some times it easyer to drop notes than too add, it gives you a space and timming senses.

I find/found on change overs or chord changes just to hit the 4 down beat on the left, but if you experiment you can even drop or strike on the 3 rd or experiment and change the structure and infill with notes that help you. I am with you I am not a pianoist or keyboardist but have come back to music from school. I am know 61 years old. I have tried learning a few set pieces.

let it be original bass pattern took me for ever. gave up started again.

feel robbie williams. and Fur Elise the easy bit he he.

now a bit of boogie but I am very inconsistant.

I going to be laid up for three months as having Mitral valve surgery, but I will be able to twinkle my Kawai ES100 88keys.

I am on first lick stuff but have had a go at bass patterns before was trying to follow Brendan Kavanagh, Dr K but finding his stuff too irractic and not structure enough.

anyway just adding my two pence worth. If it tripping you up just miss it out and when practicing set hicks or trips just focus on that bit, till it gells. Patient is a vurtue I have never cultivated but seem it is essential to master anything. pratice, pratice oh and practice.

till I get board then it back to amazon prime video...life saver

Hi Dave, Sorry for gate crashing your thread but I can't see an option to create a new thread in this forum.

Hi Arthur. I stumbled on your YouTube video "How to Play Boogie Woogie Piano" and was inspired to buy a second hand keyboard to have a go. I should say I turn 72 on Wednesday.

As a child a learned to play a little bit of right hand piano from my uncle but never could grasp the left hand and eventually went on and took up piano accordion lessons but didn't stick with it for very long. I struggled to read music, and would play many of the tunes by ear, much to the annoyance of my music teacher.

I joined the army in 1968 and was posted overseas so I sold my accordion for a case of beer, not touched a keyboard since.

So I have only been playing that left hand riff for two days and already I am beginning to see some measure of progress. I followed the links and purchased your book from Amazon. And was also delighted to find you had this Free Website. I look forward to working my way through the basics and on through the boot camp.

Thank you Sir for creating this wonderful website. What a great way for this old dog to see out my senior years, re-living my childhood passion.

Regards Archie

Located just outside Edinburgh, Scotland

Dave, I understand your confusion. What I am suggesting as one possible way to use the 4 bar phrase in 35 is to play the right hand 4 bar phrase 3 times, exactly as written (in G). Only the left hand will make the chord changes. The right hand stays in G position, even as the left hand plays over C and D. (don't play a turnaround) Or... if you do play a turnaround, play the turnaround with the right hand too. Hope this helps!

Hi Dave! Welcome to the site.

Keep in mind there is no "right way" to do the answers to your questions. If you experiment with some different ways you will find the one that sounds right to you. Here are my suggestions though...

1) if the walking bass pattern is still challenging, substitute the basic shuffle pattern (as in track 27) for the left hand in track 35 for now. What you don't want to get in the habit of doing is to learn RH and LH together note-for-note. You want to approach this from a hand-independence standpoint. If you have to think about piecing together notes in RH then that means your LH doesn't quite have the muscle memory for its bass pattern yet.

2) Track 34, replace the last D# and G with the pickup note leading to the new key you want to go to.

3) Track 35, the exact same right hand can be used over all the changes. If you want to keep the same 4 bar phrase throughout all 12 bars, you can just leave it where it is and change the left hand through the changes. Hope this helps! If not let me know.