Similar left hand workout with focus on major extended intervals. Broken 10th are combined with 9ths and 4ths (one octave up). Right hand plays two-note shells of major chords. Rolling around the cycle of 4ths.
Author: Jan
Je suis cool.
Cycling 10ths & 6ths workout
Another routine that I use for developing intevallic patterns fluency in the left hand (combining with simple chord shells in the right hand). This one focuses on broken 10ths while also including minor 6ths. Taking it around the cycle of 4ths or circle of 5ths works the best for me.
Bass day (1h 30m)
Modal pentatonics
- Dissecting Lydian pentatonic
- Restricting to 3 & 4 strings
- Linking shapes in Lydian (positions I & IX, all keys, w/ click)
Reading
- John Patitucci — F Major etude
- Hrabe #6
Piano day (1h)
Scale studies + left hand
- All Locrian scales in 2 tempos
- Harmonising Locrian scale in 7-3-5 shells in RH and different patterns in LH
- Blocks
- Ascending 10ths + upper octave 4ths & arpeggios
- Repeated 10ths
- 10ths + extensions
Piano day (1h 40m)
Modal studies
- Lydian DNA in 7th arpeggios
- LH only
- LH + alternating shells in RH (gave up pretty quickly, need to approach it slowly)
- Harmonising Lydian scale in chord pairs around the cycle in growing gaps (Imaj7 — II7, Imaj7 — iii, Imaj7 — #IV, etc. — e. g. C — D, F — A-, Bb — Eø, etc.) — extra cool exercise!
Arpeggios + combined LH & RH melodic studies
This badass workout achieves three goals:
- Improve LH technique by drilling the 2-octave arpeggios along with harmonic intervals
- Think in chord tones and improve key fluency
- Enjoy the non-boring exercise that actually sounds nice even though you’re still just playing a diatonic pattern around the cycle of goddam fourths
Improv
- Major blues scale improv in all keys (recap)
- LH: harmonic 5ths & 6ths
- Broken 10ths + blocks
Just for the hell of it
- All Lydian scales (similar & contrary motion)
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