Monday boogie
Note after Note · Level 4 (Intermediate) · jazz and blues · Piano
A boogie-woogie study: the left hand walks without stopping (sixth then minor seventh) while the right hand throws in blues riffs.
▶ 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.
- First practise the left hand alone until it runs on autopilot: 5-4-3-2-1 going up, 2-3-4 coming down. The left hand opens up to a seventh (C–B♭): keep the wrist loose, never tense. Swing the eighths (long-short). Light right hand, rock-steady left hand.