How to Play Boogie Woogie Piano - WikiHow

More lessons at www.SchoolOfBoogie.com - all FREE This video was created to accompany the WikiHow article on how to play boogie woogie piano. For SHEET MUSIC please see the article: https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Boogie-Woogie-Piano Private lessons at www.arthurmigliazza.com/lessons Instructional book at http://amzn.to/1Ri43TT FOR PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH HAND INDEPENDENCE: Hand independence relies on muscle memory. The length of time it takes a person to get something "automatic" can vary from 1 day to 6 months. It depends on how much time you spend repeating the motion. No different than learning how to drive a stick shift or tie your shoes or chew food or type on a computer keyboard. The more frequently you can repeat a motion, the sooner it will become automatic. In this case you are trying to get your left hand/wrist/arm to remember to move up and down in a specific rhythm while alternating your top note. If you put in a collective 20 min a day on just your left hand (meaning 5 min here 10 min there, etc... or 20 min all at once) for 2 weeks and you still don't see any improvement I will be surprised. You don't even need to be at a piano to practice the repetitions of your left hand. Tap out the rhythms on your desk, alternating your top finger as you do so (i.e. index to thumb as I show in the video). Imagine yourself playing the piano as you do this. You can even do it on your lap as you're sitting or stuck in traffic. Get creative. Teach your left hand the motion. You can do it. You learned how to walk. You can learn how to do this on piano.