Piano day (1h 40m)

Improvisation (Dan Haerle — Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players)
- Lesson 11: Blues progressions
  - F blues scale over 3 classic progressions (I — IV — V, 12-bar major and minor), shell voicings with LH
  - F blues scale + passing Mixo, Dor & H. M. scales over same progressions
  - C blues scale + passing modal scales over same progression in C
  - All scales used in progressions separately with both hands in 2 octaves

Observations

Just as I expected: running the scale and then immediately using it is the best way to make this process NOT boring. Just running scales is cool, but it only helps internalise the fingerings and does not really make them just pop out when you need them in the middle of the chord progression.

Bass reading (30m)

Reading a random contrabass etude just because I had some time for it 😄

Bass day (1h 30m)

Walking bass
- Practice with Nashville number notation (several random keys over Mixolydian and Dorian progression)
  - Focus on chormatic transitions avoiding the root (e. g. to the 3rd or to the 5th of the following chord)
Chord tones (Phil Mann)
- Major 7th chord arpeggios in all inversions consequently, chromatically up and down the neck
- Practice 7th chord inversions over a standard in Nashville notation (focus on 2nd inversion, up and down + improv)

Bass day (1h 40m)

Chord tones (Phil Mann)
- Walking bass practice with Nashville number notation (keys of C — Ab around the cycle of 4ths)
- 7th chord inversions (1st and 2nd) with 2 different fingerings up and down, not looking at the neck
- Practice 7th chord inversions over a standard in Nashville notation (1st and 2nd, up and down + improv)
Pick + reading practice
- Learning a part (What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye)

Bass day (1h 30m)

Walking bass practice with Nashville number notation (keys of C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab)
Tons of Runs (Andy Laverne book) — recap 1st dominant figure + new one, apply to several chords
Practice 7th chord inversions over blues progression in Nashville notation in several keys (root, 1st, 1st reversed)
Run all 1st inversions of all 7th chords in 2 fingerings around the cycle of 4ths (to a click)

Bass day (1h 40m)

Latin rhythms & walking bass
- Cha-cha-cha in G & E
- Walking bass practice with Nashville number notation (keys of G, E, C, Bb)
Chord tones
- Recap all 7th chords in all inversions around the cycle of 4ths
- In context of the song (very briefly)
Tons of Runs (Andy Laverne book) — reading in treble + learning licks for soloing: dominant 7th run in 3 keys

Observations

OMG! I don’t know if it’s just a recent update or was always there, but I have just discovered that you can display chord charts in iReal Pro in NUMBER NOTATION!!! YAAAAAY!!! That’s an absolute killer. Keep improving walking bass line skills and at the same time finally internalise all scale degrees relationships (even though the app is not smart enough to detect mode mixing and modulations to other keys, but still!). Priceless.