Cover List
My Boogie Blues song list.
I’m not capable of playing any upbeat sounding authentic Boogie Woogie songs yet. I do have a growing list of simple boogie blues tunes most of which I’ve learn via lesson books. These boogie blues songs are my stepping stones to real boogie woogie playing. Even though they lack real pizzazz I believe most of them with a little improvisation thrown in sound pretty good. During the year of 2011 I really hope to perfect the playing of these songs!
no list yet … 
My Pop Rock 70′s/80′s song list.
Though I have 30 some songs listed as of October 2010 I can only play about half the list. Now when I say play … I mean I can play simplified one man band versions with bass notes in left hand and chords and or melodfy in right hand. They surely don’t sound beautiful. The songs I like most feature a strong left hand bass arpeggio while I play chords and short riffs with the right hand. In the background I have the Juno-Stage drum rhythm playing and then my bad vocals which help cover up my worst playing. I’m not using any audio backing type tracks.
no list yet … … The list itself is always changing. I keep adding songs I like but find out later they are too difficult for me to play well. I’m hoping in 2011 I can trimm the the list to a set of about 30 songs I can actually play.
Why the lists ?
Lists are important because on my Juno-Stage keyboard I can save up to 64 Performances. In a Performance I can save all the keyboard control settings, layers, sound patchess along with the drum rhythm and volume levels for a particular song. These performance settings are stored in the memory of the electronic keyboard. So the next time I want to play song number ten in my list I just load performance number ten and wah-la … I’m good to go with tempo and part volumes set as needed.
I also make much use of my Boss DR-880 bass and drum machine. For many songs on my Boggie Blues song list I have drum patterns with bass guitar setups programmed. Thus when I play a song I first start the DR-880 drum machine with a foot switch and then start playing along on the keyboard. It’s like having a real drummer and bass player except the machine never loses beat and I don’t have to pay it. Most of my Boogie Blues songs use the same Performance setting on the keyboard however they nearly all have individual DR-880 drum and bass patterns programmed for them. Thus I always write on my little cheat sheet for each song the Performance and DR-880 program numbers I need to dial up before playing them.
