Fast Boogie Woogie, Solo Piano : Andrew Elias - “Cold Hands Boogie“

Movie recorded both before {practice} and during {performance} the Dutch Boogie Woogie Festival, Ermelo in March 2009. Two slightly different versions of the same solo piano piece, each one shot from a different side so anyone who’s perhaps interested can get a view of both the left and right hand parts. This is a self composition {in so much as anything riff based like this can be?!}. The first movie clip clearly shows a very unusual fingering technique I use with the left hand, i.e. often I don’t use my *Little* {5th} Finger when playing fast Boogie Woogie - I substitute the 4th and 3rd {together!} instead. Watch closely at the , and minute timings for some quite adept finger ’switching’ - I call it moving in and out of my special Boogie Woogie Turbo-Drive Mode, lol! {as there seems no doubt to me that playing *without* the little finger I can generate a more powerful rhythm and sound}.