Arpeggios: What Others DON'T Teach YOU

Arpeggios can sound contrived and boring so easily. In this video, I teach you 3 easy arpeggios to play over a major 7 chord in a way that actually sounds good, using this concept I call the "language recipe." Click the links below for the PDF for this lesson and more.
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[@ChaseMaddox]

What jazz fundamentals do you struggle with learning?

[@kilgoretrout321]

How to practice them so that they become part of my everyday skill set

[@anthonyshaw8698]

Improvising through chord changes🤔 Are you always thinking about the notes in each chord when improvising, or you just go for broke, so to speak. Lol

[@dextershumba7262]

@@anthonyshaw8698 I've played for years but I've never been able to get to play over changes. I struggle to visualize the fretboard and put meaningful ideas together to create some sort of cohesive melody over the changes

[@anthonyshaw8698]

@@dextershumba7262 Some music theory can definitely help with that.

[@jackgriffith9229]

Musicians! This music lesson is outstanding! This teacher has created practical instruction that can be used immediately and the focus and clarity of purpose is Brilliant! If I only had a teacher like this years ago I would have advanced to much higher level with music and guitar 🎸!! Enjoy!!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you so much for the endorsement, Jack! 🤘

[@terryquinn2042]

Excellent information. Thank you.

[@JazzStrat781]

Fantastic video Chase 👍🎸 awesome content as always brother, hope you have a great weekend

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you, as always! 🙏

[@Mallett98-]

Love your lessons… I’m enjoying learning a different style of music than I have been playing the last 20 years. Keep up the great work!

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Austin! 🤘What style of music have you been playing?

[@GiovanniBottaMuteWinter]

I have been working through some of the Troy Grady material and I do struggle with applying it to jazz vocabulary. I would love to see more of that applied to enclosures or more complicated concepts.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Have you seen some of recent videos on bebop scales and 3-note approaches?

[@vincenzopriore4534]

Very Interresant and useful top teacher thanks very mouch

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re welcome Vincenzo!

[@solomann940]

Thanks for the lesson 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching 🤘

[@satchrules101]

Great lesson ! Thank you 🙏

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re welcome! 🤘

[@valmontsibbo]

Awesome lessons Chase, great explanation and thinking. I really like the consistency and picking strategies. I am currently working through your 3 month program which is really excellent. I am hoping after a while the consistency in picking builds speed and accurate performance. After 3 weeks I am starting to see improvmenst already.

[@ChaseMaddox]

That's awesome, David! Thank you! I'm super happy that the "60 Master ii-V-I Lines" ebook program is working so well for you and you're already seeing improvement. 🤘

[@fritzd84]

Excellent

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Fritz! 🤘

[@jm.101]

Love your videos. Slight suggestion to match the audio of other KZbin videos: I find myself having to turn your videos up. Maybe boost your levels a bit? Great video, appreciate the content.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you! Are you noticing that on the recent videos too? I’m using one mic to capture voice and guitar, so if I adjust a bit higher sometimes the guitar peaks. I’ll keep adjusting it 👍

[@jm.101]

@@ChaseMaddox just watched your Wes Montgomery video. Levels are better but still could be a little bit higher. I don’t know but maybe compression could help?

[@eduardoobregon9466]

Hey! Awesome work I like you tried in another video Triads but in the E,B,G strings There are different patterns that i like to see and how you work in these strings

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thank you Eduardo! 🙏 Can you explain more what you’d like to see? I’m not sure I understand.

[@eduardoobregon9466]

@@ChaseMaddox you’ve got in the 5th fret in third and second string C and E right? and in the first string 3rd fret you’ve got G and 7th fret B You’ve got CMaj7 right? And thats 1, 1, 2 pattern In the same chord and same strings you’ve. 2, 1, 1 and. 1, 2, 1 patterns I like to know if you’ve some work for these strings for major, minor and inversions too

[@eduardoobregon9466]

Im recently discover your channel and help me to much

[@jimdolinski8655]

I'm hearing some George Benson. Great lesson.

[@ChaseMaddox]

That's my guy! Glad you dug the lesson 🤘

[@jimdolinski8655]

@@ChaseMaddox re Benson, is that why your changing your fretting hand to include more third finger than pinkie?

[@ChaseMaddox]

@@jimdolinski8655 partially that, but also because my pinky is shorter than average and my ring finger is longer than average.

[@anthonyshaw8698]

Excellent Lesson!!! What type of amp/audio system are you using for your guitar. I'm about to purchase some more equipment. Ordered me an Ibanez jazz box similar to yours. Waiting on its arrival. Back ordered. Thanks🤗

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Anthony! I have a video this week about all of the equipment I use including amp/audio/pedals/guitar etc...

