Once you’re ready to get more technical with your playing, it’s time to start looking at jazz guitar arpeggios. Being able to use your arpeggio shapes is a big part of playing better solos. Here’s why: But jazz guitar arpeggios are also tricky to get started with. You see, for most instruments arpeggios are a … Read more
Minor 7b5 arpeggios are an important pattern for jazz guitar. There’s just no way around it. And they’re also the pattern a lot of my students love to hate. These patterns are a little awkward at first, and don’t flow as easily as the minor 7 arpeggios did. And to rub some salt in the … Read more
Minor 7 Arpeggios for Jazz Guitar Making the changes is an important part of learning to play better solos in jazz guitar. And your minor 7 arpeggios are an essential piece of “making the changes.” I remember spending a lot of time learning these arpeggio patterns early on in college. Especially as I was working … Read more
Dominant 7 Arpeggios for Jazz Guitar Sometimes I feel like I spent half of my time in college working on dominant 7th arpeggios. Learning how to play them. How to apply them to ii V I progressions. How to alter them and create “outside” harmonies. There’s a good reason for this… dominant 7 arpeggios are … Read more
My first real experience dealing with major 7 arpeggios for guitar was in a college jazz improvisation class. While the jazz guitar teacher I had worked with through high school was great, he just didn’t think about playing solos that way… Now don’t get me wrong, he could absolutely play arpeggios. He just seemed to … Read more