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If you really want to play buttery, blues piano, I don’t recommend playing a standard blues shuffle.

The blues shuffle is great, but it locks you into the more “traditional blues” sound.

But what if you want that very open, free sound in your blues?

You know, that type of blues Oscar Peterson might play at the end of his set at 1a.m.

The kind where you just close your eyes, put your head back, and feel it.

There’s only one way, in my opinion, to get that sound.

And I call it… Free Blues.

Most teachers don’t teach you blues like this because it’s hard to teach.

But as I started playing this style more and more, I realized that it actually can be taught.

Free Blues boils down to 3 key techniques.

In this lesson, you’ll learn these techniques, and by the end, you’ll be playing blues more freely than you ever thought possible.

What you’ll discover in this lesson is that free blues is about juxtaposing two musical opposites:

1. Pulse
2. Fluidity

Pulse is grounding. It’s stable. It’s the thing that holds everything together.

Fluidity is in the air. It’s unstable. It can do anything it wants.

You need both to play Free Blues.

This gets into my deeper philosophy of music:

Musical magic happens with constrained freedom.

If you strike this balance, your playing will really come alive.

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