- Improvisation (Dan Haerle — Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players)
- Lessons 1—3
- Flowing Melodic improvisation over II — V — I in C, F, G, Bb & D
- Jazz voicings (Dan Haerle — Jazz Piano Voicings)
- II — V — I in major + parallel minor
Author: Jan
Je suis cool.
Bass day (1h 30m)
- Chord tones
- II — V — I’s
- In the keys of C, F, Bb & Eb, all inversions
- II — V — I’s
- Walking bass lines
- 3/4 Bossa Nova over a jazz standard
- Walking bass line including passing tones & enclosures over same standard
Piano day (1h 30m)
- Jazz voicings
- II — V — I’s in 7-3-5 — 3-7-9 — 7-3-5 / 7-3-b5 — 3-7-b9 — 7-3-5 in major & parallel minor: C through Db
- Harmonising major scale with 7th chords (all keys)
- Harmonising Dorian scale with 7th chords (all keys)
Bass day (1h 30m)
- Chord tones
- Harmonising Dorian scale with 7th chords — all inversions, playing to the click, no pauses
- D Dorian
- A Dorian
- E Dorian
- II — V — I’s
- In the keys of C, F, Bb & Eb, all inversions
- Harmonising Dorian scale with 7th chords — all inversions, playing to the click, no pauses
- Walking bass lines
- Dominant 2-octave bass line around the cycle of 4ths
- Improvisation over the same chord progression, emphasising the b7ths & b6ths
Observations
Finally getting better at 2-octave dominant scales! This time played with almost no mistakes.
Piano day (1h 20m)
- II — V — I’s
- Major (both formats, with click, no pauses)
- Minor (format 1, with click, no pauses)
- Major + parallel minor (no click, reading from the sheet)
Observations
I urgently need some LH exercises and more topics, as shell voicings and II — V — I’s, as cool as they are, are starting to get slightly boring (because I have basically been focused just on them for the good two months). New jazz piano books are on their way!
