I'm looking for Ray solo: vocals and piano or piano only (no drums, bass, etc).

With his vast catalog, there must be more than "The Genius After Hours" and "Sweet Sixteen Bars" but those are the only recordings I'm aware of.

I'm also posting this in the JazzPiano sub

If you listen to Cleary play from 4:00-4:30, he's playing new orleans funk piano. This is the sound I'm after. Anybody got any recs; any artists that fit the mold? thanks.

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Hello. I'll paste a link to one of my favorite Ray Charles's song below. Yesterday I put the recording on and I tried to play along with an electric piano (regular piano sound). Just listen to the intro: it starts with a triplet of very low bass notes (Db-D-Eb) and then the first fragment of the chord progression SHOULD be Ab/Eb, Fm and then back to Ab/Eb. The melody note is Eb, then F, then back to Eb and the chords I wrote down before are built filling the octave of the melody note with the proper harmony notes.

While playing along, those Eb and F notes in the first chords sound a little bit out of tune to me, because I heard some clashing sound. Now, I would like to know whether the piano that the Genius recorded this pasterpiece on is a little bit funky or my own piano is having some weird issues. Could someone please help me? https://youtu.be/xhxAML_k-WQ?si=57xOebKHkocAxS8A

I have been playing piano for a long time but due to poor teachers I feel like I never really learned anything. I would learn to play a song out of a book then once that was good enough I’d move on to the next song. Therefore I only recently learned about key signature, scales, and am learning about chords (diminished, augmented etc.) My question is how do I practice blues and boogie? I don’t want to read sheet music but I don’t know how to get better. I feel like I’m just messing around when I practice and not retaining anything. It would be nice to be able to hear a song and transpose it myself but that seems unbelievably unrealistically difficult. Any advice?

Hi All I love playing blues piano. I like writing up different patterns too. Can I share some of my YT videos here too?
https://youtu.be/uPnzUoaFVjY

who are you listening to for hot blues licks? who are you transcribing?

I've been obsessed with the sound of 10ths in the left hand and the passing chords you hear in Dr. John, James Booker, and Jon Cleary's playing. However, there's no definitive resource of specific term or definition for this is there? I've gotten pretty good at playing this style but it's all been very organic, kind of learning it by ear, watching people's hands while playing, and through trial and error. I wish there was more specific resources out there.

Is there?

hey gang, really trying to work on my blues solos. any good places you can recommend to get hot licks and work on and develop my blues solos? i really need your help. thank you!

I have learned the major C blues scale and some left hand stuff like C dominate.

However every time i improvise with the scale, it sounds robotic and weird and when i see the guy who played the tutorial use the same notes more elegantly and rhythmic makes me wonder is there a tutorial on how to play like the actual blues and not just name the scale.

Many piano methods teach you how to play very old traditional tunes because they are free from copyright. I HATE that! Who wants to play (or listen to) a plonk plonk version of ‘Oh Suzanna’?

Other methods focus on just one style of playing – and you basically learn how to play a dozen or so tunes and that’s it – end of story – and you have to pay for another method to learn more.

Pianoforall lays a FOUNDATION that can be applied in ANY direction and any musical style. When you learned how to read and write you didn’t just learn other people’s sentences – you learned the alphabet so that you could construct your OWN sentences. Pianoforall gives you the tools to play whatever style you want.

Please give me some good chord progressions for any key that would be good for improvising on? I plan on making more songs with them too!