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How To Learn Jazz Guitar Arpeggios

10/10/2022

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Arpeggios are an important skill to develop for all jazz guitar players. 

They are a foundation of jazz language and being able to navigate different chord changes that pop up in songs. Arpeggios for jazz guitar can also be a real point of frustration as you get going. 

It can seem like there's tons you have to do. Because on the surface, you can look and find hundreds of variations on different ways to play arpeggios all over the neck. 

And it can seem really, really difficult for you to put any of this to use. All you have to do is go on reddit up and look up jazz guitar arpeggios, and you'll find a laundry list of things you're somehow supposed to get under your fingers. 

Because supposedly you have to do X, Y and Z before you're allowed to play jazz guitar.

It really doesn't have to be that bad. 

This topic of arpeggios comes up in my jazz guitar lessons all the time, especially when I'm talking to newer or self taught jazz guitar players who've been trying to learn online. 

So today, let's look at a different approach to learning your arpeggios and what you can realistically expect from practicing them and just a few different tweaks to make this a little bit more manageable for your practice.

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Minor 7 Flat 5 Arpeggio Shapes For Guitar

1/13/2022

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Minor 7b5 arpeggios are an important part of every jazz guitar players tool kit.

These arpeggio shapes let you outline minor 7b5 chords as you improvise and play melodies and and important part of the minor 2 5 1 progression.

Minor 7b5 arpeggios are based off of a minor-type finger pattern, meaning that the shape is related somehow to the minor pentatonic scale.

In fact, the minor 7th arpeggio is only two notes different than your minor pentatonic scale.


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Guitar Arpeggio Shapes - Minor 7th

9/28/2021

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Minor 7th arpeggio shapes are important for every guitar player to know.

These arpeggio shapes help you outline minor 7th chords in songs you are playing, improve your finger control, and are fun to work on.

If you already know your minor pentatonic scale shapes, this is going to be an easy skill for you to learn.

Minor 7th arpeggios go with minor 7th chords. If you're trying to improvise over an Am7 chord, you would play an Am7 arpeggio.

All you need to know is where to find an A on your fretboard, and then play the matching minor 7th arpeggio shape.

Arpeggios are like playing chords, but doing it one note at a time like with your scale patterns. You can use these arpeggio shapes to play solos, melodies, or riffs.


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How To Play Jazz Guitar

7/20/2021

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When it comes down to it, I really love playing jazz guitar. Playing jazz guitar is fun, challenging, and rewarding all at the same time.

Playing jazz gives you a way to express yourself musically, explore your creativity, and enhance your knowledge of music theory and the guitar fretboard.

I've been hooked on jazz guitar ever since I found out there was a band at school that I could play guitar in. I joined the jazz band and have been playing jazz ever since.

While at first learning jazz guitar was just a way to get to play guitar at school, it soon became a lifelong study of this amazing style of music.

When you're new to jazz, it can seem like there is a ton of learning that you need to do before you even start to play jazz guitar. (Let alone playing entire songs!)

This isn't necessarily true - Learning how to play jazz guitar requires the same basic guitar playing skills as any other style of music.

​If you take it one step at a time, you can absolutely learn how to play jazz guitar - you just have to learn to apply your guitar playing skills to this great style of music.


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Dominant 7th Arpeggio Patterns For Guitar

5/26/2021

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Arpeggio patterns are a useful skill for any guitar player.

​These patterns help you outline chords in your solos, improve your technical skills, and can help you master the guitar fretboard as you learn them.

Dominant 7th is the full name of a chord quality that you are probably already familiar with, whether you realize it or not.

A G dominant 7th chord symbol would be G7.

​Most of us have learned these simply as "7th chords" - I'm going to be a little more specific in this lesson because there are different types of "7th chords" that you might learn later on.

With arpeggio patterns, you are playing the notes from a chord  one at a time - almost like a scale pattern.

If you play a G7 arpeggio, you are playing a G7 chord in a way that you can use for playing melodies, riffs, or guitar solos.

These arpeggio patterns will challenge your fingers to move in new ways, adding a new layer to your technical skills and abilities.

By playing these arpeggio patterns from different starting notes on each string, you can play in any key, anywhere on the guitar fretboard.

Dominant 7th arpeggio patterns are found in many musical styles, including jazz, rock, blues, country, and other popular styles. No matter what kind of music you want to play, these arpeggio patterns will come in handy.


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5 Shapes For The Major 7th Arpeggio

2/25/2021

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Major 7th arpeggios are an important skill for any jazz guitar player to have.

Practicing these arpeggio patterns will help you improve your technique in both hands, develop ideas for improvisation, and learn the notes on the guitar neck.

You are also training your ears and fingers to find notes that are a part of the major 7th chord - so when you see one written on the page (or recognize the sound when you hear it), your fingers know what to do already.


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Basic 4 String Arpeggios For Guitar

11/8/2019

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Have you ever wondered how guitar players come up with interesting guitar parts to songs like House Of The Rising Sun, Hotel California, or Stairway To Heaven? 

Some of the most iconic guitar parts you can think of are created by using a technique called arpeggios.

While some of these parts can sound tricky and complicated, it’s actually a pretty simple technique to get started with.


Arpeggios are an important technique for guitar players in just about any musical style you can imagine.

They provide a different texture for your chords than strumming does, and can be a helpful songwriting tool.


Arpeggios are used throughout all styles of music, and in many cases they make up some of the most memorable guitar parts to songs you like.

Luckily, arpeggios for guitar can be as simple as learning a picking pattern to play while holding down a chord.

​Learning your arpeggio patterns will give you more options to play with as you improve your skills, and make your picking technique better at the same time


In this lesson you will learn the basic 4 string arpeggio picking patterns, and how to apply them to basic open guitar chords. 

By the end of this lesson you’ll have the tools you need to play simple arpeggio picking patterns over chord progressions, and apply them to some of your favorite songs as well.


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