 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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 Learning the notes on the guitar neck is an important part of learning guitar, but is often overlooked in guitar lessons.
This lesson is the second part in a series about learning the notes on the guitar neck. If you haven’t gone through the lesson on natural notes, click here. Learning the natural and sharp notes on the fretboard will help prepare you for more advanced guitar playing skills like movable chord and fill in some of the gaps in your fretboard knowledge. There is a simple process you can use that will help you learn all of the natural and sharp note names on every string, and it only takes a few minutes a day to master. In this lesson you will learn:
 Reading music is an essential skill for guitar players, and would be something that gets covered in your guitar lessons.
There are 3 types of music reading that all guitar players should be aware of:
In this lesson, we are going to focus on reading TAB, or tablature. Reading TAB is a skill that will help you start to learn songs, riffs, and other material that is written down Tab shows you the strings on the guitar, and uses numbers to tell you what fret to put your fingers on. It’s kind of like a coordinate system - you find the right string or line, and then you find the right fret or number - then you’ll have the right note! It is important for you to learn how to read TAB because most guitar resources today incorporate it into the way they present musical ideas, whether they are showing chords, single notes, or arpeggios. Depending on how serious you are about learning music, TAB might be the only music reading skill you need. If you are looking into learning to play guitar as a hobby, TAB is a perfect way to get started. If you are looking into a degree or a career in music, TAB is still a great way to start out - you’ll just want to transition into reading standard musical notation as well. In this lesson, you will learn the basics of how to read TAB for guitar, and get a basic understanding of how it will help you learn to play songs on your guitar.  Learning the notes on the guitar neck is an important part of learning guitar, but is often overlooked in guitar lessons.
Because the guitar is a pattern based instrument, many guitar teachers and students focus on learning chord shapes, scale patterns, and sometimes feel like they can get away with not knowing what the note names on their fretboard are. Learning the notes on the fretboard will help prepare you for more advanced guitar playing skills like movable chord and scale shapes that let you play freely all over the guitar |
