Hello Marcin. I’m a beginner with only a few months of practicing with the help of this website so I’m not an expert but I think I could at least share how I move forward with my practice routine. When I was able to do the beginner test with the swing rhythm shuffle left hand pattern I immediately started the Part 1 licks with that left hand pattern because by that time I also had the backbeat accents without having to think about it. I focused more on getting my two hands in rhythm with each other at first even if it meant that my left hand accents were becoming unsteady. I knew that once I got both hands working together (beyond the test and with the licks) I could then focus on correcting the motion of my left hand so that the accents (on beats 2 and 4 for example) would come back in without having to worry about the right hand. In other words, once I play that 12 bar blues with a particular left hand pattern and a lick with a steady timing and dynamic I then move on to the next Part 1 lick with the same left hand pattern.

When I first started utilizing this website it did not take long to notice that the swing shuffle left hand pattern (the one that Arthur uses in all the Part 1 example videos) is far easier to achieve a steady timing and dynamic than the first Albert Ammons left hand pattern in the “Monster Left Hand“ section. So I practiced this difficult left hand pattern by itself for 2 weeks before I even attempted to spend an inordinate amount of time to test it with the C6 in the right hand. When I did attempt to test the Ammons left hand I went super slow.

When I began attempting Lick #6 with the Ammons left hand I learned something. With the swing shuffle pattern you could very easily match note for note between the left a