Little Jazz Workshop Lesson 2 - Scales & Arpeggios

- Kristofer Dahl27th February 2008
  Excellent Ivan - this will give rock guitarists a great feel for the typical jazz runs which include arpeggios and one note per string, thanks!
- botoxfox27th February 2008
  Sounds nice.
- Tuubsu27th February 2008
  Those are some jazzy scales and arpeggios, cool lesson!
- Trond Vold27th February 2008
  Nice
- mattacuk27th February 2008
  Fantastic work Ivan, you really know your stuff! Much impressed
- Toni Suominen27th February 2008
  I love these jazz lessons, great work Ivan!
- Ivan Milenkovic27th February 2008
  Thanks guys!
  
  EDIT: This lesson's main goal is to lead into the next one where we will do some soloing. The whole concept behind the series is as follow:
  
  1. lesson - we do chords
  2. lesson - we find arpeggios of those chords and scales that we wanna use and warm up
  3. lesson - we do some improvisation based on previous stuff.
  
  I think this approach is very practical and use it all the time when composing something jazzy. This way we can really get into the piece correctly and really understand the changes properly.
- Danilo Capezzuto27th February 2008
  Nice lesson.
- Muris Varajic27th February 2008
  Well done Ivan!
- Gabriel Leopardi27th February 2008
  Great job Ivan! Thanks for this lesson!
- Alejandro Pinero27th February 2008
  very nice Ivan!!
- at lights end27th February 2008
  nice.
- Juan M. Valero27th February 2008
  cool lesson !! love this jazz licks
- Joe Kataldo27th February 2008
  Cool Lesson
- Pablo Vazquez27th February 2008
  Nice lesson! Sounds cool!
- Bogdan Radovic27th February 2008
  Cool series !! Thanks
- krudtaa27th February 2008
  Great jazz stuff there.
- Hisham Al-Sanea27th February 2008
  nice workshop lesson Ivan. ,,good job
- Ivan Milenkovic28th February 2008
  Thanks guys.. Another lesson left to sum up all the stuff worked in these two.
- Ben N28th February 2008
  that was great lesson!! love that jazz sound
  really cool Ivan
  this kind of stuff is just what I need to work on
  thanks!!!
- Nemanja Filipovic28th February 2008
  great man..as always:)
- Carlos Carrillo28th February 2008
  hey ivan!!!great lesson!!!nice job and very creative!!!thanks!
- Dejan Farkas28th February 2008
  Cool
- Crazyfret3rd March 2008
  Great lesson Ivan.
  
  Only just discovered this one! Gonna investigate the first lesson.

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- Tags: Improvisations, Ear developing, Economy picking, Alternate picking
Hi GMC! Welcome to the second-in-line lesson about jazz called "Little Jazz Workshop"!

Today we're gonna learn some scales and arpeggios used for the soloing in the third lesson. Now bare in mind that this lesson is very important step, so I suggest going trough lesson 1 and lesson 2 before continuing to lesson three in order to fully understand the concept of jazz composing used for these lessons. Hopefully this concept that I've made can serve to you as a guide to make your own jazz work if you just began to dwelve in jazz waters :)

This exercise is good for the fingers, but also very useful for warming up your mind and ear for jazz soloing. I've been around a few times with Jazz Big Band Orchestra of our national TV in studio and noticed their brass section always making similar warm-ups together. You would think that these exercises are simple, but they are great for quick warming up the ear just before you start to improvise, since they build a relative connections to different scales and chords.

This lesson is not made to make your left hand better, it is made to make you right hand better. The majority of us can play fast with our left hand, but in order to play jazz, you have to have a very smooth and developed right arm as well. When doing scales we will use two basic techniques that we need when playing jazz economy and alternate picking styles, combining three-note-per-string with 2/4 note-per string patterns.

Note that the lesson requiers some theory knowledge about scales, modes and chords, so if you have troubles following please check out Andrew's theory board on the forum or check my own theory topic in my board for specific questions.

This lesson involves:

- right hand dexterity
- warming up for jazz improvisations
- ear developing
- scales and arpeggios of jazzy chords
- economy and alternate picking styles

Sound: Humbucker Bridge, Tone rolled off, Gipsy Jazz Line 6 preset, high bass and middle.

Here are links to the first and third lesson in series:

Little Jazz Workshop Lesson 1 - Chords
Little Jazz Workshop Lesson 3 - Solo

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