Blues Piano & Improvisation in the Slow Blues Style (Udemy.com)
Improvise Blues Piano in the "Slow Blues" Style | An Intermediate to Advanced Blues Piano Course
Created by: Arthur Bird
Last updated November 2025
What you will learn
- How to play "Slow Blues" style piano
- How to improvise Blues piano fluently
- Learn a wealth of blues licks, riffs, scales and techniques
- Upon completing the course you will be also be able to play five Blues piano pieces
- Improve your hand and finger coordination with the vast amount of exercises
- Improve your timing/ability to play with an even tempo with the use of the blues backing tracks
Course Description
Take your blues piano playing to the next level with this course on blues piano and improvisation in the slow blues style! Beginning with a basic slow blues progression, it methodically builds your skills all the way to being able to freely improvise impressive blues piano. Throughout you’ll accumulate a wealth of licks, riffs and techniques that will have you creating blues sounds in a way that you’ve always wanted to!
Systematic Approach - The strength of the course comes from the systematic approach to implementing of every aspect or skill, with exercises that enable you to easily integrate your new abilities fluently into your improvisations.
Practice Pieces - It’s important to have the opportunity to put your new skills into practice. Which is why there are also specially designed blues pieces that incorporate every you’re learning as you progress, culminating in a final blues tune that shows off everything you’ve learnt in the course.
50+ Sheet Music Downloads – Everything in the course has been notated for those that can read music, with over 50 PDF downloads available!
Music Reading Ability Not Essential – You don’t need to be able to read music notation to take this course. Every scale, lick, riff, technique, exercise and practice piece is broken down and talked through during the video lessons by the instructor, for students that prefer to copy and play by ear. The tutorials include highlighted keyboard graphics, and the notation within the videos also include the note names (inside the note heads) for anyone that may find it useful.
Improvisation – Improvising is at the heart of Blues piano, which is why the course has a core focus on giving you the skills to be able to fluently improvise using a step-by-step approach.
Backing Track Downloads – So you can have even more fun whilst learning and playing the blues, the course also has backing tracks so you can play along to a blues band sound in the comfort of your own home.
Bonus eBook – Everyone learns differently, which is why as an added bonus the course includes a 60+ page eBook that you can download and print off, to further enhance the learning process.
Not For Complete Beginners - This course is not for beginners and assumes some previous knowledge on the piano, although it is still suitable for pianists that may be early on in their piano learning journey, because it starts with a gentle approach, and methodically builds to advanced levels as you move through.
START TODAY - So if you want to have fun improvising smooth blues piano right off the top of your head, then sign up, and start playing today!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
194 Reviews
Arthur Bird
Hi, I'm Arthur and I've been playing the piano for over 25 years. After achieving Grade 8 with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, I started touring as a session player in theatre shows all over the United Kingdom. As well as this I have lots of experience in recording studios, and with bands have played music all over the world, from the USA, Scandinavia to Australia. I've been teaching piano for over 15 years now, and I'm also an approved tutor with the City of York Arts Council.
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Reviews
By Michael Edwards on 7/20/2026
Great teacher. Very good explanations with examples of how to do the lessons. He is really one of my favorite instructors on Udemy.
By Chun-Li Lo on 6/27/2026
I took Arthur’s Jazz beginner course before this one, and these two courses work so well hand-in-hand. 3 months in from a beginner, I was already able to play super cool slow Blues that there was no way I would believe that I would be able to at the beginning of this course.
By Tessa Cox on 1/28/2025
Great pace and easy to follow. Thank you so much . Brilliant course. Have booked another . Do you think it is wise to practise all the elements of the slow blues course first before staring the next one? I feel that I may have gone through without pracising enough
By André Tiisel on 9/1/2024
Ótimo curso. Mesmo tendo apenas comecado eu consigo sentir a progressão a cada aula. Valeu muito a pena, obrigado. Great class. I barely started and I can already feel the progression by class. Really worth it, thanks a lot.
By Ruth Etheridge on 3/4/2024
I'm enjoying the opportunity to learn .. and I know that I've got these lessons for life and I can go back over any of the lessons whenever I need to. I like the structure of the lessons and it's an ordered process which I need. I can see where I have to practise more and I can do.it in my own time. Thank you
By Eddi Miglavs on 4/4/2023
Arthur has done a fantastic job of breaking down the steps into easy chunks that then build on each other. His ebook practice pages are outstanding. I plan to take every course Arthur offers!
By Justin Biddle on 3/15/2023
A great course - really well explained. The structure was excellent - there are some challenging progressions - but the tutor gave lots of exercises to help move forwards. All in all this is a great course for anyone of a competent beginner standard onwards I really enjoyed it - thank you!
By Richard Winickoff on 3/12/2023
I like how you can leave the course for awhile to practice and memorize the riffs and chords and then resume at any time. And the new material can easily be incorporated into what you already know.
By Philip Platt on 11/10/2022
I am taking this course after completing your Basic Chords course. so far, so good
By Derek Pearson on 10/3/2022
Arthur is clear with his teaching and the resources he provides are well worth the money - clearly notated and professionally printed. He is a very good teacher and I wish this sort of online tuition had been available 60 years ago .
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Overall Score : 94 / 100











