From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
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Practicing D minor, G7, C major bop scales
From the course: Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation
Practicing D minor, G7, C major bop scales
- Let's do a quick pass here practicing on our little funk track, on these new bop scales. I'm just going to do an example on our D minor seven of the different ways that we can have some fun with this as we practice and make it an improvisational exercise instead of just up and down the keyboard. So, I'm going to start it out and I'll kind of talk about what I'm doing as I go. (tempo music) if you remember, from our comping lessons, when we got to the minor cord, we're starting out, we had a thing with our triads that we've been working with, where you start out with this and then you move it up a whole step and back down and create yourself a little melody. And you can do that, I can sit there all day practically doing that kind of thing. Little chromatic alterations and so forth, so maybe as you're practicing, you get yourself in the groove with this kind of thing. Lets play it really slow. Again, I'm playing a little piece of the scale and then I'm making a little something out of…
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