How to Practice Arpeggios for Jazz Guitar

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  • čas přidán 10. 09. 2020
  • This is a great arpeggio exercise that I found online.
    This is the video I'm referring to:
    • Easy Arpeggio Exercise...
    My old video where I do a similar exercise but with scales
    • Jazz Guitar Lesson #3 ...
    Tabs and notation on my Patreon page
    www.patreon.com/user?u=106302...
    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
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Komentáře • 91

  • @willychi9315
    @willychi9315 Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @johnbates9040
    @johnbates9040 Před 3 lety +6

    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 ! .

  • @robertburks2187
    @robertburks2187 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @natehiltz
    @natehiltz Před 3 lety +3

    Such a cool sounding excercise!

  • @bungorogers7067
    @bungorogers7067 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @peternazareth3352
    @peternazareth3352 Před 3 lety

    Good knowledge you are sharing. Very grateful to you.

  • @rogerbanat
    @rogerbanat Před 3 lety

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

  • @frankvaleron
    @frankvaleron Před 3 lety

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

  • @gusreece7951
    @gusreece7951 Před 3 lety +1

    Very helpful - trying it out now!

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      Glad you like it. Thank Lage Lund 😀

  • @juanjabustos
    @juanjabustos Před 3 lety

    Great job Mikko! Greetins from Argentina

  • @kevinwang984
    @kevinwang984 Před 2 lety

    very useful, Thank you Mikko!

  • @chasburns3599
    @chasburns3599 Před 3 lety

    This is fun and very helpful. I love arps !

  • @tinajackel
    @tinajackel Před 2 lety

    very cool ideas! thank you for sharing

  • @randallpmcmurphy7501
    @randallpmcmurphy7501 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      Yup I tell my students to practice scales on the piano 😎

  • @aaronservice86
    @aaronservice86 Před 3 lety

    Great video man

  • @randallpmcmurphy7501
    @randallpmcmurphy7501 Před 3 lety

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

  • @Racosz
    @Racosz Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @ThomasHope73
    @ThomasHope73 Před 3 lety

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

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      Yup I tell that to my students all the time 😎

  • @danielbarry5547
    @danielbarry5547 Před 3 lety

    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-vu6su
    @Oliver-vu6su Před 3 lety +8

    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! :)

  • @TONIKOBLER
    @TONIKOBLER Před rokem

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

  • @sturdychinfilms
    @sturdychinfilms Před rokem

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

  • @kuchavao
    @kuchavao Před 3 lety

    Thank you.

  • @codica666
    @codica666 Před 3 lety +4

    Dang just watching the video and no guitar close by. Makes my brain go into overdrive.

  • @DavideSchachterJazz
    @DavideSchachterJazz Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      😅😅😅😅

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +7

      hey what about bends..slides...tapping??? I wanna see a piano player do that :p Dive bombs?

    • @DavideSchachterJazz
      @DavideSchachterJazz Před 3 lety +1

      @@Mikkokosmos Segovia used to say the "guitar is like an orchestra" because of so many things it can do it is such a marvelous super complicate instrument. It's difficult to become a great pianist but extremely difficult to become a great guitarist!

  • @doordashh
    @doordashh Před 3 lety

    chord tones 💖

  • @charlesgrey8651
    @charlesgrey8651 Před 3 lety

    Holy Smokes, ... Cool 😃

  • @rsixel
    @rsixel Před rokem

    One good way to study arpeggios is doing 4th circles: m7-7-7M chords

  • @stratoleft
    @stratoleft Před 2 lety

    Don't jump the gun, Mikko. I don't know who your clientele is/are, but I don't care if they already know arpeggios. I don't, and I just fake it when I do. Sometimes I get away with it. Mostly not. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter what I already know or don't know. Many times it's hard enough for me to get the timing right, and the feel I want, with spacing between just 3 or 4 notes. Too bad I can't go back to high school with you as a teacher and start all over. Furthermore, I'll give an example of the kind of spacing I'm talking about. Listen to the very beginning of one of my favorite tunes of all time, Line Games, by Pat Martino and his band. The song starts out with one striking chord and drums. Then those, I guess, 1-2-3-4 notes intro of Line Games. When I try it, I mostly just blurt those sort of bass notes together, without the spacing and without that solid feel. You try to go slower and it's pointless and doesn't come out right. I don't know anything about music so I haven't even dared to attempt trying Line Games. I managed to get a fee that sounded right from his scale type of thing once. But that's about it.

  • @artwdeetoo
    @artwdeetoo Před rokem

    It is amazing Mikko of how your brain is connected to your fingers and move them accordingly, amazing how a God Almighty created us with this incredible mind of ours to develop such connections, brain-member, brain-sight, brain-decision, brain-action, I know this is not church, but, everybody needs some encouragement at times, doesn't it. Joe.

