Boogie woogie family, for beginners: Featuring six most popular and widely used boogie woogie rhythms
The author: Andrew Bernard Barnes (1893-1947) was a well-known Seattle musician and composer. Born in England, he came to Seattle as a youth. He was the composer of nationally published songs of a classical and semi-classical nature and also was the author of books on piano and organ instruction. Mr. Barnes had taught music and played the organ/piano in theaters in Seattle before sound motion pictures. The book: This 40-page book teaches you chords, bass patterns, how to build Boogie Woogie Rhythms from chords, left hand technique, time signature, dissonance and discords, crushed notes and the tremolo. It gives you a few solos. It's all in the key of C, F and G. The time signatures are 4/4 and 3/4. Up to three ledger lines and 4 note chords are seen. It shows chords notation and fingerings. It has triplets, dotted eight and sixteenth notes.