Category: piano

Piano day (1h 30m)

Left hand + moving shells

  • Combining moving shells with LH patterns
    • Minor to Dominant (skill 37c from Jazz Piano Voicing Skills) + LH: [1-5][1-7][1-1’][1-4-5]i — 1-5-10-1’-5’-6’IV7
    • Dominant to Major (skill 38a from Jazz Piano Voicing Skills) + LH: 1-5-10-6 to 1‘-1I7 + desc arpeggio + 6IV

Scale studies

  • Concurrent Ion + Lyd 1-octave scales (in 2 forms)

Soloing + comping

  • All Love is Fair Focus on 3-7-9 shells in LH and major / minor scales in RH

Observations

Try constructing 3-7-9 voicing in LH from 9 down!

Piano day (1h 40m)

Jazz voicings + Left hand

  • Combining cycling shells with left hand patterns
    • Minor to Dominant (Dan Haerle, Jazz Piano Voicing Skills, Skill 37c) + LH: [1-5][1-7][1-1’][1-4-5]i — 1-5-10-1’-5’-6’IV7

Scale studies + Left hand + Shells

  • Combining blues scale improv with moving extension shells
    • RH: minor blues scale, LH: 1 — [3’-7’-9’]
  • All Aeolian scales
  • All Locrian scales

Piano day (1h 30m)

Scale studies + Modes

  • Combining modes (4th apart)
    • Ionian into Lydian (1 octave scales)
      • C Ion →  F Lyd → Bb Ion → Eb Lyd → …
      • F Ion → Bb Lyd → Eb Ion → Ab Lyd → …
    • Dorian to Mixolydian (same approach)
  • Major blues scale recap (alternating blocks / broken 10ths in LH)

Left hand

  • Phrygian i — II — III7 in 5-1-10 + desc. arpeggios (F#)

Piano day (1h 30m)

Scale studies

  • Phrygian scales
    • Circle of 5ths from E
    • Cycle of 4ths from C

Left hand / Improvisation

  • Phrygian improv
    • LH: 5-1-10 + 7th arp descent, RH: shells
    • LH: 5-1-10 + octave jump back, RH: shells
    • LH: 1-5-10 + 1-5-6 recap
  • Blues scale recap (all keys, block — 1-3-4 — 7-1-2-3 accompaniment)

Jazz voicings

  • Fourthy voicings (D thru Bb)