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The Arpeggio Survival Guide! Path To Melodic Soloing. (Patreon)

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2026-07-25 13:00:17
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Welcome to one of my deepest, most thorough lesson to date! A full masterclass not only on mapping out the most important arpeggio shapes for all of your chord types, but also lengthy examples of how I, and you, should practice and apply these things in order to improve your soloing and effortlessly create melody in your lines.

These are not solely for use when playing over jazz changes, but are universally applicable to any of your guitar work in any style.. blues, Americana, rock, country.. whatever it is; having a command over your arpeggios will add deeper purpose and musical connection to your playing.

A mammoth lesson with the materials to match! SIX pages of arpeggio shapes and chord diagrams in Guitar Pro and PDF formats. Chord charts for the THREE jazz standards I use as examples, along with each of their backing tracks!

This video, combined with the materials, makes for a truly life-long resource you can revisit time and time again to gauge your progress and get back to some all-important fundamental drills.

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The Arpeggio Survival Guide! Everything You Need for More Melodic Soloing! Essential Jazz Workouts!

Full lesson materials available on my Patreon page at the link below; https://patreon.com/AlexFarranGuitar If Patreon isn’t your bag, you can purchase the 8 pages of lesson materials for this lesson alone, directly at the link below; https://smogfalls.gumroad.com/l/rmbpfx Book in for a private Zoom lesson!.. just choose a slot at the link below; https://tidycal.com/alexfarranguitar/guitarlesson Welcome to one of my deepest, most thorough lesson to date! A full masterclass not only on mapping out the most important arpeggio shapes for all of your chord types, but also lengthy examples of how I, and you, should practice and apply these things in order to improve your soloing and effortlessly create melody in your lines. These are not solely for use when playing over jazz changes, but are universally applicable to any of your guitar work in any style.. blues, Americana, rock, country.. whatever it is; having a command over your arpeggios will add deeper purpose and musical connection to your playing. A mammoth lesson with the materials to match! SIX pages of arpeggio shapes and chord diagrams in Guitar Pro and PDF formats. Chord charts for the THREE jazz standards I use as examples, along with each of their backing tracks! This video, combined with the materials, makes for a truly life-long resource you can revisit time and time again to gauge your progress and get back to some all-important fundamental drills. ⏱️Time Stamps ⏱️ 00:00 - Introduction 01:29 - Lesson Materials 01:54 - Mission Brief E string rooted shapes: 02:12 - C Major arpeggio 03:10 - C minor arpeggio 03:50 - C Major 7 arpeggio 05:12 - C dominant 7 arpeggio 05:55 - C minor 7 arpeggio 06:44 - Cm7b5 arpeggio 07:15 - Fingering options 07:46 - C diminished 7 arpeggio 08:25 - What about sixths?! A string rooted shapes: 08:41 - C Major arpeggio 09:30 - C minor arpeggio 09:43 - C Major 7 arpeggio 10:11 - C dominant 7 arpeggio 10:43 - C minor 7 arpeggio 11:05 - Cm7b5 arpeggio 11:34 - Diminished 7 arpeggio Bonus Arpeggios!.. 12:13 - C Major 6 (same as Am7) 13:20 - Pentatonic-Adjacent 14:03 - Minor 6 (Django flavoured!) 14:35 - Same as m7b5! 15:05 - A string rooted Major and minor 6ths 16:14 - Augmented arpeggio 17:29 - Resolving the Augmented 17:58 - How to Practice this stuff?! 19:11 - “All The Things You Are” roadmap 21:41 - “All The Things You Are” improvisation 23:32 - “All of Me” - roadmap 25:06 - “All of Me” - improvisation 27:27 - The Half Note Exercise 27:58 - Applied to “Cherokee” 30:24 - Closing Thoughts Reference videos; "All The Things You Are" - Chord Melody lesson; https://youtu.be/39Ws3B2va0U?si=swqMo2JxP-ydLTFk Jazz Chords Survival Guide; https://youtu.be/YuGjk8Hqpnw?si=Iuibh3I2nXscMy7Q CAGED System Survival Guide; https://youtu.be/v8bNsQhYYP0 Diminished Chords Survival Guide; https://youtu.be/cE7DTVknkXU?si=x6ePOZku3vFLv1dU Turnarounds Survival Guide; https://youtu.be/JJlv1zc3v-o?si=oqYtkSiS9cNAkBUI Tritone Substitution Survival Guide; https://youtu.be/Djm-tN43Q2g?si=BXd8IiaRgQiNxDGi Chord Inversions Survival Guide; https://youtu.be/beNIoPZsq6Y?si=MMwPOUbnhHXICQ4S Three Note Voicings & Spread Triads; https://youtu.be/fvvIc93f-EU?si=rQiZPIhQtTgy5oEK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for watching and please do leave a comment down below, and if you could hit the like button and subscribe to my channel, that would really be so appreciated. If you'd like to support the work I do, you can buy me a coffee at this link; https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alexfarran I'm also very active on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexfarranguitar #guitarlesson #triads #arpeggios #jazzguitar #bluesguitar #looper #practice #gypsyjazz #minorblues #guitarsolo #improvisation #djangoreinhardt #wesmontgomery #guitarlicks #guitartips #chords #scales

Comments

Steve Schwartz

Thank you for providing the left-hand fingering.

