- Scale studies / piano catch-up / vocabulary
- Minor blues scale starting with low b7 in all keys
- Major blues scale (same)
- Lydian pentatonic (same)
- Walking bass
- Applying pentatonics (major & minor blues for 7 & m7 chords respectively, Lyd pentatonic for maj7) to a jazz standard
- When not able to find passing chord scale quick enough, playing a 2nd inversion (from root down, easy, right?)
- “Scale permutations” — i. e. starting on minor blues on b7 or playing from 5th down when connecting chords
- Reading melodies
- A Night In Tunisia (several times, no click)
Tag: piano catch-up
Bass day (1h)
- Soloing
- Free improv (focus on avoiding roots) over Worth The Wait
- Improv + piano catch-up
- Minor blues scale in all keys around the neck over dominant chords around the cycle of 4ths
- Major 7th chords around the cycle of 4ths in all inversions, permutation used: 1-3-7-5
Bass day (1h)
- Major blues scale “inversions” (short recap)
- Motown bass lines (reading)
Bass day (1h 30m)
- Walking bass / chord tones
- 1-* & 3-* permutations of root inversion & 1st inversion (harmonising C Mixolydian)
- Applying over All of Me in G-
- Piano routine sync
- Minor blues scale “inversions” (starting on 1 and running octave up, b3 and up to b3 octave above, same from 4, from #4, etc.) — in all keys cycling in 4ths
- Chords
- Triads recap
- 7th chords 1st inversion w/o 5th