Hi! I'm Dan Leonard and I'm going to demonstrate one type of arpeggio in all the positions and also demonstrate an exercise that you want to do to practice going from one arpeggio to the other.
So, first I'm going to go back to the major seven arpeggio and I'm going to play it in all five positions of the fingerboard. Here’s the one that we covered already and based around the E chord form. Here is the E chord form and based around the D chord form [Demonstration].
And this one starts on the third of the chord on the note. It’s a G major seven, but I'm starting from the note B. Then, based around the C chord form. I'll start also on the note B, but in a new position [Demonstration]. And then based around the A chord form starting on the note D still at G major seven arpeggio [Demonstration]. And then based off of the G chord form starting on the note F sharp [Demonstration].
So, those are all the fingerings for a G major seven arpeggio. And once you’re familiar with those, you can then flat the seventh and you’ll get your dominant sevenths, flat the third from that and you’ll get your minor sevens and so on covering all the different types of arpeggios.
Now to demonstrate something that you might shoot for to put all of this together, once you start working on a jazz tune or a jazz song that has a certain chord progression to it, you can practice arpeggiating all the chords in the song. I'm going to do a quick example, there’s a jazz standard called “All The Things You Are,” and I recommend getting a “Fake Book” or some of those one called the “Real Book” that is a book of Jazz tunes. It’s really important to learn tunes and apply all of this to tunes, so it's kind of what it's all about.
So, this is the first part of the chord progression through all the things you are played in arpeggios and I'm just going to play it all in one position. I'm going to do it here at the first finger at the eighth fret. And I'll just say the names of the arpeggios as I play them. F minor seven, B flat minor seven, E flat dominant seven, A flat major seven, D flat major seven, G dominant seven, C major seven.
So, I was just playing constant eighth notes. One measure of each chord and going up one arpeggio and down in the next. And by picking a certain location on the neck I had to think of which fingering was in that location. Initially, you’ll probably have to piece this together and go very slowly, but it's a great way to kind of quiz yourself on your knowledge of the arpeggios on the fingerboard, and obviously, it's a practical thing to practice because you can utilize that when you improvise.
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