Tag: Dorian

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Chord tones
    • Harmonising Phrygian scale with 7th chords — all inversions, playing to the click, with pauses between chords
      • E Phrygian
      • B Phrygian
      • F# Phrygian
    • Harmonising major scale with 7th chords — all inversions, no pauses
      • C
      • F
      • Bb
      • Eb
  • Walking bass lines
    • Dominant 2-octave bass line around the cycle of 4ths

Observations

Although I intentionally focus only on a couple of things, and it pays of, as I’m getting better real quick, I’m starting to feel that my practice gets a little bit boring. Need to get some new stuff in.

Bass day (1h 20m)

  • Chord tones
    • Harmonising Dorian scale with 7th chords — all inversions, playing to the click, with pauses between chords
      • D Dorian
      • A Dorian
      • E Dorian
  • Walking bass lines
    • II — V — I shapes recap (Scott’s Jazz Survival course)
    • Improv over Autumn Leaves in G-
    • Dominant 2-octave bass line around the cycle of 4ths

Piano day (1h 20m)

  • Jazz voicings (Dan Haerle)
    • Major ii — V — I’s around the cycle of 4ths, format 1 (skill 40) at 90bpm — 20m
    • Major ii — V — I’s around the cycle of 4ths, format 2 (skill 41) at 70bpm — 20m
    • Applyiing patterns: playing from chord chart to the walking bass line & shuffle, using 3-7-9, 3-6-9 and 7-3-5 voicings as well as some chord tones based fills — 20m
  • Scales & harmonisation
    • 2-octave scales with both hands in similar motion (just needed to recap): Ionian, Aeolian and Dorian around the cycle — 20m

Piano day (1h 30m)

  • Blues pentatonic scale in RH over 12-bar blues chord progression in LH: C-, F-, Bb-, D#-, G#- — 30m
    • 1 — 6, 1 — 5, 1 — 4, 1 — 3
    • 2-octave scale | 1-octave scale 8va | % | 1st pattern | % | 2-octave scale backwards
  • ii — V — I’s in major keys in shell voicings (7-3-5 — 3-7-9 — 7-3-5) through the cycle of 4th  (Dan Haerle, skill 40) — 40m
    • Slowly without click
    • With click at 80bpm quarters
  • Scales — 20m
    • All Phrygian scales around the circle of 5ths starting on E at 82bpm
    • All Dorian scales around the circle of 5ths starting on D at 82bpm

Observations

Applying Rich Brown’s idea from yesterday’s Q & A where he showed how he makes pentatonic scale practice less boring by playing interesting patterns, like doubling up some notes or playing additional scale degrees. It works! Otherwise taking 12-bar blues around the whole cycle could be pretty boring!