[@anthonyshaw8698]

@@ChaseMaddox Fantastic!! Thanks, I'll look for it👍👍

[@bones8057]

Cool thanks.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for watching! 🤘

[@anthonyshaw8698]

What gauge strings do you use, and do you use flatwound or roundwound? Also, do you like the metal bridge or wooden. Just bought an Ibanez AF95 hollowbody. Came with a wooden bridge🤔 Thanks 👍👍

[@ChaseMaddox]

I use Daddario roundwound .10s. Can’t speak to the difference between metal or wooden bridges since I don’t have much experience with how that changes the sound.

[@anthonyshaw8698]

@@ChaseMaddox 10/4 Wow!! Great sound with 10's. I figured you were using at least 11's or 12's Thanks for the response👍👍

[@jeffjfindley4802]

You're doing great work here! Curious... Why do you think it is that lines sound better when the 3rd or 7th is on the downbeat as opposed to 1st or 5th?

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks Jeff! I think there’s TOO much consonance by having the root fall on the downbeat so often.

[@JESL_TheOnlyOne]

There's also a bit of a benefit to avoid 'rootlike' thinking too much. The notes don't care what inversion they're in, so, avoiding root fixating, harmonically speaking, isn't a bad thing, necessarily. At least that's how I kind of look at things. Furthermore, Yes, E2 in this case *is* a note in the arpeggio, so... it's always worth it to be aware of the full voicing of things, and I'm a bit of a minimalist, frankly, so... don't forget the introduced accidental, either; all of these are common techniques, really, to make lines come out on desired beats. The Bebop scale is probably the most well-known example.

[@whimpypatrol5503]

An example of a nicely phrased arpeggio at the start (and maybe a bad or boring one) would have helped. Most player work and don't have much time between screaming kids, mowing the lawn and fielding thru videos.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Based on your comment, WhimpyPatrol is an excellent username 👌

[@brennanbrooker]

in master 251 book are the licks transposed or are there 60+ different licks

[@ChaseMaddox]

60 different licks. Part of the point is that each of the 12 keys has 5 unique lines 👍

[@mabblers]

Seem pretty tough to learn, all the arpeggios, triads, major scales, modes, pentatonic's, and harmonic scales. Is there a point it becomes overwhelming. Do you know of this, and if so how long did it take you to learn it all?

[@ChaseMaddox]

You’re trying to do wayyy too much and getting overwhelmed. It’s super common, but check out what I offer at www.chasesguitaracademy.com 🤘

[@javierrodriguez4218]

Focus on learning triads inside out, including voice-leading them. Then use triads as scaffolds to learn everything else.

[@mbmillermo]

Why isn't it better to use downstrokes on the strong beats consistently? I strongly prefer to do that but I could be convinced. I'm not understanding why you switch it around by inserting a double downstroke. It makes more sense when it is a sweep, but what about the double downstroke between the first two measures at 6:00? Is that just a typo? You have four consecutive downstrokes including two on the same string.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Thanks for the comment, Mike. My full reasoning on why I use the picking I do can be found in this video if you haven't seen it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5_FeJhqeNlmgrM. The double downstroke on the same string you saw at measure 6:00 IS a typo! Thank you for catching that 🙏 It's been fixed in the PDF download as well.

[@mbmillermo]

The one at 7:50 sounds like it is played with the initial low E as a strong beat. Why doesn't that start with an upstroke? I do love your stuff, this included, but the picking issue here is bugging me. The harmonic/melodic concepts are great.

[@ChaseMaddox]

Did you watch the picking video I linked to? That'll help me understand what context you have. I no longer correlate my picking with strong or weak beats, but instead with the number of notes on a string. Going from low notes to high notes in this picking style you have more options to the same goal. I could've started with an upstroke on the low E, then a downstroke for the next note, and then another downstroke to start the next string. Whether you started the phrase with a downstroke or upstroke, your third note would be a downstroke in this method

[@mbmillermo]

@@ChaseMaddox -- Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I was in Ecuador for a month and just came home to find this tab in my browser! I watched the other video. I have also seen Troy Grady's videos. It looks like you've taken his ideas and adapted them to a jazz improv, which is a great idea. I'm surprised that it works out so well, but I believe you. So I'll buy some of your books and I'll study the method. Thanks!

[@ChaseMaddox]

I’d say that’s accurate. The Master Arpeggios Book Vol. 1 is best to practice the picking and fundamentals, and the 60 Master ii-V-I Lines ebook is best to picking and lines 🤘

[@c4tubo]

If you are starting the "CM7" arpeggio downbeat on its third (E), and ending on its 7th (B), then aren't you really playing the arpeggio of the first inversion of CM7, i.e. E minor flat 6th arpeggio, ending on E's 5th? Calling it the M7 arpeggio seems misleading because to my ear it sounds strongly minor, a Phrygian 6th. Of course its compatible with CM7, but it doesn't sound like a M7 to me.

[@GuitarBluesHury]

I do the same but I use Minor Pentatonic scale instead arpeggios. Thanks!

[@ChaseMaddox]

That works well too! 🤘

[@icarusi]

Is this style brisé?