Piano day (1h 30m)

Comping practice (“A Child is Born” by Thad Jones) — exercise from “Jazz Language” book by Dan Haerle
- Playing a jazz standard from the Real Book (to walking bass + drums accompaniment) with roots / block arpeggios in LH & shell voicings in RH
- Using 3-7-9, 7-3-6, 7-3-5 shells
- Trying to follow the “minimum movement” principle
Improvisation (only left hand)
- Cycling dominant 7th chords in 7-3-6 — 3-7-9
- Cycling minor to dominant progression in 3-7-9 — 7-3-6

Bass day (1h 30m)

Warm-up: walking bass line to a jazz standard with chromatic passing tones, reading in Nashville notation
Chord tones (Phil Mann)
- Major 7th chord arpeggios in all inversions consequently, chromatically up the neck, in two fingerings
- Same with minor 7th and dominant 7th chord arpeggios (also in 2 fingerings)
- Applying inversions: 2nd & 3rd in ascending & descending motion to a jazz standard (+ passing tones)

Improvisation (Dan Haerle — Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players)
- Lesson 12: Cycling progressions of 5ths in shell voicings + improv with corresponding Mixo & Dorian scales
  - Dominant chords around the cycle of 4ths in 7-3-5 & 3-7-9 — click at 80bpm
  - Minor to dominant around the cycle — click at 80bpm
  - All Mixo & Dorian scales with both hands

Chord tones (Phil Mann)
- Major 7th chord arpeggios in all inversions consequently, chromatically up and down the neck
- Same with minor 7th, dominant and diminished 7th chord arpeggios