Scale studies
- All melodic minor scales in classical form (with descent over natural minor)
Technique
- Independence
- 7-3-5 shells over 10ths
- Shells over descending arpeggios
- Bothe combined
- Cycling over Always on my Mind progression
Tag: melodic minor
Practice session (2h)
Scale studies
- All Melodic minor scales with proper descent over natural minor
Left hand
- Descending major arpeggios (all keys)
- LH only
- Added shells in RH
- Independence workout
- ii—V—I’s (skill 45 from Jazz Piano Voicing Skills) w/ 10th & octave blocks: C thru G
Practice session: melodic minor and friends
Scale studies
- All Melodic minor scales with proper descent over natural minor
- New scale dissection over moving shells in groups of 3: CMm, FMm — sheet music soon 🤖
- Arpeggiated
- Plain
- With rhythmic deviations
Left hand
- 10ths over moving inversions
- Major & minor 10ths recap (all keys)
- Minor 10ths + 6ths (all keys)
Practice session: continuing with melodic minor studies + diving into Locrian
Sounds like I’m getting a taste for dissonances, huh? 🥴
Scale studies
- All Melodic minor scales with proper descent over natural minor (told you it’s a classical week 😄)
- G# Locrian scale dissection over moving degrees in groups of 3 — sheet music soon 🤖
- G# Aeolian dissection over moving root arpeggio in groups of 3
- C Aeolian dissection over moving root arpeggio in groups of 3, then 2
Session timing: 1h 40m
Practice session: search for the melodic minor DNA
Scale studies
- All Melodic minor scales
- Imrpov in Mm / finding DNA
- D Dorian b2 (Mm mode #2): dissection in groups of 3 over harmonised scale — sheet music soon 🤖
- A Dorian b2 (A normal Dorian in descending motion) over harmonised scale
Left hand
- Descending 10ths over i∆ — ii — III∆+5 in melodic minor
Observations
Yes, ascending melodic minor is an extremely dissonant scale. I mean, it’s in the nature of it: it’s literally major and minor sewn together, how can it not be dissonant! But, as always, somewhere in the middle of all this harshness, there’s an undulating beauty, its DNA, so magnificent and fragile that it compensates all the clashing around it. I just have to find it 🤓
Session timing: 2h
Black Hole Piano 