Welcome to our community Manuel!
I think it’s a great idea to document your practice and progress with tumblr and post updates here in the forum.
You can find PDF practice planners here for inspiration. There will be more PDF plans coming shortly for the other courses on the site.
We can follow the plans exactly, or just use them as a rough outline and devise with our own exercises and drills.
If I can help you with anything just let me know.
Cheers!
H
Thanks Hayden. I am totally using your practice plans, actually pretty much to a T. I do often spend way more time than the recommended 5 minutes just because I am exploring things.
That’s great Manuel.
The 5 minutes is just a suggested time so feel free to do what works best for you.
The most important thing is that we visit different theory areas in 1 sitting, and not just spend the whole time on 1 exercise. That’s what I was told by many teachers and musicians… “break our practice time into small chunks so we can cover lots of different topics”.
Have fun exploring the lessons and theory 
OH i love this song cant stop hearing it … my transcription is going for it
and for seeing Michel in action
Very beautiful arrangement. Kawai mp7 ? Jealous Pierre. I hope to be able to play the major and minor 251ś within the next few months. In Ecuador for the month at a beach house. Study lessons on rootless 251 each day but no keyboard to play on. Visualize keyboard in my mind and how each chord is played. I hope this helps me
Thanks for posting.
Dr. Dean
Thanks for sharing, Pierre. I’ve always enjoyed Petrucciani’s playing, but I don’t recall this particular song. Very nice.
For your father. Like the practice exercises 251.
Oh it was so long ago … thks ! yes it was done with the kawai mp7
I have lost my plan … but stilll on the journey
those Colors from Petrucciani haunting me too much
So i lost myself 
in this song … transcribing as much as i can …now 1 month on it
hopefully soon be able to record some part
arg … 
no more plan of practice for a long period now …
I really need to calm me down 
and play less new songs 
my plan seems not adapted to me i have to find another way
So being more realistic:
big lacks are time placing so i have to incorporate exercice for it everyday even few minutes
second goal of the month will be to play target notes in my improvisation , for the moment playing them is not enough focused and enclosure is not fluent at all
third and last will be to work on motivic development
AND incorporate this in my old songs
now i have to find specific exercice for each goal
Wish you good luck ! 
Nice goals Pierre.
For time placing, check out Tuomo’s lesson on “how to practice time”:
Perhaps spend 15 minutes per day following those exercises.
I’m also guilty on focusing on too many tunes and moving on too quickly.
When working on my improvisation, I now spend more time on a smaller number of tunes and I find this to be effective.
I think that listening to jazz blues recordings is great for these goals. Particularly for working on motivic development. Each 12 bar chorus gives us the opportunity to create a new motif, and develop it for the whole 12 bars.
After playing many jazz standards, I realised I hadn’t spent enough time listening to the blues… which is where it all began!
Good luck and enjoy practicing this stuff 
thks a lot for your guidance @Hayden and support @Guillaume!
will try to record myself again
combine lightly things thinking about scales and timing , comping chords and timing and some exercices on 16th with claping i have learn for the getting funky bass line
and yes the blues will be the begining for target note and the motivic development thks !
I disconnect from my practice log this summer for improving my bass technic … but thats another story
After discovering funky tango de luis Salinas i cant resist playing something around
so i create a loop with drums recorded a bass line and with my electric piano jam on it … even find a pro guitar player to jam it with me … it is done on the thumb but have really fun to do it
here it is … hear this guitar playing … lovely lines
in btw a good exercice to improve the rootless minor 251
PS if someone want to jam with the back track and the chords ; just ask , i will share it with pleasure… for waiting the funk teacher it is a cool song …
Really nice, Pierre. It’s interesting how you used the Salinas tune as a jumping off point.
After trying to have routine with my others instruments
hard to combine both for the moment
Pannonica is one i will try to add to my repertoire
working diminished harmony : aware this will need time , so still playing around … and discussing around it seems to help me going inside a bit … thanks Tuomo
still working around the scale : this could be an awesome lesson @Hayden @Tuomo @Jovino how to play around a scale …
two difficulties comes around even when the scale is well known
for diminished scales the symetry of the scale helps us adding the moving in minor third of whatever pattern that fit
Hi Pierre 
I try not to think purely in terms of scales when improvising.
Scales can certainly play a role in improvisation, but I try to pay more attention to voice leading chord tones, adding interesting approach patterns and enclosures, and using chromaticism. I cover these concepts in my course on the jazz blues progression.
Jovino and Tuomo both created lessons on deriving triads from scales and using these as the source of melodic creativity:
Definitely check those lessons out.
For fluidity and control, my biggest recommendation would be to master the scale at slow tempos with a metronome, and then very gradually increase the tempo. Always playing along with the metronome.
It takes a lot of patience but that would be my #1 exercise for improving fluidity when playing scales.
Hope this helps!
Still thinking about my practice plan for this new year i read this with interest
Thanks Pierre.
I’ve pretty much come to same conclusion. Practicing seems to have gotten all over the place. If you apply all of the areas that you should practice regularly focusing on a specific tune, you’ll get what you need. With another tune, you’ll be adding to your skill set. It’s still a lot of work, but at least there’s music at the end.
We’ll see how that goes.