Technicality:

- Scales (fingering, hand placement)

- Beringer
- trompeter exercise
- over-under
- Bach (gigue, minuet, prelude in A-)
Theory:
- Major and all the modes (to diminished)
- Triads
- Extensions
- 2/5/1s
tritone
- comping and voice leading (drop 2)
- patterns (sheet)
Circle of Fifths
Melody
- learn tunes (attached list)
Rhythm
- big band
- bossa nova
Harmony
- transcribing
Be able to do the following on a bunch of jazz standards:
- Play melody
- comp with both hands
- play melody and comp and the same time
- play bass pattern and comp
- play melody and comp
(use girl from Ipanema example)
Transcribe:
- Oscar Peterson (bebop) (anything)
Comping and melody
Vocabulary
Time feel / swing
Melodic conversation (question/answer)
- McCoy Tyner (modal) (passion dance)
Comping and melody
Vocabulary
Harmonic development
- playing outside
Contour (question/answer)
- Herbie Hancock (Modern) (actual proof)
Comping
Colors
- playing outside
Superimposition
Speed = practice slow and speed it up when you master it
Listen to the entire recordings of:
- Bud Powell
- Charlie Parker
- Herbie Hancock
- McCoy Tyner
Dabble in:

Stan Getz
Oscar Peterson
Cannonball Adderly
John Coltrane

Find a mentor. I m very lucky to have Herbie Hancock as my mentor but it didn t happ
en accidentally.
Play with people
I can make videos describing any of these in depth. It would take a lifetime to
really teach all of it. So ask any questions you want.

Technical exercises:
- Mostly at ease
- Push towards end of each
Study theory
- If you don t know all the basics, make this your first mission. Use videos and b
ooks to grasp all of these basic concepts:
Modes (execute a 4-octave scale in each mode)
Triads (be able to play any major and minor triad in any key)
Comping (a different one each day)
- McCoy Tyner comping
- early Herbie Hancock comping
- Bill Evans comping (drop 2)
- Oscar Peterson comping
Vocabulary (alternate each day)
- Pick a jazz lick off the sheet and play in every key
- Pick one lick from a transcription, not more than 2 bars, and play in every ke
y
New tune (Pick from tunes list. Do one of the following to that tune each day, u
ntil you have a good grasp on the tune): (green dolphin
- Melody
- 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
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
- Contour (question/answer, call/response within solo)
- Harmonic development (if you re advanced)
- Superimposition (if you are advanced)
- Colors
Make sure you start slow and speed it up so you can play it comfortably eventual
ly at a fast pace
Soloing over a standard:
- 1-octave exercise
- Motivic exercise