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Offline moysture

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Fingering Jazz Chord Arpeggios
on: November 12, 2012, 05:43:42 PM
Hello everyone, recently I have been trying to improve my improvising in the blues. Currently I am just fooling around with the blues scale withing whatever key I am. I do not play any jazz yet but that is my end goal of play style. One of my guitar buddies told me I should start running jazz arpeggios within my blues to start learning how to do runs. I have read this other times before so I thought I should definitely start to work on it.

My problem is I am always paranoid about using the wrong fingering when I start to learn something like this because I don't want practice using the wrong fingering and have it heard me in the end. I was wondering if someone could explain standard arpeggio fingering to me? Is a major chord arpeggio simply 1-2-3-1-2-3?

If someone could help me with the fingering for these chords too it would be fantastic!
c6, cmaj/dom7, cmaj/dom9, cm7, Cdim, and Caug9/7 also a a 5 note chord like a c13

I hope this isn't to much to ask, I just cant seem to find any videos explaining this well. If you know of any helpful videos explaining the fingering for funky chords in arpeggios it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Offline dcstudio

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Re: Fingering Jazz Chord Arpeggios
Reply #1 on: November 12, 2012, 06:42:21 PM
please study your chord symbols :)  C13 think of it as C7 + a Dm triad.. C E G Bb-D F A  this is the block voicing and usually I voice this with the #11-- (F#) which gives it a brighter sound--there are MANY ways to voice each of these chords and the beauty of JAZZ is that you play things YOUR way---no need to be paranoid about fingerings or anything--I am sensing that you have some classical training...as I have...it was VERY difficult for me to accept the fact that there was no precise way of doing things like there is on the classical side.  Tell ya what though--in my experience ( 4 decades)  many classical players seem apprehensive around jazz folks and all the way Jazz players tend to feel inferior around classical players--especially the super reader sorts.  Knowing both is where it's at!  so kudos to you.
try the common "shell" voicings and arpeggiate them.  i.e. 3rd-7th-9th  C9= E Bb D--throw your hands or  -- learn to let them fly even if you hit a sour note--you will make adjustments and your "aim" will improve.  STEADY TEMPO AND JAZZ RHYTHM IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN CORRECTNESS OR CONTROL OF NOTES...this again is really hard to accept for the classical player....at least it was for me...
Good LUCK!!
post some vids of your playing
 

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