Piano day (1h 40m)

Improvisation
- Chromatic progressions
  - Mixolydian over dominant, 3-7-9 shells, all keys
  - Dorian over minor, same
Modal studies
- Harmonising Lydian mode
  - All keys, using 7-3-5 shells in RH and 1-5, 1-6 pattern in LH
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

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

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)

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-

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!