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    The document provides instructions on playing arpeggios on guitar for jazz improvisation. It explains that arpeggios are broken chords played one note at a time, and are useful for reflecting the harmony in solos. It then gives examples of basic arpeggio positions for common chord progressions like Am7, D7, and Gmaj7. It encourages practicing the arpeggios both independently and over the chord changes. Finally, it lists the standard arpeggio shapes for major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, and diminished chords.

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    The document provides instructions on playing arpeggios on guitar for jazz improvisation. It explains that arpeggios are broken chords played one note at a time, and are useful for reflecting the harmony in solos. It then gives examples of basic arpeggio positions for common chord progressions like Am7, D7, and Gmaj7. It encourages practicing the arpeggios both independently and over the chord changes. Finally, it lists the standard arpeggio shapes for major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, and diminished chords.

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    The document provides instructions on playing arpeggios on guitar for jazz improvisation. It explains that arpeggios are broken chords played one note at a time, and are useful for reflecting the harmony in solos. It then gives examples of basic arpeggio positions for common chord progressions like Am7, D7, and Gmaj7. It encourages practicing the arpeggios both independently and over the chord changes. Finally, it lists the standard arpeggio shapes for major, minor, dominant, half-diminished, and diminished chords.

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    The key takeaways are that arpeggios are broken chords played note by note, and they are important for jazz improvisation as they reflect the harmony. Different types of arpeggios like major, minor, dominant are discussed along with their shapes.

    The different types of arpeggios discussed are major, minor, dominant, half diminished, and diminished arpeggios. The article provides the shapes and positions for these different arpeggio types.

    Arpeggios can be used in improvisation by playing the notes of the chord in your solo to reflect the harmony. The article provides an example of improvising over a 2-5-1 progression using only the discussed arpeggio shapes.

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    Arpeggios
    An arpeggio is a broken chord, where the notes of the chord are played
    in succession.
    Arpeggios are a good base for improvisation over chord progressions. By
    playing the chord tones in your guitar solo you reflect the harmony of the tune
    in your solo, something that makes your improvisation interesting to listen
    to.
    It's important that you know every arpeggio in all positions of the guitar neck.
    This can be a bit daunting in the beginning, but with regular practice you can
    play any arpeggio without thinking. In this tutorial we'll be starting with some
    basic positions, no need to learn them all at once.
    All arpeggios are of the movable type, I'll explain you at the end of this page
    what that means.

    1) 2 5 1 Position A
    We're going to learn the basic arpeggios by looking at some common chord
    progressions. The most common chord progression in jazz is the 2 5 1. In
    this example we'll be working in the key of G major:
    |Am7
    |II

    |D7
    |V

    |Gmaj7
    |I

    |%
    |

    |
    |

    To play over this kind of chord progression, we'll need 3 kinds of arpeggios:
    minor, dominant and major. Here's the arpeggio for the Am7 chord:
    Am7

    b3

    b7

    : represents the root or 1 of the guitar chord. The letter inside the box is
    the note name.
    : blue squares represent a chord tone other than the 1.

    To practice this minor arpeggio, play it like this until it jumps out of your fingers
    without having to think about it:

    You can also practice it by first playing the chord and then the arpeggio, a
    good exercise for your ears:

    We go on to the D7 chord:
    D7

    F#

    b7

    Start by practicing this dominant arpeggio like this:

    Like the minor arpeggio examples, you can also play the chord before the
    arpeggio as an exercise.
    And then we arrive at the Gmaj7 chord:
    Gmaj7

    F#

    Practice this major arpeggio the way we did for the minor and dominant
    arpeggio (start on the root).
    Ok, we know the basic positions for the arpeggios, now we're going to
    combine them:

    This is an example of how you can combine the arpeggios. It's not very
    musical at this point, but being able to play them like this is a necessary step
    in the learning process. Let's have a look at another example, starting from
    a different place:

    Now start improvising over these chord changes using only these arpeggios.
    You can start on any note you want or use any rhythm you want, although for
    educational purposes it's better to play a long stream of 8-notes like in the
    examples. To make sure you change chords at the right place you can use
    software like Band in a Box (or you can do the hard work yourself and record
    the changes with a metronome).
    Good to know: all arpeggios are movable. If you know the arpeggio for Am7
    you can use that same 'shape' to find the arpeggios for other minor chords.
    Let's say you want to find the arpeggio for Gm7. All we have to do is slide the
    arpeggio for Am7 2 frets down. So instead of starting on the 5th fret in case of
    Am7, we start on the 3rd fret for Gm7. This is the result:

    You move the root to the appropriate note on the string and play the shape
    from there. Another example: we know the arpeggio shape for D7, so it's easy
    to find B7:

    Good, we just touched the very basics of arpeggios, of course there are other
    chord types, positions and techniques. Stay tuned for a next episode coming
    soon!

    Part 2: Arpeggio Shapes


    For this second part of Arpeggio 101, I listed the arpeggio shapes for the
    main chord types: major, minor, dominant, m7b5 and diminished.
    Memorizing these arpeggio shapes can be a bit of a hassle, but it's important
    that you know them. Don't try to learn them all at once, give yourself the time
    and take it easy.
    The arpeggios on this page are compulsory knowledge for every jazz guitarist.
    In the following list I give you the arpeggios for specific chords, e.g. Am7, but
    remember that the shapes are movable (if this is not clear to you, read the end
    of Arpeggio 101 Part 1).

    1) Arpeggio Shapes for Major Chords


    : represents the root or 1 of the guitar chord. The letter inside the box is
    the note name.
    : blue squares represent a chord tone other than the 1.
    The number under the arpeggio diagrams is the fret number.
    Chord: Gmaj7
    Starting on the root or the 7:

    Starting on the 3rd:

    Also starting on the 3rd, but going in another direction:

    Starting on the 5th:

    Starting on the 7 or the root:

    And here are two additional diagrams, where I play 2 notes per string. These
    patterns fall very convenient on the fretboard:

    2) Arpeggio Shapes for Minor Chords


    Chord: Am7
    Starting on the root:

    Starting on the 3rd:

    Starting on the 5th in two directions:

    Starting on the b7:

    And here are 2 additional 2 notes/string shapes:

    3) Arpeggio Shapes for Dominant Chords


    Chord: G7
    Starting from the root:

    From the 3rd:

    From the 5th:

    From the b7:

    And 2 additional 2 notes/string diagrams:

    4) Arpeggio Shapes for Half Diminished Chords

    Chord: Bm7b5
    Starting from the root:

    From the b3:

    From the b5:

    From the b7:

    And the two additional 2 notes/string diagrams:

    5) Arpeggio Shapes for Diminished Chords


    There are only 2 shapes (+ the additional 2 notes/string shape) for diminished
    chords, that is because diminished arpeggios are symmetrical: they are built
    exclusively with minor third intervals. You can move these arpeggios 3 frets
    up and down the neck and you will still play the good notes. This means G7
    = Bb7 = Db7 = E 7, so you can start this arpeggio on the 3rd, the 6th, the
    9th or the 12th fret and you'll be playing the same chord.
    Chord: G7 (= Bb7 = Db7 = E 7)

    And here's the 2 notes/string shape:

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