Warmup suggestion

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Thanks for sharing Marc. That’s a very thorough warm up routine!

It’s great that you are taking a line like this and transposing it around the piano.

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The MinorMajor line over the 1 chord is particularly useful… take this around all 12 keys.

Adding the major 7th in your lines over minor chords is such a great sound. Play around with this in all keys. I am planning a dedicated lesson on this (mode #1 of the melodic minor scale) and will demonstrate a number of important lines and patterns. This will be ready in the next few weeks.

Here is the original lesson on the line Marc referred to if anyone else is interested: https://www.pianogroove.com/chet-baker-minor-251-line/

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Yes…
Infact, as I’m very bad at Harmony theory, I didn’t think anything but practising things in thirds or sixth for flexibility of fingers or wrist )))
In classical, it’s very often used

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Of course, that would be so cool if you could write also studies (various keys) on each technical lessons including nice turnarounds etc… a kind of nice small book as Oscar Peterson did but, more technical :wink:

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for extensions 5421-135
Or, using a well known patern as

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Yes I think this is a great idea. It would be mostly formulas with a notation example in 1 key.

Different options for creating: Intros, Outros & Turnarounds.

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Just to help chord progression learning on left hand :wink:

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Awesome thanks for sharing Marc.

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brahms-pieces-piano-73-min.pdf (1.6 MB)

of course, it could be possible to transpose, to add famous #5 or whatever )))
nb : it can be beautiful if well played

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Looks interesting Marc!

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I love the left-hand pattern with the rootless voicings:

  • ii-9 with the b3, b7, and 9

moving to…

  • V13 with the b7, M3, and 13.

It’s just 1 note that is changing from the ii-9 to the V13 chord - the index finger falls by a half step (the b7 of the ii-9 chord falling to the M3 of the V13 chord). The other notes remain the same… Simple but effective!

That in itself is a great exercise to take around all 12 keys.

I just did it and it was a nice warm up for my day’s practice - for my left-hand at least!

What book is this from @marc421812?

As for the right hand…

I wish I could analyse/play it as effortlessly as the underlying harmony… I need to work on my sight reading a little more :face_with_monocle:

This is a really nice study Marc… I’d to incorporate this into a “5-minute masterclass” lessons.

Perhaps starting with the left hand through all 12 keys, and then adding a simple right-hand line that works over any ii-V progression.

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Nahre Sol is a very interesting woman, a good composer.
I put only an extract as she sells her music


she wrote very good exercices based on chopin studies mixted with progressions you use.
of course… all these exercices are to be played really fast… really insane speed…
try to see her on instagram
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Brilliant thanks for sharing the link.

Absolutely, sharing the extract like that is perfect Marc. It gives our students a taste of the material and then with the link we can go and find out more and buy the studies if they are of interest.

I just looked at her shop here: https://www.nahresol.com/shop-1/ - the ‘trill study’ looks interesting. That’s an area I’ve been wanting to work on for my solo jazz piano performance.

Going back to the progression:

I did a little search on her website and found this video where she demonstrates this pattern:

Love it!

It provides a great ‘bridge’ between virtuosic right hand melodies, and a staple jazz chord progression (ii-7 to V13).

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and a bridge beetwen classical theory and jazz theory :wink:

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Yes absolutely!


Today I’m working on the course practice guide lesson for our course on Extended Chords & Voicings.

This left hand sequence is perfect for exercise 3 where the goal is to help the student identify and visualise upper extensions over major, minor, and dominant chords.

Here it is in my rough notes:

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The exercise will be similar to the extract above but without the stride.

So the left-hand will play the root, or R-5, and the right-hand plays:

  • ii-7: b3 - b7 - 9

  • V13: b7 - M3 - 13

  • Imaj9: M3 - M7 - 9

Exactly what I was looking for.

The progression also has the extension on top of the right-hand voicing for easy visualisation. It’s perfect.

Cheers!

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Exercices de voicings jazz_Les progressions II-V-I et turnaround.pdf (253.6 KB)

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Wonderful resource Marc :+1:

There’s some beautiful voicings in there and it’s all laid out very clearly.

I’m sure our other French students will like the solfège … @pierre and @loffredo1630087

I’ve always been intrigued with the french solfège system. Someone tried to explain it to me once, but I need to read into it more to fully understand.

Cheers, and happy new year to you @marc421812 !

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French studies in 75-80’ was something awfull ))
a kind of hard BDSM practice… )))))
One of these day’s I’ll explain it

Have a nice 31 :wink:

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:smile: I hear that many students are ‘traumatised’ from classical piano study.

Let’s all just enjoy the freedom and creativity of jazz piano!

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