I'm loving Jamey Aebersold's improvisation exercises, where you play along to a backing track, holding a whole or half note chord loosely with the left hand while concentrating especially on playing improvised melodies with the right.
You play seven "exercises" or portions of a scale with the right hand, while the left is just harmonizing loosely:
(1) first 5 notes of scale,
(2) full scale to the 9th,
(3) root, 3rd, 5th,
(4) root, 3rd, 5th, 7th,
(5) root, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th,
(6) same as #5 ascending/scale descending,
(7) opposite of #6.
My question is this: what should the fingering be for the right hand? For #1, #2, and #3 it's simple enough, but things don't happen as naturally with the rest (#4, #5, #6, #7).
I strive to practice scales with strict discipline on correct fingering especially before I try the exercies I'm describing here, but that fingering doesn't fit.
What do you do? Do you just let the fingers fall where they will? Please suggest away.
Thanks,
-Davi