Hi Arthur! I'm watching your lick videos from YouTube since 2-3 months ago and I can say that I have learnt from them a lot, at least the things you teach. I am practising now the lick 7 but it seems more difficult of the previous ones. I don't know how to practice with this new lick and move my hand over the keyboard to start creating a "solo" with my right hand... Some recommendations? I would like to continue with the next step because those videos are great!!

Really enjoying the book, giving me a real impetus to practice. I was a bit unsure what i was doing transposing lick 1 but it might apply to other licks. In the example which starts on C theres a grace note on Eb going to the E which is track 23 in the audio recordings. If i transpose this to F it works the same. But if i transpose so it starts on D then to add the grace note i would need to brush off F and then onto F# which doesn't feel natural or else messes with the fingering if i use two fingers to do it. In all the videos ive watched i haven't seen anyone brushing up from a white note to a black note, so Im guessing that this isn't really done in the tradition but I don't know for sure. Without the brushed note it sounds a bit too clean. In D for lick 1 i tried brushing off the G# and onto the A which sort of works but then i wondered is that losing the sense of the lick a bit. and its a bit tricky. It takes a bit of practice so i don't want to go down this road if its frowned on or something or not the way the afficianados do it. So thats it basically. Question is if transposing the grace note means you would be brushing from a white note to a black note do people forget about it, try to use some odd fingering to get a similar affect or brush a different note if theres a better candidate. I thought maybe as well there were go to keys with the boogie woogie and i wondered was that related to the availablity of the grace notes. id like to learn to transpose the licks anyway as its a good exercise i think. Gets the different keys lodged in my head somewhere.

Hi... I'm learning "The Lick" - I cannot find anything about it in The Book... Is there a bit of "sheet music" around to go with the video Arthur made on it? I've got "The Lick" but what I'd also like is that bit that comes after after you do the G Octaves about 7 times Next I have like CC C7(Chord) C(Chord) then GG A F(Chord) Eb(slide)E C(chord) ... but I'm not sure it's quite right 😁 I looked on YouTube but everyone plays it different! Thanks