This best selling book, 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs by Andrew Gordon is an
exhaustive guide to some of the best musical phrases that make up blues
piano/keyboard playing. There are five sections broken down into:
- Basic Blues riffs
- R&B influenced Blues riffs
- Boogie Woogie
- Rock influenced Blues riffs
- Gospel influenced Blues riffs
The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale are explained. There
are two completed songs at the back of the book that shows how to
combine many of the riffs to form a song.
The London College of Music in the U.K. is currently using examples from the "100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards" in their jazz program as part of their recommended learning materials from grade 3 through grade 8.