Rocking the Blues at Age 68

 

I am making great strides in re-learning how to play the Piano. In fact, I am playing better than I ever had.

Recently I cruised through Blues Standards and am working through 100 Greatest Hits and then Duke Ellington Standards before moving back to Bach and then trying Mozart and Beethoven Sonatas later in the year.  When I am in the States, I am going to buy some more Blues and Jazz standards.

I am finally rocking the blues!  Not bad for a 68 old. Besides daily playing, I am going to take some music theory classes online and learn how to really play jazz and blues piano.

Blues Standards

1. All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
2. Baby Please Don’t Go
3. Baby, What You Want Me To Do
4. Back Door Man
5. Bluebird
6. Blues Before Sunrise
7. Blues With A Feeling
8. Boogie Chillen No. 2
9. Caldonia
10. Checkin’ Up On My Baby
11. Confessin’ The Blues
12. Crossroads
13. Everyday (I Have The Blues)
14. Evil (Is Going On)
15. Five Long Years
16. Going Down Slow
17. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
18. Help Me
19. Honest I Do
20. How Long, How Long Blues
21. I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
22. I Can’t Quit You Baby
23. I’m A Man
24. I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man
25. I’m Gonna Move On The Outskirts Of Town
26. I’m Ready
27. I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man
28. It Hurts Me Too
29. Key To The Highway
30. Killing Floor
31. Little Red Rooster
32. Mean Old Frisco
33. Mean Old World
34. Mellow Down Easy
35. Merry Christmas, Baby
36. Milk Cow Blues
37. My Babe
38. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
39. On The Road Again
40. Please Send Me Someone To Love
41. Ramblin’ On My Mind
42. Reconsider Baby
43. Rollin’ And Tumblin’
44. Saint James Infirmary
45. St. Louis Blues
46. See See Rider
47. Sitting On Top Of The World
48. The Sky Is Crying
49. Smokestack Lightning
50. Spoonful
51. Sweet Home Chicago
52. Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-Ness If I Do
53. The Thrill Is Gone
54. Trouble In Mind
55. Walkin’ Blues
56. Wang Dang Doodle
57. You Don’t Have To Go

and really rocked out on these too.

100 Greatest Hits

Finished

Duke Ellington Song Book

finished

1. Alabama Home
2. Azure
3. Birmingham Breakdown
4. Black Butterfly
5. Blip Blip
6. Boy Meets Horn
7. Brown Skin Gal In The Colico Gown
8. Caravan
9. Creole Love Call
10. Come Sunday
11. Day Dream
12. Do Nothing Unitl You Hear From Me
13. Doing The Crazy Walk
14. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
15. Echoes Of Harlem
16. Everything But You
17. Five O Clock Drag
18. Gal From Joes
19. Gypsy With Out A Song
20. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
21. Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
22. I Never Felt This Way Before
23. I’m Just A Lucky So And So
24. Riding On The Moon And Dancing On The Stars
25. So In Love With You
26. In A Sentimental Mood
27. It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
28. Jeep In Jumping
29. Lady In Blue
30. Lost In Meditation
31. Mood Indigo
32. Paris Burning
33. Please Forgive Me
34. Pre;Ude To A Kiss
35. Ring Dem
36. Rocking My Rhtyim
37. Satin Doll
38. Solitude
39. Something To Live For
40. Sosphicated Lady
41. Take The A Train

While there in Medford, Oregon I will rent a piano. Found a place that rents pianos for 25 dollars a month, what a deal. And will stock up on some more blues, jazz and rock standard sheet music books at Barnes and Nobel.