Piano day (1h 30m)

(Back to practice after a 3-day travel.)

• Improvisation
  • Minor blues scale in all keys (over m7 chords in 7-3-5 shells)
  • Major blue scale in all keys over dominant chords in shells
  • Alternating between major and minor blues (sounded like crap)
  • Major Bebop scale in all keys around the cycle of 4ths (tried over major and dominant)
• Left hand
  • 2-octave stride patterns
    • Progression from “Just One of Those Things” (without right hand)
    • Harmonising C minor with 2-octave jumps (root → 1st inversion with added m6, i. e. 3-6-1)

Next time: harmonise a tune from the Real Book, play to the walking bass & drums track, do some voicings, search for & add technical exercises