Cool Jazz Tricks #2
Learn Gospel Blues Piano Style of Ray Charles, with Video.
Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston, together with guest pianist Milton Ruffin, did a nice analysis on the gospel piano style of Ray Charles.
Milton explained how Ray Charles applied the 1 and 2 technique in his playing, a way of switching between the inversion of two chords.
Here's the video
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQWy0txK2ME]
Milton demonstrated a few nice licks which he didn't really elaborate on.
The first lick is at 01m48s of the clip, this was what he played.
The main chord was Ab7
The lick is basically a switching between ...