Arpeggios: What Others DON'T Teach YOU 

How to practice them so that they become part of my everyday skill set

Improvising through chord changes🤔 Are you always thinking about the notes in each chord when improvising, or you just go for broke, so to speak. Lol

@@anthonyshaw8698 I've played for years but I've never been able to get to play over changes. I struggle to visualize the fretboard and put meaningful ideas together to create some sort of cohesive melody over the changes

@@dextershumba7262 Some music theory can definitely help with that.

Thank you so much for the endorsement, Jack! 🤘

You’re welcome! 🤘

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching 🤘

Thanks Austin! 🤘What style of music have you been playing?

Thank you, as always! 🙏

You’re welcome Vincenzo!

Thanks Fritz! 🤘

Thanks for watching! 🤘

That's awesome, David! Thank you! I'm super happy that the "60 Master ii-V-I Lines" ebook program is working so well for you and you're already seeing improvement. 🤘

Have you seen some of recent videos on bebop scales and 3-note approaches?

Thank you so much, Jamie! That was always my biggest frustration with many videos I'd see for guitarists on RU-vid, so I wanted to make my lessons from the perspective of someone who could use these concepts on a gig and also connect the videos with overarching principles. I'm not interested in delivering one-off videos to hit a good SEO term as much as trying to build the channel to be a place to build a real foundation for jazz guitar playing (in the style I use and know how to teach). I like your idea a lot, but the problem I've run into is that RU-vid really favors videos that people watch all the way through and I think a play along at the end would make the casual viewer who doesn't have their guitar on them click away. Right now my solution for this is providing backing tracks with some of my course material and future courses I'm working on. And, I have one other idea to make entirely separate RU-vid videos just for practicing the concepts along with me, sort of like a workout or stretch routine you could keep coming back to watch. Would that solve the problem? Definitely will do similar videos on Scales and Triads as well! Thanks for following along 🤘

@@ChaseMaddox That's a fantastic idea! Love that even more that at the end of the videos. I could see me coming back to a video like that multiple times, almost to check my progress against it. You could do things as simple as just playing Shell Voicings of a standard to a click, all the way up to complex single note lines. Great idea man!

Glad that idea resonates with you. I think it would be great to build out a library of similar practice exercises over standards so a beginner/intermediate jazz guitarists could practice along with me. Minimal talking/explanation because the idea is the viewer is playing with me from sheet music/tab PDF associated with the lesson. For example, if someone has 30min and wants to practice Autumn Leaves, they could pull up my video in a Standards playlist, and go through different exercises for fundamentals, comping, soloing, etc. At least it's something I wish I had at that stage in my guitar development.

Thank you Eduardo! 🙏 Can you explain more what you’d like to see? I’m not sure I understand.

@@ChaseMaddox you’ve got in the 5th fret in third and second string C and E right? and in the first string 3rd fret you’ve got G and 7th fret B You’ve got CMaj7 right? And thats 1, 1, 2 pattern In the same chord and same strings you’ve. 2, 1, 1 and. 1, 2, 1 patterns I like to know if you’ve some work for these strings for major, minor and inversions too

Im recently discover your channel and help me to much

That's my guy! Glad you dug the lesson 🤘

@@ChaseMaddox re Benson, is that why your changing your fretting hand to include more third finger than pinkie?

@@jimdolinski8655 partially that, but also because my pinky is shorter than average and my ring finger is longer than average.

Thank you! Are you noticing that on the recent videos too? I’m using one mic to capture voice and guitar, so if I adjust a bit higher sometimes the guitar peaks. I’ll keep adjusting it 👍

@@ChaseMaddox just watched your Wes Montgomery video. Levels are better but still could be a little bit higher. I don’t know but maybe compression could help?

60 different licks. Part of the point is that each of the 12 keys has 5 unique lines 👍

Thanks Jeff! I think there’s TOO much consonance by having the root fall on the downbeat so often.

There's also a bit of a benefit to avoid 'rootlike' thinking too much. The notes don't care what inversion they're in, so, avoiding root fixating, harmonically speaking, isn't a bad thing, necessarily. At least that's how I kind of look at things. Furthermore, Yes, E2 in this case *is* a note in the arpeggio, so... it's always worth it to be aware of the full voicing of things, and I'm a bit of a minimalist, frankly, so... don't forget the introduced accidental, either; all of these are common techniques, really, to make lines come out on desired beats. The Bebop scale is probably the most well-known example.

Thanks Anthony! I have a video this week about all of the equipment I use including amp/audio/pedals/guitar etc...

@@ChaseMaddox Fantastic!! Thanks, I'll look for it👍👍

I use Daddario roundwound .10s. Can’t speak to the difference between metal or wooden bridges since I don’t have much experience with how that changes the sound.

@@ChaseMaddox 10/4 Wow!! Great sound with 10's. I figured you were using at least 11's or 12's Thanks for the response👍👍

That works well too! 🤘

Based on your comment, WhimpyPatrol is an excellent username 👌

Thanks for the comment, Mike. My full reasoning on why I use the picking I do can be found in this video if you haven't seen it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-anbGe4Ct3LQ.html. The double downstroke on the same string you saw at measure 6:00 IS a typo! Thank you for catching that 🙏 It's been fixed in the PDF download as well.

The one at 7:50 sounds like it is played with the initial low E as a strong beat. Why doesn't that start with an upstroke? I do love your stuff, this included, but the picking issue here is bugging me. The harmonic/melodic concepts are great.

Did you watch the picking video I linked to? That'll help me understand what context you have. I no longer correlate my picking with strong or weak beats, but instead with the number of notes on a string. Going from low notes to high notes in this picking style you have more options to the same goal. I could've started with an upstroke on the low E, then a downstroke for the next note, and then another downstroke to start the next string. Whether you started the phrase with a downstroke or upstroke, your third note would be a downstroke in this method

@@ChaseMaddox -- Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I was in Ecuador for a month and just came home to find this tab in my browser! I watched the other video. I have also seen Troy Grady's videos. It looks like you've taken his ideas and adapted them to a jazz improv, which is a great idea. I'm surprised that it works out so well, but I believe you. So I'll buy some of your books and I'll study the method. Thanks!

I’d say that’s accurate. The Master Arpeggios Book Vol. 1 is best to practice the picking and fundamentals, and the 60 Master ii-V-I Lines ebook is best to picking and lines 🤘