Music
jazz
Discover: Boogie-Woogie
Best Age
Best Age
wk 12–104
Category
Music
Audio Track & Sing-Along Available in BabyNook
Listen to the full song, vocal melody, and soothing instrumental tracks directly in the BabyNook app.
About this music
Boogie-woogie is a style of blues-based piano music that emerged in African-American communities in the American South around 1900 and exploded in popularity during the late 1930s and 1940s. Its hallmark is an insistent, rolling left-hand bass pattern — the 'boogie bass' — played against syncopated right-hand melodies. Pianists like Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons made the style famous. The relentless forward drive of boogie-woogie is almost impossible to sit still to — it's joyful, physical music designed to make people move.
How to do it (Step by step)
- Let your baby feel the vibrations by placing a hand on the speaker.
- Clap along to the steady bass beat with them.
- Wiggle fingers like you're playing piano keys together.