From the course: Jazz Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
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Practicing the F7 bop scale as jazz, part 2
From the course: Jazz Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Practicing the F7 bop scale as jazz, part 2
- So the next thing we're going to do, let's play this. We're going to put up our first play along track. This first play along track, you want to put up the F7 dominant modal track. Which means it's just a track that's going to play you a F7 baseline for four and a half or five minutes. It's great for working out on this kind of thing. It has a baseline under it, it has a live drummer. So this way we can start to get our feet wet playing with a rhythm section. And we're basically just going to do the same thing that we already did. For me, it's kind of instinctive to want to try to lay back against the beat. To really put the notes behind the beat. And you'll probably hear that as we go. But let's just give you a taste of what this is like. You'll hear one, two, one, two, three, four on a high hat, the little symbol set on the left. And then the time kicks in. So this is how we would do it. (symbols) (piano) So there's are F7 bop scale over the rhythm section. You probably notice…
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