  • @ouellette1950
    @ouellette1950 Před 3 lety

    Good stuff .
    Nice guitar sound .
    Which one , guitar and amp ?

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      D'angelico Deluxe Brighton. The amp is a Quilter 101 😎

  • @HarryBarry97
    @HarryBarry97 Před 3 lety +1

    hej mikko. nu har jag lärt mig grund arpeggios. har du något tips hur man gör licks av dem? du blander noterna i skalan och arpeggios elr hur?
    mvh Harald

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      Mitt tips: lär dig några solon av mästarna och kolla in hur dom gör med arpeggion. Charlie Parker och Django rekommenderas 😎😎😎

  • @jansen_music
    @jansen_music Před 3 lety

    You have done reviews on so many great books .curious why you by-passed the tried and true Berklee Guitar Method .is there a reason for that.. (Lage Lund won a scholarship there). At Berklee the arp. spellings and fingerings are to be memorized by reading them. The exercise you shared is very useful and fun ..Thank you!

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      Thanks :) I used to have that method book years and years ago. Maybe I should get a copy and look at it again after all these years 😎

    • @jansen_music
      @jansen_music Před 3 lety

      Mikko Hilden The études in Books 2 and 3 are excellent ..Mick Goodrick had me playing all of those .

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      @@jansen_music oh cool. I don't think I have ever played those.

    • @jimkangas4176
      @jimkangas4176 Před 3 lety

      @@jansen_music ahh - the muse!

  • @jackbombeeck4958
    @jackbombeeck4958 Před 2 lety

    How about not going up by half steps but picking a (any) note from a key that the chord was in? E.g. if you played a FM7 arpegio, you could go to a Gm or a BbM7 from the 3rd if you think of it as the tonic of F, or to Dm7 or G7 from the 3rd if you think of it as the IV chord of C. It might come closer to things you would actually want to play...

  • @marianorequejo5644
    @marianorequejo5644 Před 3 lety

    Hi Mikko, i'm just starting to learn arpeggios, would you recomend learning them in relation with a method like caged?? Or should i figure them out based on intervals?
    Great video :)

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks 🙂 try to learn them any way you can. The key thing is that you need to know what note you're playing and how it relates to the chord 🙂

    • @SIVA6619
      @SIVA6619 Před 3 lety

      try that : 21212 and 12121 (note by string) for every type-chord and every inversion
      It did wonders in my arpegios playing. So you can practice 212 on set of strings, both modally and with inversions for each chord-type. Then you do 21212 starting on the 6th string and 5th string. And the chord-type important to know in this order (got from bret wilmott excellent book) :
      * Maj7
      * Ma7b5
      * Maj7#5
      * Min7
      * Min7b5
      * Min7#5
      * Min6
      * 6
      * 7
      * 7#5
      * 7b5
      * 7sus
      * Dim7
      * Dimmaj7
      * Minmaj7

    • @marianorequejo5644
      @marianorequejo5644 Před 3 lety

      @@SIVA6619 thanks guys!!! I will check the book!

    • @SIVA6619
      @SIVA6619 Před 3 lety

      @@marianorequejo5644 the book is actually about drop2 voicings, but since it is 4 notes it can be viewed the same as arpeggios. as for the 212 approach, Tim Miller does that a lot. He just released a book about it might be interesting

    • @marianorequejo5644
      @marianorequejo5644 Před 3 lety

      @@SIVA6619 i don't think i understand the concept le 21212 and the notes per string thing
      Is it like this?:
      Play 2 notes from an arpeggio in the 6th string and then i played the next note in the 5th string (etc)?
      Like some kind of variation of the 3 notes per string?

  • @eternalrainbow-cj3iu
    @eternalrainbow-cj3iu Před 3 lety

    Hi Mikko You look sometimes like a professor...A True jazz Professor..I am glad I am one of your greedy students...like the glasses smurf whos ia obedient to Huge Smurf with the red hat...in the Smurfes

  • @SGasan116
    @SGasan116 Před 3 lety

    Hello, Mikko! What the name of another book at the beginning?

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      Jazz Theory Resources: Volume 1 Great Book :D

    • @SGasan116
      @SGasan116 Před 3 lety

      @@Mikkokosmos No, not Ligon book, another one?

  • @plantagenant
    @plantagenant Před 3 lety

    A major 7 arpeggio to Gflat major 7 arpeggio....instant Phillip Glass.

  • @SGasan116
    @SGasan116 Před 3 lety

    Sorry for asking again, but what the name of another book, not Ligon blue book, but another?

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      Complete book of harmony, theory and voicing. I cover that book un the previous lesson 😃

  • @WBUSCH49
    @WBUSCH49 Před 2 lety

    HI MIKKO I do stilll stress the totall different guigar experience when it. Omes to arpeggios when the fingers are connected to tje intervs and when we are using two fi gers and notes on one strii g for easier right hand I do prefer myself to change pksition during those things.... MY WISH IS That the worth hidden in those letters is cauvjt by any one who is a treasure diverr in jazz...

