Arpeggio Superimposition Tutorial

Okay, what I’m going to show is a simple way to improvise over chord changes especially when they change keys. This is the progression from bird’s eye view by Greg Howe. Cm7, Am7, AbM7, and G7. By superimposing a arpeggio you can just stick to one or two kind of ideas and just focus on those during your solo so instead of getting bogged down in all the scales that change as you—as the chords fly by you just pick a simple structure it has a certain shape on the fret board. So the first one, I'm going to pull up the diagram here is a–you could see here a M7 arpeggio. So we’re on the Cm7 we’re starting on the m3rd or the Db. Go down to the M7 of the D.

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Slide, so it fits over nicely. Then down to Am7, you shift it down [Demo] for the AbM7. We start on the 5th of the chord of Eb. Use the same arpeggio as the first one [Demo]. So there we get to reuse the arpeggio or the shape that we’ve already used and then over the G7 or the G7 alter. We can use a augmented triad just starting on the third [Demo] so the nice thing is for this entire progression, I'm just focusing on these shapes. Now, you don’t have to just play them up and down. Play them backwards, just play bits of it [Demo]. Now, you don’t want to be shifting you know for every quarter, just do a—this is just something that gets you going.

You want to be able to connect them nicely. And you don’t want to just start every idea every time the chord changes. Just start again with another like [Demo] you could do that once you know it’s fairly obvious you don’t want to be doing that too much where you just repeat the same exact thing. But, the idea is all of a sudden it takes these complicated chord changes and key changes and you just say, “Wow I'm just going to think about this M7 arpeggio for the first three chords and then just a [Demo] you can try it in different places too. And you know, you can take that M7 arpeggio and play it in different places on the neck.

But it’s a great way to simplify the chord progressions. And you can use these for any chord progression. So the idea is for a m7 chord starting on the m3rd and use a M7 arpeggio. If you have a M7 arpeggio or a M7 chord you can start on the third with a m7 arpeggio or what I did was I started on the 5th with M7 arpeggio. And then on the G7 augmented, I just used the [Demo] G augmented triad. I just started on the E in this case. So you just super impose the arpeggio note that they have a shape on the fret board, which you can move to other chords. So, I hope that will help you simplify your chord progressions. See you guys.


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