- Improvisation
- Inversions recap
- Root, 1st & 2nd over jazz standard
- Pick practice (Jamerson’s part from “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”)
Category: bass
Very quick bass day (1h)
- Improv over a jazz standard in Nashville notation focusing on chromatic passing tones and chord tones
- Extended arpeggios (soloing exercise from Scott’s seminar) — 7 5 3 (8vb) — 1 3 5 7 — 1 3 (8va)
- Soloing: up and down the arpeggios (over a standard in normal notation)
Bass day (1h 20m)
- Modes
- Improv (emphasis on altered scale degrees) over Ionian, Aeolian, Lydian, Mixo and Dorian cycling progression (2 bars of each key)
- Chord tones (Phil Mann)
- Dominant 7th chord arpeggios in all inversions consequently, chromatically up the neck, in two fingerings
- Same with m7b5 arpeggios
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)
Bass day (1h 30m)
- 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
Black Hole Piano 