How to Practice Arpeggios for Jazz Guitar

This is a great arpeggio exercise that I found online.

This is the video I'm referring to:

My old video where I do a similar exercise but with scales

Tabs and notation on my Patreon page

I noticed a mistake in the notation of the Db arp in the last exercise. Either way works..what I'm playing or what's in the notation. Sorry about that.

The guitar is a D'angelico Deluxe Brighton

#JazzGuitarLessons

[willychi]

I'm glad You read all these books and share the knowledge, thank You!

[johnbates]

The underlying thing here is an initial strength but a long term weakness when learning guitar including rock and jazz where we just move shapes and patterns but don't know the notes, this is an excellent lesson and moves away from just trying to learn the arpeggios by rote, gives me a musical concept as well, thank you Mikko
Also add I'm trying to adopt a new behaviour in single note playing that I do not play a note if I don't know what it is, try it it's hard ! .

[robertburks]

Ive seen this before as an exercise for vocalists...very impressive. Keep up the good work!

[randallpmcmurphy]

Learning all my scales on the piano was the best thing I ever did for my guitar playing.

[TONIKOBLER]

👍 exercices to play deferents scales and tonalites on the same place

[danielbarry]

I think the guitar problem with learning shapes will never be solved... especially exercises because their not musical..its be to apply these to improv right away in my opinion. Great vid!

[Oliver-vusu]

Insead of skipping a string, (in order to break habbits), you could take the harmonic concept from a prievious video and put in a 9th (or some other extension) instead of the root, 3rd, 5th or 7th. So that your arpeggio becomes e.g. 2 3 5 7 or 1 2 5 7 etc... Not sure if you’ll find anything interesting but it sure makes me think more about the notes.

Oh and nice video! :)

[Racosz]

Excellent and challenging exercise. It would be interesting to apply the same concept changing the interval between starting notes of each arpeggio (whole tone, minor third, etc).

Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

[bungorogers]

Thank you, just what I needed! Coming from sax where, as you stated, the "feel" of each key is quite different due to different fingerings and helps me to visualize what I'm playing. As I've been putting more time into learning what I'm doing on guitar I keep seeing shapes rather than notes and this exercise will help me to understand what I'm playing. Also, descending arpeggios and other root movements are things I'm used to on sax that I will incorporate into guitar practice.

[tinajackel]

very cool ideas! thank you for sharing

[ThomasHope]

Singing (or saying) the note names out loud, or in your head, as you play, is a really really good practice.

[rogerbanat]

Thank you for this video. I've been trying to learn jazz solo and this video help me a lot.

[DavideSchachterJazz]

you just destroyed the only one advantage we have over pianists !!! ;)

[peternazareth]

Good knowledge you are sharing. Very grateful to you.

[frankvaleron]

Thanks Mikko this is a great lesson and a real challenge in a good way

[juanjabustos]

Great job Mikko! Greetins from Argentina

[sturdychinfilms]

Come on Mikko, we know this stuff, we know our arpeggios! 😁

[chasburns]

This is fun and very helpful. I love arps !

[bilaerbilaer]

My solution to guitar shape problem is to practice arpeggio by reading sheet music and deliberately avoid remembering any shapes. It forces me to remember the note that I play

[randallpmcmurphy]

I like it when you fuck up. Gives me comfort.