BookatlasPiano Rabbit Hole: Improvisation Theory & Practice
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55.5The first technical problem: jumping

Your LH has to travel:

low bass register

→ middle chord

→ low register

→ middle chord.

Do not stare only at your left hand.

Use keyboard geography.

Feel where:

F

C

B♭

sit.