extensions

In this guitar lesson with PDF and Youtube Short, you'll learn how to extend diatonic seventh arpeggios with the 9th, 11th and 13th.

Check this link to get the PDF transcription.

This brief guitar theory lesson explains what is a dominant 7 chord and its possible extensions (natural and altered) thanks to a printable infographic containing two neck diagrams.

In this theory lesson we will see how to add natural and altered extensions to 7th chords. The aim being to bring new colors and so to embellish your chord progressions. This concept is a very important device for composing, chordal accompaniment and chord-melody arrangements.

Extended areggios, Extensions, Upper-Structure of Chords, Superimposition, Secondary Arpeggios, Chords

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 lesson is focused on diatonic seventh arpeggios and their extensions.