Three-note blues
Note after Note · Level 1 (Novice) · jazz and blues · Piano
A real twelve-bar blues with only three notes in the right hand (G, B♭, C) and one held note in the left hand.
▶ Play this piece with the interactive score
How to practise it
- Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
- Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
- Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
- Right hand: thumb on G, 3 on B♭ (black key), 4 on C. The hand never moves. Left hand: 5 on C, 2 on F, 1 on G — listen to how the chords change colour in bars 5 and 9. Once it feels easy, play the quarter notes a little “lazily”, like a blues singer.