All The Left Hand positions previously seen,  can be applied on a typical progression II - V - I,  allowing us to carry out little movements in the passage from a chord to the other. We select one of the two positions from which we want to leave and we play always such positions in [...]

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This kind of  Voicings, was developped after the bebop era meanwhile the birth of the Modal Jazz, expecially by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and many others. The main feature about this kind of voicing is the use of a 4 th interval, giving a very modern sound to a such structured chord (i.e. quartal [...]

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Here’s a nice 2 bars pattern on Dominant 7#11 chord, starting from the 5th of each chord.
As seen previously, in order to practice it continuously along the Vths Cycle, there are shown two forms: descending, and ascending on the cycle by transposing by an octave a chord tone (pivoting).

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The few lines describe how to apply the Bebop Major scale on a II-7b5 - V7b9 progression. As known, these scales use some cromatism between specific diatonic (i.e. notes exclusively taken from a simple major/minor scale) tones, in order to get a simmetric scale (8 notes) that starting from a note spells clearly a [...]

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Here’s a nice 2 bars pattern on Dominant 7#11 chord, starting from the 3th of each chord.
As well, here, in order to practice it continuously along the Vths Cycle, there are shown two forms: the first descending, and the second let you ascend on the cycle by transposing by an octave a chord tone [...]

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