Piano day (1h)

Left hand + modes

  • Filling the gaps in Dorian (C — Ab) — play the high root with RH, octave lower with LH and fill the gaps using only chord tones with the remaining fingers of the LH
  • LH 1-5-10 / 1-5-9-7-6 Dorian I — IV7, I — VI, cycle

Interpretation / comping

  • All Of Me (first 4 bars)

Piano day (1h)

Jazz voicings + Left hand

  • ii — V — I m & M in 1-5-10 & shells
  • Minor to dominant in 1-5-10 + 4 + 7 around the cycle (only left hand)
  • Generic voicings (circle + ii — V7 — Is — C, F, Bb) — from Voicings for Jazz Keyboard by Frank Mantooth

Scale studies

  • All major & minor scales recap

Piano day (1h 50m)

  • Improv + scale studies
    • 2-octave Lydian scales in all keys
      • Both hands
      • In harmonic thirds + 1-5 shells in LH
    • C scale in all modes (grand form) — do it in all keys now!
  • Left hand + jazz voicings
    • Intervallic patterns
      • 1-5-10 — (5) — 1-5-10 descent around the cycle of 4ths
        • Special focus on Gb — B — E part where 10th jumps get harder
  • Comping
    • Walking bass (chord tones + passing tones) & shells and inversions over All Of Me in G