Practice

hand independence

Practice independence between hands where the left and right hands each take turns playing the more dynamic melody.

• exercise: 90bpm eighth, triplets then sixteenth notes in the left hand and quarter notes in the right

Sustaining root while doing scales

When doing a C minor scale, we can sustain the tonic throughout to make it sound more linked.

• exercise: 90bpm c minor scale to the 5th while sustaining tonic

All major / minor / 7th chords in all

Try and do them all triads without using the pinky

Doing chords (non octave) with left hand

Spread Voicing Left hand bass arpeggio

Practice a bass pattern where we hit the tonic-fifth-extended 3rd (ie. above the octave)

• https://youtu.be/h-xxvOWSgfk?t=1142

Spread voicing means to play the same notes, but do it over more than an octave.

Chord transitions

Work on arpeggiating between 2/3/4 chords

• https://youtu.be/YzFQFfvbIAw?t=603

Runs

Practice runs like Levon intro, rocket man F/A run Practice knowing where all corresponding chords to a given I or vi are

Lead in left hand

Get better at hammering chords in the right hand, and a lead in the left, a la Heros and Villains, Death on Two Legs

Chord clusters

Target BPM: 40

• I-IV movement in all inversions
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• I-V movement in all inversions
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• I-V-I-IV movement in all inversions
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• vi-ii-iii movement in all inversions
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• vi-ii-III movement in all inversions
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• vi-ii-iii movement in all inversions
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b

Chord Factors

• 6th
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• maj7th
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• 7th
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• 9th
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• 11th
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b
• 13th
  • 1-b
  • 3-b
  • 5-b

Ornaments

Grace notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPSMuGgjL3U