§ Jazz Piano Fundamentals Book
§ altered dominants
§ Altered scale
§ minor 2 5 1 and blues scales
- unit 7: BLUES!
- minor ii V i scale : played over harmonic minor, pick every alternate note.
- improvising over minor ii V i . Use blues scale.
- Use harmonic minor for ii and V, and use melodic minor for i chord (recall in jazz, melodic minor is only for ascending, i.e. major + lowered 3rd).
- Modal blues : phrygian plus minor pentatonic.
§ Bepop & improvising with closed position voicings
- Book 2
- Book 2, Unit 8 - Closed Position Voicings Basics, exercise for bepop scale chords that alternates between major 6th and dim7 by Jeremy Siskind Alternate between tonic 6th and diminished seventh chords. use closed position voicings. How to harmonize bebop scale. Play inversions of major 6th and diminished 7th chords.
- Book 2, Unit 8, closed poisition voicing basics
- Book 2, Unit 9: More Closed Position Voicings
- Jazz Fundamentals, volume 2, unit 10: improvising with closed position voicings
- Jazz Fundamentals Volume 2, Unit 10: drop 2 voicings
- Jazz Fundamentals Volume 2, Unit 10: Scale Patterns for Bepop
- drop 2 voicings for "hardly" (https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzfundamentals2/unit10/)
- Use these to play nujabes (reflection eternal, feather, lady brown)
§ ballads
- example ballad: misty
- ballad basics (https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzfundamentals2/unit10/)
§ solo piano devices: left hand shuttle