- Improvisation
- Chromatic progressions
- Mixolydian over dominant, 3-7-9 shells, all keys
- Dorian over minor, same
- Chromatic progressions
- Modal studies
- Harmonising Lydian mode
- All keys, using 7-3-5 shells in RH and 1-5, 1-6 pattern in LH
- Harmonising Lydian mode
- 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
- Airegin in A-
Tag: soloing
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
Very quick bass day (1h)
- Improv over a jazz standard in Nashville notation focusing on chromatic passing tones and chord tones
- Extended arpeggios (soloing exercise from Scott’s seminar) — 7 5 3 (8vb) — 1 3 5 7 — 1 3 (8va)
- Soloing: up and down the arpeggios (over a standard in normal notation)
Bass day (1h 20m)
- Chord tones (Phil Mann): major triads in all inversions around the cycle of 4ths while saying out loud the note names (50bpm—74bpm)
- Walking bass lines (Scott): static chord vocabulary + recap ii – V — I minor & major patterns over Autumn Leaves in G-
- Short soloing over Autumn Leaves also in G-
Bass day (1h 30m)
- Major triads in all inversions around the cycle of 4ths, with click at 50bpm (Phil Mann’s Chord Tones course)
- Major & minor ii — V — I lines over Autumn Leaves in G-, all patterns used
- Soloing in G- over Autumn Leaves using chromatics — watch the tendencies of getting back to minor pentatonic box and prevent this from happening!