1 1 00:00:00,025 --> 00:00:04,740 Blues rhythm number two, Straight Eight Boogie Rhythm. 2 2 00:00:05,990 --> 00:00:07,740 This is a Jerry Lee Lewis style rhythm, and 3 3 00:00:07,740 --> 00:00:10,100 it'll be a lot more fun than rhythm one. 4 4 00:00:11,150 --> 00:00:15,294 But you'll still see that it's just an extension of that first basic rhythm. 5 5 00:00:15,294 --> 00:00:17,117 You'll still use the same three chords. 6 6 00:00:17,117 --> 00:00:20,781 C, [SOUND] F, [SOUND] G [SOUND]. 7 7 00:00:20,781 --> 00:00:23,346 The right hand will just play the basic chord. 8 8 00:00:23,346 --> 00:00:26,406 [SOUND] Left hand's going to play a pattern again, but 9 9 00:00:26,406 --> 00:00:29,058 just more elaborate than your first pattern. 10 10 00:00:29,058 --> 00:00:32,726 In the first pattern, you played just the notes of the basic C chord. 11 11 00:00:32,726 --> 00:00:35,965 [MUSIC] 12 12 00:00:35,965 --> 00:00:38,106 You're going to play those notes again, but 13 13 00:00:38,106 --> 00:00:40,145 you're going to add two more notes on top. 14 14 00:00:40,145 --> 00:00:45,300 [MUSIC] 15 15 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:47,313 You can see that in order to do that, 16 16 00:00:47,313 --> 00:00:51,824 you have to change playing with your thumb to move your second finger onto the G. 17 17 00:00:51,824 --> 00:00:54,552 [SOUND] Then your thumb on to the A, 18 18 00:00:54,552 --> 00:00:59,625 then swivel up onto the B-flat, [SOUND] and back down to the A. 19 19 00:00:59,625 --> 00:01:01,340 [SOUND] Down to the G, and through the chord again. 20 20 00:01:01,340 --> 00:01:05,763 [MUSIC] 21 21 00:01:05,763 --> 00:01:08,886 So see it as a C chord with two notes added. 22 22 00:01:08,886 --> 00:01:12,179 [SOUND] And if you just look at the pattern and the shift, 23 23 00:01:12,179 --> 00:01:17,059 you'll see that the two notes added are very, very close to the end of the chord. 24 24 00:01:17,059 --> 00:01:20,983 So you've got a gap, [SOUND] and a gap, and two notes very close. 25 25 00:01:20,983 --> 00:01:22,445 And the last one's black. 26 26 00:01:22,445 --> 00:01:26,787 [MUSIC] 27 27 00:01:26,787 --> 00:01:30,966 Now, let's add in the right hand. 28 28 00:01:30,966 --> 00:01:32,388 And to make it easy, 29 29 00:01:32,388 --> 00:01:37,085 you're just going to play a C note in between every left hand note. 30 30 00:01:37,085 --> 00:01:47,085 [MUSIC] 31 31 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,885 And if you can get that faster, you'll sound quite good. 32 32 00:01:52,885 --> 00:02:01,117 [MUSIC] 33 33 00:02:01,117 --> 00:02:03,137 That's the easiest way to play the rhythm. 34 34 00:02:03,137 --> 00:02:07,589 But the Jerry Lee Lewis style is to play two right hand chords for 35 35 00:02:07,589 --> 00:02:09,103 each left hand note. 36 36 00:02:09,103 --> 00:02:12,761 So it's eight half beats per bar in the right hand. 37 37 00:02:12,761 --> 00:02:22,761 [MUSIC] 38 38 00:02:31,103 --> 00:02:34,180 Now, you can play the sequence using the chord of C. 39 39 00:02:34,180 --> 00:02:38,881 Try transposing it to the chords of F and G. 40 40 00:02:38,881 --> 00:02:41,796 So find the F chord in the right hand. 41 41 00:02:41,796 --> 00:02:45,198 [SOUND] Two octave left again. 42 42 00:02:45,198 --> 00:02:46,417 Start the pattern again. 43 43 00:02:46,417 --> 00:02:49,040 It's going to look exactly the same as the C pattern. 44 44 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,215 So you're gonna play an F chord, 45 45 00:02:51,215 --> 00:02:54,879 [SOUND] followed by the two notes closely tied together. 46 46 00:02:54,879 --> 00:02:56,561 It's the sixth and the seventh of the scale. 47 47 00:02:56,561 --> 00:03:05,686 [MUSIC] 48 48 00:03:05,686 --> 00:03:08,623 Then move everything up one note to G. 49 49 00:03:08,623 --> 00:03:11,250 And the difference with the G chord, the G pattern, 50 50 00:03:11,250 --> 00:03:14,252 is that the last note's going to be white instead of black. 51 51 00:03:14,252 --> 00:03:15,575 So just keep that in mind. 52 52 00:03:15,575 --> 00:03:18,908 [SOUND] So white instead of black. 53 53 00:03:18,908 --> 00:03:28,908 [MUSIC] 54 54 00:03:30,169 --> 00:03:36,252 Let's try the full progression on the next page, 12 bar Jerry Lee style boogie. 55 55 00:03:36,252 --> 00:03:38,005 Play it very slowly. 56 56 00:03:38,005 --> 00:03:48,005 [MUSIC]