What Are Blues Licks? Let’s first talk about what musicians mean with the term “lick”. A lick is a short musical phrase used in blues and jazz music that can be repeated and applied to specific chords and genres. Every andvanced blues and jazz musician has its favorite set of “licks”. Those sets of licks…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2B-tjjddOM What you will learn In this article I show you my analysis of my solo piano arrangement of Imagine by John Lennon, one of my favorite pop songs! How I arranged the song Imagine for Solo Piano I thought it might interest you how this arrangement came about. I actually performed the piece by memory (having played…

What You Will Learn How to create/play a piano accompaniment behind a singer or instrumentalist of Just The Way You Are by Billy JoelAbout the chord symbols and their function (music theory) used in the songPiano technique related tipsHow to apply techniques discussed here to other songs Why this song? Just The Way You Are…

What you can learn from this postHow to use sus4 chords in pop and jazz Improvising using sus4 chordsHow to build interesting harmony using sus4 chords as the upper structure over different bass noteHow to create rhythmic pattern thinking like a drummer (works with any chord) To get you turned on to sus4 chords watch…