Tag: voicings

Piano day (1h 30m)

  • Voicing skills
    • Recap shell voicings (exercises from “Jazz Piano Voicing Skills”)
      • Dominant sus 4 in 4-7-9
      • Dominant sus 4 in 7-9-4-6
  • Improvisation
    • Cycling dominant 7 chords + Mixolydian scales
      • RH patterns: diatonic, 1-7-1-4-1-3-4, 1-7-1-3-5-1-4
    • Cycling minor to dominant transition + Dorian & Mixo scales
    • Cycling dominant to major 7 transition + Mixo scale

Piano day (1h 40m)

  • Dominant chords in chromatic progression in 3-7-9 voicings (Lesson 13 from “Jazz Piano Improvisation for Keyboard Players”)
  • Blues progressions (Lesson 11 from the same book)
    • I — IV — V in Bb
    • 12-bar major blues in Bb
    • Only LH patterns this time
  • II — V — Is in major and parallel minor with no pauses in 3-7-9 / 3-7-5 around the circle of 5ths (my favourite exercise so far)

Piano day (1h 30m)

  • Improvisation (Dan Haerle — Jazz Improvisation for Keyboard Players)
    • Lessons 3—4
    • Voicing chords with LH (3-7-9, 5-7-9, 6-7-9, etc.)
    • Improv over progression with diminished chords (ex. 2)
    • Recap II — V — I improv in 4 keys
  • Jazz voicings
    • II — V — I in major + parallel minor