Piano day (1h 40m)

Scale studies

• All Lydian scales
• All Ionian scales
• Scale dissection: C#, F#, A Phrygian over moving minor arpeggios

Left hand + comping

• Descending 10ths workout on All My Loving progression in F#-

Interpretation

• The Beatles — All My Loving (variation #2)
  • LH: broken 10ths (alternating ascending & descending)
  • Chromatic side-slipping (found in Dan Harle’s Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players)
  • Gershwin reversed stride bass
  • RH: arpeggiated shells, voice leading

Next time focus

• Locrian + Mixolydian week
• Try chromatic side-slipping in right hand as well
• Back to embellished ii — V — i’s
• Next left hand pattern
• Scale dissection over permutations — attempt #2 😄