The Musicarta Twelve-bar Piano Styles Workbook

Blues, boogie-woogie, rock’n’roll – twelve-bar music comes in many forms, and a working knowledge of the basics is essential for the modern keyboard player.

The Musicarta Twelve-bar Piano Styles workbook puts dozens of real 12-bar riffs and grooves into your repertoire and walks you through the rhythmic, harmonic and melodic building blocks of the 12-bar style.

Musicarta’s parallel workbook web pages present audio of all the musical examples, and you also get MIDI files of all the musical examples, plus the MidiPiano virtual keyboard (Windows OS) to turn every one of them into a training video.

Performance videos of module solos and riffs with simultaneous virtual keyboard playback show exactly which keys to play and how to get your hands there – just like a personal one-on-one lesson! You can see some examples on the MisterMusicarta YouTube Twelve-bar Styles playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5JLvea_G1xdGdZ5wucKAR8sL8Dq3gfqL
 - but note that these videos do not have the show-and-tell virtual piano performance.

You can also browse sample content pages starting on http://www.musicarta.com/blues_piano_lessons.html .

Straight blues and boogie aside, twelve-bar form and styles are pervasive in popular music and an essential component of any keyboard player’s bag of tricks. With the Musicarta Twelve-bar Piano Styles workbook, you'll never be short of an idea or two of your own!