Ron Bogdanoff

Excellent lesson. I am a terrible improviser because I was learning shapes and thinking shapes/boxes. So as you would expected my solos sounded like shapes and boxes, not musical. I recently forced myself to relearn arpeggios, scales, modes by voices. Started with dom7 arpeggio saying out loud the voices as I play 1-3-5-b7 backwards/forwards starting on the 3 then the 5 then the b7. Then move to a different position the the neck and instead of saying 'what is the shape for dom7 arpeggio here' I would just play the arpeggio saying 1-3-5-b7 and not think shape but think/hear voices. If I want a min7 just lower the 3rd 1/2 I do not need to learn a different shape because I am thinking voices. doing it this way for me has been a big breakthrough. I am applying my harmony/chord knowledge to single note soloing and that is working for me. I am doing the same with scales/modes I did same with natural minor (aeolian) and ionian and was getting much more musical trying to solo to Blue Bossa. Also voice leading through changes fell into place. On a side node the Mark Levine book has been helping tremendously

John Olenski

Superb lesson Alex. Appreciate all you do for us.

Jim Wingard

Thanks for another great lesson. The material you provide is exemplary.

Andrew Blackard

I am starting to practice saxophone again and All The Things You Are and All Of Me are in my curriculum. So I will get double use out of this lesson. Like Ron said, for too long I have memorized shapes and I need to practice arps by thinking intervals instead of shapes. So this lesson is exactly what I needed to practice and you showed exactly how I could do that. Thanks again, Alex!

John Canton

Wow this is an amazing lesson ALEX. You are best educator I have ever known. The way you articulate and layout your lessons cuts years off of learning. I only wish I had found you sooner. Thank you so much for this lesson.

Katie King

This is a great post Ron. For me it's a nice summary of the the things from this morning that I think finally sunk in. Reading it refreshes memory nicely, and it is also the kind of way I've been approaching learning this stuff too. The other thing from this lesson for me was the relationship between the relative minor and the b7. Cheers! =)

Jonathan Hubbard

Great lesson Alex, love the deep dives. There’s months of practice and experimentation there for us - really clearly presented and inspiring. Thank you

Alex Farran Guitar

Thank you for the kind words John, that means a lot to me! 🙏🏻

Alex Farran Guitar

It's my pleasure John, I love this instrument and am passionate about sharing any knowledge that can help to detangle the mystery! 🙏🏻

Alex Farran Guitar

Fantastic comment Ron, I'm glad it's all starting to fall into place for you through thinking more harmonically. That's really the end goal for all of us, to understand the harmonic motion of the music and outline that bigger shape in a musical way.

Pedro Monteiro

Hey Alex, thank you so much for this amazing lesson! I've sent you a DM here yesterday. Cheers

Katie King

Alex, what is the best way to understand "chord X is functioning as the nth interval of Y"? It is mentioned starting at roughly 0:17:00 where you're talking about the augmented (the F played over a C7)

Katie King

I think my curiosity has taken me above my current proficiency level :) I had already watched the "All the Things You Are" (key harmonizing) video before this Arpeggio Survival Guide lesson premier on Saturday. It went above my head at the time; I just watched it again, still goes above my head, but it seems to be getting clearer all the time. I'm not in a hurry and I will be enjoying the journey in the meantime =) Thanks Alex ❤

Jonathan Hubbard

Just a note to say how much this lesson and the previous ones on soloing around the blues arpeggios and A7 have together made such a difference to my playing. They have helped me overcome a block and given me so much more fluency and options at my fingers improvising with them - all down to some great lessons and tips. Keep up the great work and thank’s for all the effort you put into the examples and materials - they’re really appreciated

Alex Farran Guitar

Wow Jonathan, that's so good to hear! Funnily enough I plan to do a follow up to that one very soon.. may even film it this week!

Jonathan Hubbard

That’s great to hear Alex, it’s been a really fruitful and enjoyable pathway - happy to hear there might be more!

steve wardwell

Hi Alex: wonderful lesson, never realized I was arpeggiating when playing chords one note at a time. Regarding the chord chart for "all of me", is there a reason why C6 is noted as the beginning arpeggio while the video calls out CM7?