Little Jazz Workshop Lesson 2 - Scales & Arpeggios

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   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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     Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments



Kristofer Dahl
post 27th February 2008


GMC Founder & Rocker


Excellent Ivan - this will give rock guitarists a great feel for the typical jazz runs which include arpeggios and one note per string, thanks! biggrin.gif
botoxfox
post 27th February 2008


Member


Sounds nice. smile.gif
Tuubsu
post 27th February 2008


Member


Those are some jazzy scales and arpeggios, cool lesson! smile.gif
Trond Vold
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


Nice biggrin.gif
mattacuk
post 27th February 2008


Lets go fishing!


Fantastic work Ivan, you really know your stuff! Much impressed biggrin.gif
Toni Suominen
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


I love these jazz lessons, great work Ivan! smile.gif
Ivan Milenkovic
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


Thanks guys! smile.gif

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 Capezzuto
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


Nice lesson.
Muris Varajic
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


Well done Ivan! smile.gif
Gabriel Leopardi
post 27th February 2008


GMC Coordinator & Instructor


Great job Ivan! Thanks for this lesson!
Alejandro Piņero
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


very nice Ivan!!
at lights end
post 27th February 2008


Member


nice. biggrin.gif
Juan M. Valero
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


cool lesson !! love this jazz licks wink.gif
Joe Kataldo
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


Cool Lesson biggrin.gif
Pablo Vazquez
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


Nice lesson! Sounds cool!
Bogdan Radovic
post 27th February 2008


Bass Instructor


Cool series !! Thanks wink.gif
krudtaa
post 27th February 2008


Member


Great jazz stuff there.
Hisham Al-Sanea
post 27th February 2008


Instructor


nice workshop lesson Ivan. ,,good job
Ivan Milenkovic
post 28th February 2008


Instructor


Thanks guys.. Another lesson left to sum up all the stuff worked in these two.
Ben N
post 28th February 2008


Instructor


that was great lesson!! love that jazz sound
really cool Ivan smile.gif
this kind of stuff is just what I need to work on
thanks!!!
Nemanja Filipovic
post 28th February 2008


Singing Instructor


great man..as always:)
Carlos Carrillo
post 28th February 2008


Instructor


hey ivan!!!great lesson!!!nice job and very creative!!!thanks!
Dejan Farkas
post 28th February 2008


Instructor


Cool biggrin.gif
Crazyfret
post 3rd March 2008


Member


Great lesson Ivan.

Only just discovered this one! Gonna investigate the first lesson.


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