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Most of my time recently has been spent on a large transcription project that is not quite finished. So my March offering was a little bon-bon, in fact, a little Bluesy Bon-bon.
In 1993 Donald Fagen, co-founder, lead singer and keyboardist for Steely Dan, made a tutorial video,
Concepts for Jazz/Rock Piano, that includes him playing a 12-bar blues pattern on an acoustic piano. Warren Bernhardt played the Left Hand part on a Fender-Rhodes electric piano. I've transcribed both parts and combined them into a two-hand piano arrangement.
Donald Fagen says that this is similar to "Chain Lightning" from Steely Dan's Katy Lied album (1975). It demonstrates the two most common chord substitutions in Blues and Rock, i.e., the minor vi and the minor v chords over the root of the chord.
If you'd like to learn how to use these two important substitutions in your own playing - and see how Fagen himself uses them - this transcription/arrangement should prove very helpful.
Two options are available, sheet music and a MIDI file.
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