Category: piano

Piano day (2h)

Chord tones / Left hand / Comping

  • All inversions of 7th chords over standard: All Of Me in G, C
  • 1-5-10-7-1-3-5 LH + Shells over All Of Me in C

Scale studies

  • All Lydian scales

Interpretation

  • Elvis — Can’t Help Falling In Love (1-5-10 + extensions, inversions, voice leading)

Observations

Always build the interpretation up from simple block chords!

Piano day (1h)

Left hand + modes

  • Filling the gaps in Dorian (C — Ab) — play the high root with RH, octave lower with LH and fill the gaps using only chord tones with the remaining fingers of the LH
  • LH 1-5-10 / 1-5-9-7-6 Dorian I — IV7, I — VI, cycle

Interpretation / comping

  • All Of Me (first 4 bars)

Piano day (1h)

Jazz voicings + Left hand

  • ii — V — I m & M in 1-5-10 & shells
  • Minor to dominant in 1-5-10 + 4 + 7 around the cycle (only left hand)
  • Generic voicings (circle + ii — V7 — Is — C, F, Bb) — from Voicings for Jazz Keyboard by Frank Mantooth

Scale studies

  • All major & minor scales recap