Piano day (1h 40m)

Voicings + left hand

Voice leading & left hand combined workout
- Dominant to Major (+7 — m9) — Dan Haerle skills 39a, 39b
Inversions + extensions
- 7ths
- 9ths
- C Dorian progression

Scale studies

Comping

Comping over Worth the Wait in D to the walking bass & drums backing track in iReal
- Avoiding roots and block in LH
- Voice leading / smooth shells transition in RH
- A little bit of soloing
- Trying to avoid clashes w/ bass

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

Improv + scale studies
- 2-octave Locrian scales in all keys
  - Both hands
  - In harmonic thirds + 1-5 shells in LH
Jazz voicings
- Dorian fourthy voicings (D, G, C, F) — man I needed it so badly!
Left hand + technique
- Intervallic patterns
  - 1-5-10 (all m & M)
  - 1-5-10 — (5) — 1-5-10 over ii — V — I – IV + iiø — V7b9 — i (major + parallel minor) in shells in RH — KILLER!

Improv + scale studies
- 2-octave Dorian scales in all keys with both hands
- Same in harmonic thirds in RH + 5ths in LH
- Harmonic thirds in RH + 1-5-10 in LH
- Applying Dorian scales (also in thirds) over chromatic progression of m7 shells (3-7-9) — lesson 13 from Dan Haerle’s “Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players”
  - Emphasis on accidentals of each key
Left hand + technique / speed
- m7 & maj7 arpeggios around the cycle of 4ths
- Intervallic patterns
  - 1-5-10 (m & M)
  - 1-5-(8va)-1-3-5-7-(8va)-1
Interpreting pop tunes
- Katy Perry — Lost (first couple of lines)
  - Block chords
  - Shells
  - Intervallic patterns

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