School of Boogie

Hey Dave , great job 😁😁😁 well done , you make this look so easy 👏👏 i feel inspired to revisit this great song 🎹❤️🎹

Seems to be working now Arthur 😀

Testing …….

@Dean Watkins I hadn’t heard Got My Mojo until Arthurs live stream a few weeks ago . It’s very cool isn’t it 😎🎹 im trying to improve my playing by ear , it’s difficult isn’t it 😣 I’m sloooowly getting better at it 😅 I find copying what I see easiest. I’m currenfly working on a song Arthur played at the beginning of his first live stream , I absolutely love it ❤️ I hope to be able to record it in a few weeks 🤞🏿 Good luck with the Shredder 😀

Hi Dean 😁👋🏿 Thanks for the lovely feedback, that’s good to read 😅😁 I know what you mean , you should see my “to do“ playlist in Spotify 😁😁 I need LOTS more hours in a day 🤣 The shredder is very satisfying to play 😎 you should definitely give that a go too 👍🏿 Do you learn your songs by ear?

Hi Dean 👋🏿 I love this , well done 👏👏👏😁😁 it’s such a fun song to play isn’t it 😊😊🎹❤️🎹 it’s on my “try to maintain” list 😊

@jessekeller yep , I was in exactly the same situation 🙈 it’s so embarrassing isn’t it because people expect that if you can play , you can just play anything, on the spot with no music 😬😬 my mum would often have guests too when I was called upon to “play us something “ 🙈 Now , instead of going red and making excuses , I can go to the piano and just play something 😀 From memory ( pun intended 🤣) , Tipitina possibly isn’t the best place to start with this method . Maybe try Arthurs “Let’s Boogie” ( sheet music is available on here or you could use his tutorial on YouTube ) Its perfect for beginning to use this method as it’s short and the 2nd chorus stays in one position throughout 😊 once youve memorised one song , it gets easier and easier 🎹❤️🎹

Hi Jesse 😊 This is such an interesting question and one that I could’ve asked myself a few years ago ….. I’ve been playing classical piano for years and can read music well but couldn’t play anything at all without sheet music . My mum has a piano at her house and I am always asked to play something whenever I visit …. It was so embarrassing having to say “I can’t , I haven’t got my sheet music ” 🙈 in the end I took some music round and left it there for such occasions 😆 Anyway , when I started having lessons with Arthur I was very attracted to his method of teaching without music but I really didn’t think I would be able to do it . I even told him as much at my first lesson 🙈🤣 However , it turns out that I can memorize boogie and blues just fine and I think there are two reasons for this … I’m not sure if you’ve learnt all of Arthur’s 8 licks on his YouTube ? For me that is key . Every song I learn , I no longer think of individual notes , but in terms of licks and big sections of music . Using Chorus 3 of Pinetops Boogie as an example For me this is …. Lick 2 for 8 bars Then a G7 chord Then lick 5 going up and down but using G instead of A Then lick 1 into 5 into lick 3 I don’t think “Eb - E - C&E “ etc etc 😊 Last year I learnt Arthurs Lick etude with boogie bass , I decided to learn it using the sheet music 🤔 because it’s short and I thought it would be quicker than trying to copy his video. After spending a fair amount of time working on it I noticed that it just wasn’t sinking into my memory and I had literally zero idea of what came next if I wasn’t looking at the music ☹️ It then dawned on me that it was precisely because I was using the sheet music that I couldn’t remember it 😮 I had gone back to looking at each individual note on the page and not making the connection regarding which licks were in use at any given time . So I looked at the music and analysed what I could see . Once I spotted the licks and their variations I put the sheets away and forced myself to remember it by thinking, for example…. Intro . Lick 1 , lick 5 , the lick etc etc , and I had it memorised in about an hour 😅 So my very long winded advice to you is to learn all the licks first ( if you haven’t already ) and then if you like to initially learn songs from sheet music (which is absolutely fine 😊) , analyse the music to find out which licks are in use at each point 😊 then turn the sheets over and try to play it thinking of those licks instead of individual notes 😊 Finally , also very important, lots and lots of listening to the song you’re trying to learn 😊 I hope this is useful 😊 good luck 🎹❤️🎹

Thanks Arthur ☺️ That means a lot coming from you ❤️🎹

@arthurmigliazza thanks for the very helpful reply Arthur 😊❤️🎹 I did think that something “wasn’t quite right” as I played it and I seem to remember you mentioning this back when I originally learnt it too 🙈 I’ll go back to the original recording and listen carefully for the syncopations you describe 😊 thanks Arthur 😀

Ahhhhh I wondered why it hadn’t appeared again 😐😐 thanks Arthur 😊

@theadamzki thank you😀❤️🎹

Thanks Arthur 😀 thats much better with the video showing 😀🎹

This is very cool 😎 indeed 😀 well done , that’s some progress in just one year 👏