The Most Important Improv Exercise for Jazz Piano

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LESSON SUMMARY
In this lesson, you're going to learn:
- The Most Important Chord Progression for Jazz Piano Improv
- A Beginner Left Hand Accompaniment
- An Intermediate Left Hand Accompaniment
- 3 Essential Scales for Improv
- Connecting Scale Exercise for Beginners
- Connecting Scale Exercise for Intermediate & Advanced Players
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Jonny May

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00:36 Connecting scales exercise 00:50 Turnaround progression 01:23 Beginner: chord shell approach 02:45 Play with backing track 03:05 Intermediate: rootless voicings 04:28 Play with backing track 04:46 Tip: quick 5-1 05:10 3 essential scales 05:36 Scale 1: C Major 06:09 Scale 2: C# diminished 07:30 Scale 3: B diminished 08:32 Beginner: connecting scales 10:48 Play with backing track 11:05 Creating melody lines 12:05 Play with backing track 12:47 Intermediate: connecting scales 15:10 Ideal tempo 15:33 Play with backing track 15:37 Creating melody lines 16:41 Play with backing track 17:18 Conclusion

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Great video Johnny. I like to think of the c#dim scale as the A half diminished scale and the B diminished scale here as the G half diminished scale. This is easier to me as they are the same letter as the chord but your way is a cool way as they are both right next to the door key. Very cool concept. Just to clarify for the watchers, your c# scale here is a whole diminished scale and your B scale is a whole diminished scale. Interesting point about diminished scales is while most scales have 5, 6 or 7 notes, diminished scales have 8. Also the half diminished is called the dominant scale because it contains all notes of the dominant chord. Another interesting thing that you mentioned is every note can be involved with a minor third and thus a minor 6th as well. It has interesting relationship with the tri tone as well which makes the tt very substitutable with the same half diminished scale.

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Great lesson as always Jonny. Don't know if it's of any interest to anyone, but I prefer to think of playing the diminished scale that starts a semitone above the root, so over A7 that would be Bb diminished. Same as C# diminished, obviously. For me this ties in better with the altered scale, which is effectively a melodic minor ascending that starts a semitone above the root. So over A7(alt) you can play Bb diminished or Bb melodic minor ascending. Only difference is the dim scale has an E and F#, whereas the altered scale has an F natural. If you're swapping between the two to create different tensions, this difference is interesting to focus on.

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A fantastic lesson. Jonny! How about calling those second and third scales "octatonic" for us, and offering us some fingerings for multiple rising and descending octave practice? Thank you so much! Your friend, Truman Bullard.

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