Black Eyed Blues is a blues-influenced piano piece that blends standard popular song structures with jazz-inflected harmonies. Its distinctive feature is the reliance on 'blue' notes and swing-style syncopation.
Focus on balancing the vocal-like melody against the supporting harmonic chords.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Black Eyed Blues is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 3.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Black Eyed Blues lasts about 3 minutes.
Black Eyed Blues is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include 'Who Knows?' by Ernest Roland Ball, Canto del Bardo by José Ferrer, Blumenklage by Gustav Lange — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.