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
  • 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!