Chords for Most Awesome Right Hand Boogie Woogie Riff for Beginners

[G] Hi guys, today we're going to be focusing on [A] boogie woogie right hand riffs.
Now this is straight from the late great Albert Ammons.
Come round here to the right [G] hand camera person.
And this is, I've taken this from Bass Going Crazy, _ but you can just take one riff and make a complete boogie out of it.
Now watch this.
It's a short riff, it _ [E] goes_
It's a nice riff there.
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[Bbm] _ [Am] _ [Eb] _ [N] That's the riff.
Now I'm going to play it one more time so you can get it and then I'm going to show you everything [G] you can do with it.
So here we go. _
_ _ Get that.
[Gm] And then this, _ that's kind of like an augmented fourth [Eb] I think.
That's a major [E] fourth so you just go up a semitone.
The B flat and the E natural.
[Gm] _ So, _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] then down in thirds one more time.
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That's the tricky one.
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_ _ [Bbm] And then down [Am] thirds. _
[G] And what you can do, just stay there camera person, if you just put the chop in the left hand, _ _ you can just make a whole boogie woogie out of it. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Now that's [B] almost like a complete boogie woogie in [G] itself.
What do you think camera person?
It certainly is.
And that's just one riff from Bass Going Crazy by Albert Ammons.
Now _ come over here to the right hand again camera person.
Now I'm going to make it a little bit more complex.
_ So again, first of all, the first thing you have to do is just get that riff.
_ [Gm] And then that augmented fourth _ is the tricky one.
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[B] all I'm doing when I go up to the fourth chord, [C] I'm just putting a _ B flat there.
So I'm just going, so he's changing [Dm] it slightly and putting in a few trills and you can do [D] something like this.
Start off with a kind of de-augmented, hit on tremolos.
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_ _ you see we've made a whole kind of boogie woogie.
I know I did a few [B] advanced improvisations there, but it all comes back to [Bb] this riff here which I nicked from Bass [Dm] Going Crazy.
I mean I varied it a [Eb] little bit, but essentially the whole root of that boogie woogie which I did there, just improvised it [G] was, _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Bm] _ [Bbm] _ [Am] _ [Eb] I mean [D] that's basically the whole root of the boogie which I just did there, which I just [G] improvised. _
_ [Gm] _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ Just put the chop [G] there in the left hand like that.
And before you do all the advanced stuff, just simply do [N] that.
If you say you can't do all the fancy stuff, just simply just play it really really [G] straight.
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[A] _ [G] do that. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Just play that. _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ See what I [G] mean?
So you don't have to kind of play a [Abm] whole load of fancy boogie riffs, but just see if you can just play that [C] straight boogie woogie and all we've done is create a whole boogie woogie [A] just by using one [E] riff from Alvin [N] Ammons.
And that's what I call the magpie technique, which I go into more detail in my amazing book, The Ultimate Guide to Badass Boogie, which is in Volume 1 of the Badass Boogie Bundle.
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