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1 3 5 b5 Pattern & Cycle OF Fourths - Guitar Warm-up Exercise
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2023-07-19
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This warm-up exercise for beginner guitarists is designed to help you build dexterity, finger strength, and familiarize yourself with the essential intervals within the context of the cycle of fourths.
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The Blues Arpeggio - How To Mix Major And Minor Triads
- By jazz-guitar-licks
- On 2017-11-17
- In Jazz Guitar Lessons
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What's the Blues Arpeggio ?Traditionally, when a student learns to improvise over a jazz, blues tune, he taught pentatonic scales, major triads or dominant 7th arpeggios, but there is something missing to get this specific and exciting jazz-blues sound, "The Blues Arpeggio". This is a very interesting and important device to use over this musical genre. It is a mix of a major triad and a minor triad, it contains both major and minor thirds, representing one of the most vital elements of the blues. In this jazz guitar lesson we will see how to build the blues arpeggio, how to practice it and how to play it on a blues.
