The exciting sound of the blues, born in America, finds its way into all styles of music heard around the world. These days everyone hears that familiar "color" in rock, pop, folk, classical, and other jazz styles. This easy-to-follow and complete programmed course teaches you to create your own blue music at the piano. Explanations and examples are given and become even more advanced. This book works more easily for you when you already know a little about reading piano music. Playing the blues teaches you essential music theory in a fun hands-on way, so a piano teacher can include this as a part of regular lessons. All the elements of basic blues are here. This is a guide, a textbook, and a teacher. If you study music and want to know how to play the blues style, this is the book for you! The accompanying online audio contains 26 of the exercises and examples from the book. Contents Are: A Dozen To Go A Poor Man Like Me All's Well That Ends Well Back In The Cabbie Blues Montgomery Borneo Bay C-Saw Create A Song With 9th Accompaniments Create Your Own 12 Bar Dallas Blues Frankie And Johnny Hesitating Blues I'm Thinking Of Inspector Blue Joe Turner Put That Number On The Wall Salutations Ship Shape Tap,Tap,Tap Tishomingo Blues Twelve Bar Bop Use Your Riff Waltz Of "D-Light" You Got The Color Of Blue You're The One