  • @woolyxoctober
    @woolyxoctober Před 3 lety

    When you changed the note on E string how did you chose the chord to arpeggio?

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      hmm Not sure what you mean? The chord and the arpeggio are the same. The second note I start on is Bb so that's the third of Gbmaj7, hence I play a Gbmaj7 arpeggio and chord. Hope that helps 😎

    • @woolyxoctober
      @woolyxoctober Před 3 lety

      Mikko Hilden I mean the Bb could be fifth of Eb or maybe a third on G7. I quest I was confused how you chose what chord to arpeggiate over

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      @@woolyxoctober Oh I take them in the order of the notes of a Maj7 arpeggio. so Root then third then fifth and finally seventh. Only Major 7th chords in the first example then minor seven etc. I didn't cover dominant chords in the video.

    • @woolyxoctober
      @woolyxoctober Před 3 lety +1

      Mikko Hilden got it. Thanks.

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      @@woolyxoctober 😎👍

  • @zozovaca
    @zozovaca Před 3 lety

    Great video, but, at the end, even when you "remove" strings, you have to learn new shapes/forms, right? So, it is all about shapes. :) We should have more "boxes", not just few, i guess... :)

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      Yes, good point. We still think shapes but it's more visual rather than just finger habits and muscle memory. It's also opening up the arpeggios in a musical way so it doesn't just sound like an exercise. And the point of the exercise is that you really have to know the notes of the chord/arpeggio you are playing and not just rely on what the fingers want to do 😎

    • @zozovaca
      @zozovaca Před 3 lety

      @@Mikkokosmos , right. Anyway, it takes A LOT of exercise TO NOT sound like you are playing exercise. :D Curse of jazz. :D

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      @@zozovaca exactly! Well said 😁👍👍

  • @tr3ndkiller
    @tr3ndkiller Před 7 měsíci

    You just need to know where the root is and match it with the corresponding shape. Not really sure how it’s possible to think of EVERY note that you’re playing unless you play at snail pace 100% of the time.

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 7 měsíci

      It's absolutely necessary to be aware of every note if you want to be able to play Jazz, I think. And to get away from the shapes. That's the point of this exercise. Snail pace (I like that analogy) is a good place to start. Practicing slow is very important as well.

  • @williamrobinson7061
    @williamrobinson7061 Před 3 lety

    To me, I'm learning the sound of the note, not its name. Am I missing the point?

    • @roblosh8417
      @roblosh8417 Před 3 lety

      You mean the sound of the interval within the context of the root? Yeah, the point is to know the name, I think knowing it’s sound is a given. I’m still learning all the note names in a scale/arpeggio, the more I learn it the easier it gets :)

    • @williamrobinson7061
      @williamrobinson7061 Před 3 lety

      @@roblosh8417 It seems to me that pitches need context, unless you have perfect pitch. The note letter names seem secondary; the note (interval) sound comes first for me. If knowing the letter name is the point, this would help in notating it; but I can't see the advantage in hearing or playing it. BUT, I do I use letter-names as roots, sparingly, in relation to chords, like when I want to go to a certain root.

  • @randallpmcmurphy7501
    @randallpmcmurphy7501 Před 3 lety

    Jim Hall used to put masking tape around pairs of strings for practice.

  • @basenjiguitar
    @basenjiguitar Před rokem

    jazzist dont know arpeggios give sadness

  • @whimpypatrol5503
    @whimpypatrol5503 Před 3 lety

    Huh? If it doesn't translate back into a chord, I have no idea what the arpeggios you're playing are. Telling me this one starts on the third or fifth or major 7th is not enough for me to see what transformation of what chord it is or isn't. The logic of what you are doing is missing from you topic statement.

    • @whimpypatrol5503
      @whimpypatrol5503 Před 3 lety

      A simple very basic example for dummies at the start would help instead of jumping straight into jazz chords (and ones from the sound track of the famous 1959 Alfred Hitchcock thriller at that). Now I have to search thru 25 videos on arppegos of reading the notes one-by-one to figure out whT your talking about. (Glenn Campbell would also have been lost except he could look over to the other studio players who read music and go from there without having to dig thru 20 other videos -- and 150 ads)

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety

      Sorry I have no idwa what you're talking about. "doesn't translate back into a vhird"? 🤔 What does that mean? I'm playing Maj7th chord arpeggios for example and clearly explain when I do. How does that not translate into s chord?

    • @Mikkokosmos
      @Mikkokosmos  Před 3 lety +1

      @@whimpypatrol5503 If you want "exapmles for dummies" you're on the wrong channel, my friend 🤠 this channel is about advanced Jazz guitar. If you don't like ads I suggest learning from a different medium, maybe a book? Maybe look up a teacher in your area? Hope that helps.