Tag: II-V-I

Piano day (2h 10m)

  • Voicing skills — 1h 20m
    • Quick recap II — V — I — IVs in major + relative minor
    • II — V — I — IV in major + relative minor with embellished chords (m9 — 13 — △9 — △ — m7b5 — 7b9 — m9) — did’t really get through all keys, but boy it was intense anyway
  • Improvisation
    • Minor 12-bar blues in C, F and Bb while using blues, Dorian & Hm scales in RH
  • Harmonic minor
    • Scales with two hands in all keys
    • Harmonising Hm1 in C

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.

Bass day (1h)

  • II — V — I — IVs with 7th chords (all inversions and all keys)

Observations

It may look like I’m cutting on my bass practice, but it’s not true — well, not entirely, lol — I just got the enormous amount of jazz piano books and I’m so excited to update my routine that I allow myself to bail on bass a little bit 😆 But iI promise it’s temporary!