Piano day (1h)

  • Improvisation
    • Chromatic progressions (“Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players” by Dan Haerle)
      • Mixolydian scales over dominant 7th chords in shells in all keys
      • Dorian scales over minor 7th chords in shells in all keys
    • Melodies (reading a couple of examples from book II of “Jazz Improvisation”)
      • Repetition
      • Transposition
      • Exercise 1: dominant run around the cycle of 4ths
      • Exercise 2: Dorian run around the cycle of 4ths
      • Motive inversion
    • Recap Lydian pentatonic & minor blues scale in all keys

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Extensions
    • Recap m6 / m9 / m7 / 5 / 4 pattern (all keys, over m7 chords)
    • Recap M6 / M9 / 5 / 4 pattern (all keys)
    • Minor and major 6ths in all positions (8vb and 8va), sting above + below + slide down on the same string, returning to root over 5, in all keys
  • Applying extensions / transposition fluency
    • 6ths-based lick over American Boy by Kanye West in E, C & F