Level-up tuneFree
Night Train Blues
Piano lume original
Simplified arrangement
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Length
- 0:51
- Key
- C major (blues)
Ready to play?
Watch it once, then it’s your turn. Notes fall toward the keys, and the song waits for you until you’re ready to keep time.
- Speed 1 to 10
- Loop any part
- Right, left or both hands
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How to learn this song
What you’ll learn
- A 12-bar blues on C7, F7 and G7
- A boogie bass that walks up to the seventh
- Sixteenth-note fills and triplets
Where to put your hands
Left hand: little finger on the low root, reaching up an octave. Right hand around middle C, using the blues notes E♭ and B♭.
Tips
- 1Learn the left-hand boogie first. It's the same shape on C, F and G: root, 3rd, 5th, 6th, flat 7th and back.
- 2Bars 9 and 10 start with four quick sixteenths. Let them tumble down into beat 2.
- 3Bar 11 opens with a triplet: three notes in one beat, “trip-o-let”.
Parts of the song
Chorus 1Chorus 2