Channel: David Magyel

Category: Education

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Description: This week's main focus will be on arpeggios and their application in jazz & blues improvisation. 30 Day Jazz-Blues Piano Challenge Book: bit.ly/jazzbluesbook Day 15 - Bebop Hanon: C7 Arpeggios 0:00 - Level 1 (Theory) 1:44 - Level 2 2:41 - Level 3 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: soundofemotions.com My Sheet Music store bit.ly/sheetmusic-shop My Music: fanlink.to/soundofemotions skaar.bandcamp.com/music Instagram: instagram.com/davidmagyel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lesson Notes: The primary purpose of arpeggios is to outline the chord tones, which gives clarity and direction to your improvisation. This is especially true if you start your arpeggios from the Root or the 3rd. But it is not uncommon to play an arpeggio from any scale degree. It is all up to your personal preferences. My experience is that once you go wild in your improvisation, everything can happen. Everything will happen! So you need to master arpeggios and scale connections from every scale degree. Level 1 - Ascending Arpeggios + Descending Scales. Do you remember Barry Harris' half step rule we talked about on Day 8? The same thing is happening here. When you see an arrow in the music sheet, stop for a second and ask yourself: - Is this a chord tone? (1, 3, 5, b7) - If yes, add an extra half step in between 1 and b7 - Is this a tension note? (2, 4, 6) - If yes, no extra step is needed between 1 and b7 Or, you may want to think in terms of scales/modes: Whenever you see an arrow in the music sheet, think: - Is this a chord tone? (1, 3, 5, b7) - If yes, play a Dominant Bebop scale. - Is this a tension note? (2, 4, 6) - If yes, play a Mixolydian Scale. Level 2 - Play all the arpeggios from every scale degree and keep a steady tempo. I included 7 different left-hand grooves from easy to difficult that you play around with while practicing your right-hand lines. Level 3 - Choose the most challenging left-hand pattern from "Level 2" and play through all the arpeggio+scale variations with that one challenging pattern.