From the course: Jazz Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Practicing approach pattern 1, part 1

Practicing approach pattern 1, part 1

From the course: Jazz Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Practicing approach pattern 1, part 1

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- Let's take a look at how we can get these approach patterns, this first approach pattern under our fingers. And we're going to make it easy. We're going to put a little bit of space in between these. You need to be able to approach each degree of the chord, each tone in the chord. So we want to make target notes out of F, A, C, and E flat. And the reason we're using, again, using chord tones as our target notes is because once you land on the target note on a chord tone on the beat, you're free to do, you know your bop scale or wherever you want to go from there. But you start out with a chord tone on the beat. So by way of practicing these, let's start out by approaching the root and the fifth of the F7 chord. So we're talking about F and C. And the fingering for this is pretty simple. This is typical jazz fingering. And we're going to want to get eventually to where we can find fingerings for these on the fly. 'Cause you don't know where you're going to be coming from and where…

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