arpeggios
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Dorian Mode Tutorial - Theory, Shapes, Chords, Scales, Arpeggios & Licks
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/07/2020
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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This blog post contains free cheat sheets (infographics) for guitar players about the Dorian mode. You will find useful information on how to play chords, arpeggios and minor licks directly related to this minor scale.
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5 Easy Jazz Blues Arpeggio Studies For Guitar
- By Stef Ramin
- On 06/26/2019
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
- 2 comments
This lesson contains five free guitar studies for beginners that outline the use of arpeggios over a Bb jazz blues progression. There are different kinds of jazz blues progressions. The one that is used in this eBook is built with a secondary dominant (VI7), a passing diminished (#IVdim7) and a turnaround (I7, VI7, iim7, V7).
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Major 7 Arpeggio - Free Guitar Cheat Sheets
- By Stef Ramin
- On 02/15/2019
- In Guitar Cheat Sheets, Methods, eBooks, Posters
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You will find here a free cheet sheat about major 7 arpeggios. This quick guitar lesson provides a brief description of major 7 arpeggios including neck diagrams and formula charts. This document is available in three versions : PDF (for printing), JPEG and PNG for on-line publication.
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Extended Diatonic Arpeggios - Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/27/2018
- In Infographics
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Extended areggios, Extensions, Upper-Structure of Chords, Superimposition, Secondary Arpeggios, Chords
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Extended Diatonic Arpeggios - Upper-Structure of Chords and Superimposition
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/23/2018
- In Scales & Arpeggios
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When learning how to play jazz guitar, one of the most important device to master is to play each tone of a chord in order to outline a specific progression.This is what we call arpeggios. They are great melodic tools when you want to highlight the chords you are soloing over.
This article is focused on diatonic seventh arpeggios and their extensions. In a first time, before applying these extensions, it is recommended to have a very strong knowledge of the triads, both the chords and the arpeggios.
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Major and Major 6th Arpeggios with Chords - Guitar Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 10/21/2018
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Major 6 and minor 6 arpeggio shapes with chord diagrams.
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Arpeggio Practice - Seventh Chords - 4 Essential Exercises
- By Stef Ramin
- On 09/09/2018
- 1 comments
Arpeggios are essential musical tools that allow you to build pure and beautiful lines while highlighting the harmony. When playing over chord changes, using arpeggios is the most efficient way to connect these chords together.This lesson provides four arpeggio exercises with tabs, standard notation and diagrams that will help improve your guitar skills and your theoretical knowledge.
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Guitar Arpeggio Shapes Infographic
- By Stef Ramin
- On 04/18/2018
- In Infographics
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This guitar infographic takes the main arpeggio shapes namely ,minor 7, major 7, dominant 7, half-diminished and diminished 7.
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Why Jazz Guitarists Should Study The CAGED Method
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/24/2017
- In Guest Posts
- 2 comments
When I first joined my high school jazz band, it was a humbling experience. I knew my major scales and modes, but only with the roots on the E and/or A string. This worked fine for playing pop music, but the way jazz progressions were always changing chords with each measure, my hands were constantly getting lost.If I was playing a C major line in eighth position, how did I switch to a Bb mixolydian scale without jumping my hand up or down and making the improvisational idea totally disjointed ? I could never understand how jazz guitarists could keep their ideas going as the chords changed from moment to moment. And how did players like Joe Pass know how to run an improvised line right into a chord voicing? Additionally, as I progressed to the higher registers of the guitar, I could never tell where I was in the scale anymore. It seemed impossible!
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The Blues Arpeggio - How To Mix Major And Minor Triads
- By Stef Ramin
- On 11/17/2017
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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What's the Blues Arpeggio ?Traditionally, when a student learns to improvise over a jazz, blues tune, he taught pentatonic scales, major triads or dominant 7th arpeggios, but there is something missing to get this specific and exciting jazz-blues sound, "The Blues Arpeggio". This is a very interesting and important device to use over this musical genre. It is a mix of a major triad and a minor triad, it contains both major and minor thirds, representing one of the most vital elements of the blues. In this jazz guitar lesson we will see how to build the blues arpeggio, how to practice it and how to play it on a blues.
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Triad Arpeggios - Guitar Lesson For Beginners
- By Stef Ramin
- On 08/25/2017
- 2 comments
Arpeggios are surely the most important devices to master when you want to start improvising. Every jazz players use arpeggios in their improvisations. Great guitarists, all kinds of styles use arpeggios : John Scofield, Kurt Rosewinkel, Birelli Lagrene, Django Reinhardt, and many more.Arpeggios are played extensively because they use only the notes found in a single chord. Therefore, they create a more harmonized sound when played with their corresponding chord. Arpeggios are very helpful to easily outline the chord changes.
This guitar lesson is focused on the most basic form of arpeggios made out of three notes called "triad arpeggios".
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Superimposed Diatonic Arpeggios - Guitar Lesson With Tabs
- By Stef Ramin
- On 08/21/2017
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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Arpeggios are very helpful devices to easily outline the chord changes especially in tunes with fast tempos as bebop tunes for examples.
The basic use of arpeggios is to play them over their related chord, for example play a Gm7 arpeggio (G-Bb-D-F) over a G minor 7 chord or a C7 arpeggio (C-E-G-Bb) over a C dominant 7 chord.
Over a classic II-V-I progression in C major (Dm7-G7-Cmaj7) you will play Dm7 arp, G7 arp and Cmaj7 arp. This way you take no risks and you are sure to underline and hear correctly the harmony.
Unfortunately, this can be boring in the long run, that's why, in this article, we will see how to superimposed diatonic arpeggios to open new paths and create original and interesting jazz lines.
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How To Connect Dominant 7th Arpeggios In Blues
- By Stef Ramin
- On 12/13/2016
- 0 comments
Mastering arpeggios is inevitable for anyone who wants to improve its sense of improvisation and bring more musicality to its playing. Practicing and mastering them is a necessity for all jazz guitarists, arpeggios are great tools to improvise over chord changes and jazz standards.
