Category: piano

Piano day (1h)

  • Improvisation
    • Chromatic progressions (“Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players” by Dan Haerle)
      • Mixolydian scales over dominant 7th chords in shells in all keys
      • Dorian scales over minor 7th chords in shells in all keys
    • Melodies (reading a couple of examples from book II of “Jazz Improvisation”)
      • Repetition
      • Transposition
      • Exercise 1: dominant run around the cycle of 4ths
      • Exercise 2: Dorian run around the cycle of 4ths
      • Motive inversion
    • Recap Lydian pentatonic & minor blues scale in all keys

Piano day (1h 40m)

  • Jazz voicings
    • ii — V —I’s (major & parallel minor over IV) in all keys, inverted arpeggios / inversions with LH
    • Major & minor 7th chords around the cycle in all inversions
  • Comping
    • Using shells & chord scales over a standard (Worth the Wait in F)
      • Mixo scale over dominant chords
      • Dorian & minor blues over minor
      • Lydian pentatonic over major

Piano day (1h 30m)

  • Jazz voicings
    • ii7 — V7 — Imaj7 — VImaj7 — ii⌀ — Vb9 — i in all keys, 3 times
      • LH playing the block chord
      • LH playing 2-octave arpeggio
      • LH playing root + 1st inversion
  • Improvistaion
    • Lydian pentatonic in all keys (over maj7 chord)
    • Minor blues + major blues + Lydian pentatonic over ii — V — I in all keys (avoiding the roots)

Piano day (1h 30m)

  • Improvisation
    • Minor pentatonics in all keys (cycling over m7 chords)
    • Major pentatonics in all keys (cycling over maj7 chords)
    • Superimposing pentatonics (in all keys around the cycle)
      • VII over I, vi over i
      • V over I, v over i
      • iii over I, III over i
    • Minor blues scale improv in all keys broken in 2 octaves
  • Modal studies
    • Dorian 7th arpeggios (asc / desc) in C, F & Bb
    • Dorian 7th arpeggios + shells (7-3-5 over asc, 3-7-(#)9 over desc)