From the course: Jazz Piano: 4 Tunes & Practice Routines
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Practicing the new pentatonics
From the course: Jazz Piano: 4 Tunes & Practice Routines
Practicing the new pentatonics
- First move to work on these pentatonics. Similar to what we've been doing, I would recommend putting a metronome on two and four. And (plays piano). Playing them like that. Throwing an approach pattern in there to, to mix it up. I kind of mixed the approach patterns up. As you can hear, some were. (plays piano) And some were. (plays piano) Like that. When you get it under your fingers, and it's kind of working for you, start putting it on the play along tracks. Maybe start with the [Audio Cuts Out] (plays piano) You notice what I was doing there, I'm just going. (plays piano) Just moving up the scale, and playing down it, note by note. (plays piano) Hear the approach pattern going by in the middle there? And I'm not just playing the scale up and down. I'm trying to use this collection of notes to makes some shapes. Everything is legal, you can't really make a mistake. As a matter of fact, the easiest way to do these is when we get to the E flat minor. Now, you really can't make a…
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