"Connect The Arpeggios"
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PRACTICE: Set a metronome or drum machine to a slow tempo (based on how cleanly you can play the arpeggios). Play "swing" 8th notes (with a bounce) throughout. Practice 4 bars at a time then move on. After you can play through any four bars cleanly, you can then experiment with phrasing, rearranging notes, articulation and so on. Have fun.
Here is an example of "Connecting The Arpeggios" The chords reflect bars 1-4 of the jazz standard All The Things You Are. The original chord is above with possible, but not exhaustive, arpeggio(s) below. The tab also indicates suggested finger usage above fret number. Go to measure by measure arpeggio possibilities. Remember: The four different arpeggios are: Maj7 (major seventh), m7 (minor seventh), dim7 (diminished seventh), and aug (augmented)
Click the diagram to hear these arpeggio ideas played in real time.
NOTE: Arpeggios with an asterisk (*) are commonly referred to as either Altered, Chromatic or Non-Diatonic (all three references refer to chords with intervals from outside the key). While these arpeggios are more tense than diatonic arpeggios they are the basic language of jazz and grow on you as you apply them.
All other arpeggios are Diatonic, which means "of the key" and very safe to use.
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"ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE"
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