Category: piano

Piano day (1h 40m)

  • Improvisation
    • Chromatic progressions
      • Mixolydian over dominant, 3-7-9 shells, all keys
      • Dorian over minor, same
  • Modal studies
    • Harmonising Lydian mode
      • All keys, using 7-3-5 shells in RH and 1-5, 1-6 pattern in LH
  • Exotic stuff
    • Just trying different polychods from “The Jazz Language”
  • Comping + soloing
    • Airegin in A-
      • 2 runs of solo
      • 3 runs of comping with 1-5-1-6 pattern in LH
    • Baubles, Bangles and Beads in G
      • Comping + broken 10ths in LH

Piano day (1h 40m)

  • Technique / left hand
    • LH patterns
      • Steady 5ths & 6ths (in all keys around the cycle)
      • Broken 10ths + occasional 6ths
        • Modal progression in C Dorian (i — v — ii — IV7 — i — IIImaj7 — VImaj7 — IV7)
        • Around the cycle
      • Stride (quick recap, didn’t go full circle)
  • Improvisation + scales study
    • All minor scales in handfuls (playing scales as tonal clusters with proper fingering) — learned from this vid

Piano day (2h)

  • Modal studies
    • Harmonising Mixolydian mode with shells (3-7-9) — C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db
    • Harmonising Dorian mode with shells (3-7-9) — C, F, Bb, Eb
  • Improvisation
    • Lydian pentatonic in all keys over major chords in 7-3-6 shells
    • Recap minor blues scale
    • Harmonising Mixolydian mode with block chords & 7-3-5 shells in LH & runs starting on each new scale degree in RH (C-D-E-F…, D-E-F-G…, F-G-A-Bb…, etc.)
    • Same for Dorian
  • Comping
    • Free comping over “Worth the Wait” in Eb (just chords & focus on voice leading)
    • “Worth the Wait” in C — block chords in LH, chord scales in RH

Piano day (1h 40m)

  • Improvisation
    • Chromatic progressions
      • Mixolydian scales over dominant 7th chords in shells in all keys
        • LH separately
        • Shells with LH
        • Arpeggiated shells with LH
      • Dorian scales over minor 7th chords in shells in all keys (same approach)
    • Just a quick Lydian pentatonic recap
  • Modal studies
    • Mixolydian transitions between all degrees in A — B voicings (F)
      • Base 7-3-5
      • Base 3-7-9
    • Same with Dorian (C, F)

Piano day (1h)

  • Jazz voicings
    • Recap: cycling all maj7 shells (base 7-3-5, base 3-7-9)
    • Recap: cycling all m7 shells (base 7-3-5, base 3-7-9)
    • Recap: cycling all 7 shells (base 7-3-5, base 3-7-9)
    • Cycling all dominant sus4 / polychords
    • Recap: minor to dominant in two formats
  • Modal studies
    • Voice leading patterns in Dorian (A — B voicings)
    • Voice leading patterns in Mixolydian