- Voicing skills
- Recap shell voicings (exercises from “Jazz Piano Voicing Skills”)
- Dominant sus 4 in 4-7-9
- Dominant sus 4 in 7-9-4-6
- Recap shell voicings (exercises from “Jazz Piano Voicing Skills”)
- Improvisation
- Cycling dominant 7 chords + Mixolydian scales
- RH patterns: diatonic, 1-7-1-4-1-3-4, 1-7-1-3-5-1-4
- Cycling minor to dominant transition + Dorian & Mixo scales
- Cycling dominant to major 7 transition + Mixo scale
- Cycling dominant 7 chords + Mixolydian scales
Category: piano
Piano day (2h)
- Voicing skills
- Recap all shell voicings (exercises from “Jazz Piano Voicing Skills”)
- 3-7-9 minor, major & dominant around the cycle of 4ths
- Same in 7-3-5
- Same in 7-3-6
- Cycle progressions
- Minor 7ths (3-7-9 to 7-3-5, 7-3-5 to 3-7-9)
- Major 7ths (same)
- Dominant 7ths (same)
- Recap all shell voicings (exercises from “Jazz Piano Voicing Skills”)
- Improvisation
- I — IV — V + 12-bar major blues
- C, F, Bb (changing keys without stopping)
- I — IV — V + 12-bar major blues
Piano day (1h 20m)
Yo! A couple of sleepless nights, score submitted 10 mins before deadline, now back to practice.
- Improvisation
- Blues in shell voicings in LH + improv with modal & blues scales in RH
- I — IV — V in C
- 12-bar major blues
- 12-bar minor blues
- Cycling dominant chords + Mixo scales
Piano day (1h 40m)
- Dominant chords in chromatic progression in 3-7-9 voicings (Lesson 13 from “Jazz Piano Improvisation for Keyboard Players”)
- Blues progressions (Lesson 11 from the same book)
- I — IV — V in Bb
- 12-bar major blues in Bb
- Only LH patterns this time
- II — V — Is in major and parallel minor with no pauses in 3-7-9 / 3-7-5 around the circle of 5ths (my favourite exercise so far)
Piano day (1h 30m)
- II — V — Is in major and parallel minor with no pauses in 3-7-9 / 3-7-5 around the circle of 5ths (skill 44 from “Jazz Piano Voicing Skills” book)
- Recap blues progressions and corresponding scales (Lesson 11 from “Jazz Piano Improvisation for Keyboard Players”)
- I — IV — V in C
- 12-bar major blues in C
- 12-bar minor blues in C-
- C Blues scale + corresponding Mixo / Dorian / Harmonic Minor scales
Yeah, right hand’s getting better. No skateboarding this week.
