Buddy Bolden’s Blues - piano tutorial

More on blues piano in my book: This is an overview piano tutorial for Buddy Bolden’s Blues - a really good New Orleans-style blues by Jelly Roll Morton. It’s a useful blues to look at for a number of reasons. First, it has an interesting chord progression which differs from the standard 12-bar pattern, in that it uses a series of diminished passing chords to move from one principle chord to the next. The way these are used - and especially the way you can exploit different bass vo