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Dominant 7th Arpeggios & How to Use Them (Patreon)

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2021-05-07 18:36:01
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Evening all!

In this week's video I'm discussing dominant 7th arpeggios. There's a bit of theory, we learn the 5 CAGED patterns, and I talk about how to use them in a musical way. Here's the link - 

https://youtu.be/DtySc0zjN74

Below you can find the tab for my solo, the arpeggio connections exercise, and some diagrams of the arpeggio fingerings. Backing track coming up in the next post. 

Hope you find the lesson interesting and helpful.

Have a great week; speak next Friday!

Adrian

Comments

Brian Scott

First let me say that the last 3 or 4 videos have been absolutely stellar. This one is going to take me out of my comfort zone a little. I know enough to recognise the critical importance of the information but it's still confusing. I think if I can get as comfortable with triads and arpeggios as I am with scales I will have really turned a corner. Thank you for being such a helpful part of my guitar journey, you keep me interested with great song selections and challenged with crucially important lessons like this one. Cheers! ....now if you'll excuse me I have *a lot* of work to do, lol

Haroun Haroun

Maybe do a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion lesson next, maybe 'RL got soul' or 'sweet and sour', that way I don't get annoying YouTube ads for 'Blues guitar in 3 days' or some guy with a million tattoos telling me why my guitar playing sucks and only he can fix it for $49.95 a month. Lol

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Brian. Yes, my main focus is usually on the detailed song breakdowns. but I do like to sometimes do some more general lessons on theory, technique scales etc. There's some quite challenging stuff in this one. I'd say the priority should be to get really familiar with your major and minor triads. They're so useful in so many ways. 7th arpeggios can then me seen as just adding an extra note to the triad shapes you already know.

anyonecanplayguitar

Haha, yes I get loads of those ads too, super annoying. That's what you get when you do blues videos! Will give a JSBE lesson some thought. I got really into the Acme album a while back so might try something off that. And I'll check out the tracks you mention too.

Haroun Haroun

i just thought with all the 'rootsy/bluesy' lessons you've been doing lately, something a bit more experimental might feed in nicely, and also break the 'blues lawyer lesson' algorithm!

Brian Scott

Time to circle back to your major and minor triad workout videos, thanks again!

Peter Wynne

Thank you Adrian for keeping this journey interesting for me. I am working steadily on your country lessons but this arpeggio one fits perfectly with my A minor pentatonic study. It seems like every so often i have to return to the basics as i am easily distracted by the fantastic lessons you and my other teachers send out.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Peter, glad you found this one helpful. Yes, I'm the same - such a lot of good lessons out there it's very easy to get distracted and lose focus!

James McGee

this is one of the best lessons i've ever done

Sandra Herkowitz Kennedy

This is a great lesson. My challenge is that I understand all this for keyboard but mapping it on guitar is difficult. I am not sure what the problem is yet but I am hoping your lesson and tabs will help me make the connections.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Sandra. Yes, the guitar isn't the most logical instrument in terms of the way the notes are laid out. It can be quite a long process to really understand the fretboard, but keep practising and I'm sure things will start to fall into place.

John Issitt

this is hitting the mark - many thanks

Alex

Cool exercises

Lindsay

Adrian, just curious what software do you use to produce the sheet music and guitar tabs??

anyonecanplayguitar

Cheers John. Do check out last week's lesson on minor 7th arpeggios too if you've not already seen it!

anyonecanplayguitar

These days it's mostly Guitar Pro for the tabs. (Occasionally Sibelius, but that's expensive and not so Guitar friendly.) For the fretboard diagrams it's a great piece of software called Neck Diagrams.

Michael Reeps

Adrian, In bars 5 & 10 (the D7), are you splitting the bar across two shapes: the C and A shaped voicings?

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi Michael. Yes, I think so. Often I'm thinking about the C form over the D7 chord, but all of the shapes overlap and there are notes in common between pairs of adjacent shapes. So some licks seem to fall on the border between 2 shapes, if that makes any sense?! And you can of course connect shapes horizontally along the fretboard. Eventually you want to become fluent enough that the shapes all merge into one.

Michael Reeps

Adrian. Totally understand, I much prefer the C form of he D7 in that area of the neck, and hope to be connecting more shapes soon. But for the purposes of where I am now, I was hoping to stay in single shape mode just to get it under my fingers. I'll just rewrite the half bar of D7 where it wanders into the adjacent shape.

anyonecanplayguitar

Sounds good Michael. Most of the licks here can be played in multiple ways, so feel free to adjust the fingering to suit your purposes!

Andrew Woodgate

Hi Adrian, I just joined your Patreon site today. Great arpeggio solo mate. I have been working on the Dominant 7th arpeggios for a couple of years now. They are magic when it comes to chord tone soloing. Looking forward to mastering this solo and incorporating it into my playing. Thanks

J Pat Murphy

Was just surfing looking for some guidance to take my guitar playing to the next level. Ran across this vid on YouTube and was instantly hooked in! This really looks like the approach I’ve been looking for to quit playing my 3 or 4 tired licks all the time. Many thanks!

albergo

HI Adrian, I'm finding the exercise here very useful towards being able to hit chord tones. It's quite a challenge and I still have a long way to go, but I'm working on it in all five positions. I have a question about adding the fourth to these arpeggios. Should we only use notes included in the scale of the I chord? The fourth of the I or V chord is in the A7 scale, but in the IV chord, D, the fourth is not in the A7 scale, so maybe avoid adding that note? I know that whatever sounds good sounds good, but theory wise, what about only using notes of the root scale? Can you comment about that, or maybe you do in another lesson?