Piano day (1h 30m)

  • 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
  • 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

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)
  • Improvisation
    • I — IV — V + 12-bar major blues
      • C, F, Bb (changing keys without stopping)

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.