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10 Cool Piano and Keyboard Blues Licks
In last month’s Well-Rounded Keyboardist posting, we talked about various forms of the blues chord progression. Now let’s learn some great phrases to use in your soloing.
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The most common note choices for playing blues licks come from what is called a blues scale. In the key of C, these notes are:
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