Jazz Guitar Lesson: Arpeggios, scales & chords

A lesson designed for beginning/intermediate players that explores improvising using chords, chord tones, and scale tones

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Music

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• Jazz
• guitar
• lesson
• chords
• scales
• arpeggios

[chajafilas]

gracias loco!

[illdoitagain]

órale ese

[bartgen27]

hey is the scale your refering to the C major scale and its 7 tones. And are you using that one scale for every chord in the progression or do you change the scale when you change the chords.

[illdoitagain]

I'm using the C maj scale for each chord. I'm also using each chord's arpeggio. but you can just use the C maj scale if you want. it will work fine

[wartarot]

Playing a m7 arp a whole step up from the root of a IIm7 gives the tensions 9, 11, 13 and root of the IIm7.

Also melodic minor scale(major scale with a flat 3). Start this a half step up from the root of the V7 chord is the same as playing the altered scale over the V7.

Melodic minor can also be played starting on the fifth of a dom7 chord other than the V7. This is the same as playing a mixo #4/lydian b7 over the dom7.

[guusben]

You are a good teacher, clear explanations and not too quickly delivered so everybody can follow what you're on about. Hopefully you'll find a way to avoid the background noise and improve the lighting of your next video. Thanks for a useful lesson :-)

[AuSableBrownie]

Very nice little lesson. Not too complicate, but with some practice and fooling around some lovely results on some basic early jazz work. Thanks.

[strings191]

instead of saying 9 7  1 1 tell me the notes.

[mixermantim]

thanks for the lesson.

[donottawaguitar]

cool

[redskin133]

thanks, you got to the whole debate over chord tones verses scale theory by using both together to create nice lines

[stratcatavarious]

very nice thank you

[babbersabber]

@bartgen27 it's better you play on the II Dorian, V you play mixolydian and I you play major. You change the scale when you change the chord. But you can only C major or C Blues or you play the whole time arpeggios.

[8xngc]

is there a book that you are pulling the arpeggio charts from? do you recommend it?

[GameLevelEditor]

Good starter lesson for exploration of getting a jazz tone happening.

A bit drawn out but heck little to complain about when something is being shared could be life changing as aspiring to be a jazz guitarist.

[lection]

very nice lessons SR!! i like the paper notes in the background" so cool n well noticeable