Chords for Cool Professor Longhair Riff

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Hi guys, I wanted to share with [N] you a Professor Longhair trick which I picked up a while ago
and we've done a few Professor [F] Longhair [Ab]
videos on this channel if [N] you go back and check on the video
we did on how to play Big Chief and one or two things, how to play Tipitina was another tutorial
I want to share this kind of Professor [B] Longhair lick trick if you like which I picked up from him
from his version of Tipitina and I think it's a very simple lick but it's very effective
and it's simply, I'll play it first and then you can come in so it's one _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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of the Professor's little
trademark things and I want you to [N] learn how to do it because it's a good exercise in itself
so camera person if you just come around to the right hand and I'll show you how it goes now
[F] So Tipitina is in F and this is the trick here so [A] it's I play, I don't know if you can get that in camera person?
Yes.
You're a bit quiet today okay so [C] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ [A] it's _ you play octaves in left hand and then go
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_ [F] _ _ I'll do it again you need to get in both hands so _ [C] _ _ [A] it's _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [B] _ [C] that's the essence of the trick and it does
it [Ab] descending as well so _ [Gb] _ _
[F] _ it's so _ _ _
_ _ [C] that's the essence of it [A] there and [Bb] _ _
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_ then descending
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[C] _ _ [F] _ what you can do with this [B] lick [Em] is you can actually make an [C] exercise out of it
for example when you're warming up in the morning you could take Professor Longhair's little
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you don't have to do it that fast but the [C] essence of the lick is you play in the octave right so
you play the octave in the left hand and then you go
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_ mean that sounds quite cool in itself and [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] go and listen to Professor Longhair's version [Fm] of
Tipitina particularly where he's just playing solo piano and you'll see if you can spot where
he puts that licking [F] it's _ _
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_ [Bb] just one of these little tricks but I've kind of taken that and turned it
into a kind of
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it's _ _ [C] a great that's a great exercise a fairly [Ab] advanced exercise for those of you [G] who have
problems playing [Gb] hands together remember one of the perennial questions I get from many of my
subscribers is you know when I put hands together I lose my coordination well doing an exercise like
that every day like [G] this _ _ _ [Db] do that your left [Dbm] hand and your right hand really [N] have to work in harmony
with each other and even if you can do it [C] slowly you know _ [Db] _ [D] _
_ _ [E] you don't have to do it the kind of speed
that I do it slow it right down _ and [F] _ [E] do that for five minutes a day as part of your kind [G] of boogie
woogie hand warming up exercise and you'll soon find that you will be a maestro so as always this
is Dr K with a little [Eb] Professor Longhair's secret give me your questions your comments if you've
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is Dr K with a little bit of Professor Professor Longhair and I will talk to you _ soon
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