Piano Week 29: Secondary dominant fluency

Weekly Focus

Week 29 builds fluency with secondary dominants so placement becomes fast, musical, and reliable under tempo.

Success this week means you can deploy applied dominants in real songs with stable time and clean resolution.

Repertoire & Chord Map

Primary tune is Misty, with My Romance as transfer. Keep top voice singable while increasing recognition speed.

Core fluency loop:

V/ii | iim7 | V/V | V7 V/vi | vim7 | iim7 | V7

Daily map task: call out function before playing and resolve immediately into target chord tones.

Supplementary Listening & Ear Training (Required)

Link this listening directly to this week’s theme “Secondary dominant fluency” so ear work supports your keyboard work.

Weekly listening pick:

• Donna Lee — Charlie Parker

Why this track now: It highlights bebop line-to-chord alignment, which matches Week 29’s goals.

Ear tasks (10–15 min, at least 3 sessions this week):

1. Listen once without the instrument and name the key center by ear (major/minor/modal). Then verify the key at piano.
2. Find one cadence or arrival point, then play: root + shell ii-V-I (or closest functional equivalent) in that key.
3. Lift a short 4–8 bar fragment by ear, play it slowly, and record ~30s so you can compare your hearing vs. the recording.

Extra challenge (optional): transpose your lifted fragment to the weekly priority ladder when possible (F → Eb → G → Bb → C).

End-of-Week Reflection

Which applied-dominant decisions became immediate, and which still require too much thought under tempo? Carry one automatic move and one unstable move into Week 30 reharm work.