very good resource ranging from the intermediate to the advanced and it will help your playing sound better.

Blues by Gordon
I have not had enough time to thorougly play the entire book, but what I have reviewed is exactly what I was looking for. Might yet be a 5 star .