can anyone help me. i want to learn how to play boogie woogie, honky tonk but i cant read music i am self taught and i love this music but i find hard to improvise.

is there any dvds or books or anything out there for poeple like myself

Your best bet is to actually get a teacher, but there are books. I can't remember the name exactly but it's a very popular book called The Complete Piano or something like that. Once you can read notes then you can get a book called It's Easy To Play: Boogie Woogie, there you will find lots of peices. Fianlly you will have a little experience on the styles so you can try improvising.

Good luck and have fun!

A good starting point would probably be to listen to a lot of examples of the style you want to play.

I think you'll find that, despite the title of the book, it's most defiately *not* easy to play boogie woogie!

A lot of pieces seem to involve having your hands doing totally different things at opposite ends of the keyboard!

I don't know much about boogie woogie. Sounds fun to play though, I'll try it out sometime.

There are quite a few books on learning boogie woogie, but the best bar far, in my opinion is "Improvising Blues Piano" by Tim Richards. You can get this book from Amazon, Jazzwise and a number of other websites.

jimpianored

www.hardbop-boogie.com

Even though they're more expensive, I think it's better to get a book with a CD attached so you can hear the examples.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.



Amber
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