My Lesson Plans
COURSE
Date:
Cherie Chooljian Due 5-4-25
Lesson Plan:
TOPIC #1 – Bud Powell Solo
Goal: Develop more of a swing feel over Bud Powell’s solo.
Step #1 – Continue to practice bud powell’s solo with a metronome triplet subdivision. Listen to your solo and try to hear where it’s not swinging.
TOPIC #2 – Solo Piano Nobody Else But Me
Goal: Develop better time and swing feel.
Step #2 Leave Space and more short comps and harmonization through the arrangement.
Step #3 – Say doo – da- lay over and over while playing the melody in your RH. Then try to comp while saying this. Then stop saying it. Film all steps for me.
TOPIC #3 – Improvisation Logic over Standard
Goal: Develop a sense of form and space while soloing with motivic development.
Step #4 – Choose one 2–3 note motif and build your first 8 bars around it and think melodically.
Step #5 – Then do the same thing but think rhythmically.
Step #6 – Try to add more LH support now if available. LH to rootless voicings or shells, LH 1&7. Add comping more balanced between your improv phrases.