a.TECHNIQUE (25 mins)

- Modes and scales

-Arpeggios

-Hanon Exercises
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-Thumb crossover agility exercise

-Hand independence exercise (12 bar blues,different rhythm scales,contradicting scales)

1b. CLASSICAL PIECE FOR TECHNIQUE (30 mins)


2. Theory (30 mins)

-Chord progressions in various keys

-Chord voicings

-Acconpaniment styles (stride,block arpeggios)

-Chord types and extensions

-Comping style


3. Jazz Vocabulary (30 mins)

- 2 5 1 Licks (sheet music)

-Transcription of licks from jazz standards



4. Tune Learning (45 mins )

New tune (Pick from tunes list. Do one of the following to that tune each day, until you have a good grasp on the tune): (
- Comp (2-handed)
- Melody with right hand and comp with left
- Melody with right hand and bass with left
- Listen and play along with a classic recording of the tune


5. Transcription of Jazz standards (1 hour )


Transcribe (pick a recording of one of the following artists):
- Oscar Peterson
- McCoy Tyner
- Herbie Hancock
- Keith Jarrett
- Bud Powell
- Charlie Parker
- Cannonball Adderly
- Stan Getz
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis
Focus on the following aspects as you’re transcribing:
- Comping
- Melody
- Vocabulary
- Time feel / swing



6. Improvisation solo (30 mins)


- Solo within octave of random note

-Solo with one motif







TUNE LIST

1.Jazz standards

St. Thomas

Satin doll

On Green Dolphin Street

*Autumn Leaves*

Misty

*Blue Bossa*
2.Christmas

Silent Night

Away in a Manger

The Christmas Song

Have yourself a merry Christmas

O Christmas tree



_TO_DO_LIST


1.Reharm Intro and practise a Pre-Intro improv for Away in a manger


3. Learn to play in Ab Major

4. Learn Bach musette in D major

5. Learn The Christmas song

7. Learn Silent Night

8.Have yourself a merry Christmas

9. Learn Satin Doll

10. Learn 2-5-1 licks

11. Listen to Jazz pianists and Big Band

12. Practise solo on beats 2 and 4