How to (and not to) practice arpeggios to improvise better in jazz

[@outinacornfield]

Excellent! Lots of truly unusual tips! Many thanks!

[@darrenmcgowen2705]

Great to see a new video from you and hope all is well!

[@robertomighty4562]

Wishing you good health and thank you for sharing your musical knowledge!

[@ilinskimusic]

Stay safe and healthy! Thank you for sharing! 🦋

[@adamguinnmusic5871]

Man I hope your health is good to go these days and it looks like you're at 2k subs now. Hopefully you are making your living here🙏

[@donlessnau3983]

Great info. Thanks very much. Well done. That's a lovely Eastman. It looks like my AR403 or AR372.

[@nilegypsy3311]

Thanks bro for sharing & get well soon, don’t worry everything will be alright.

[@boleofficial9291]

i hope your resoled your healt problems,and i wish you all the best. Thanks for the lesson

[@przemyslawacewicz9364]

get well mate!

[@shuklajayant]

I wish you good health

[@georgesember9069]

This lesson just popped up on my cell phone. Thanks for posting and sharing. Though I write a lot of music, I’m not an improviser though I’d like to be one. I’ve recently been looking into arpeggios and benefited from your suggestions.

[@GiordanoDeStefani]

Hi Paul... Just find your channel in YT and it has been very usefull. Thanks, and I hope you are well now

[@spivvo]

Good lesson, wish you good health.

[@neilgoh3179]

Lesson starts at 3:11.

[@markrode4530]

Thanks. Very helpful video.

[@Len_J_]

Hi this is great thanks, nice playing. Could you do a video on explaining the G blues subs you did? The video suddenly jumped to this technical playing, would be great to know more

[@bawseeeee602]

Awesome ! new sub

[@ericsearcy8939]

In my prayers 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@kymcarter589]

Love your stuff

[@ontroadagain]

Great lesson! What's your video and audio recording setup please?

[@LarrySiden]

How do manage to mute those strings when you sweep?

[@PaulHofreiter]

Personally I use the thumb part of my palm because it sticks out quite a bit. This part of my palm is usually lightly touching the strings to reduce feedback anyway (not needed in the living room but still something that is muscle memory from louder playing). This part of the palm is usually naturally one or two strings behind whichever string the pick is on so it naturally muted as I go. However this isn’t needed because you can deaden strings as you sweep purely from slightly letting the pressure off of each string after you play it. So for example if you were sweeping a minor triad from string 4, the fingering being 3 1 1 1 with one not on each string, rather than leave the pressure down as I sweep I would life the pressure off of each string as I go, or add pressure if it were an upward sweep (notes descending, arm moving upward). This is easiest to start practicing with a maj7 arpeggio from string 4, fingered 4 3 2 1 with one finger on each string because there aren’t any barres to worry about and you can focus on the pressure of each string as you go individually.

[@LarrySiden]

What about up-sweeping? I find that much harder, perhaps due to how I hold the pick.

[@PaulHofreiter]

Sweeping upwards is harder in execution but essentially the reverse of sweeping down without the benefit of gravity helping (and actively working against you sweeping upward). Any pick angle sweeping down would be reverse for upward sweeps, any arm or wrist movements etc. - a mirror or device recording can help so that (if your downward sweep is ok) you can mimic the downward sweep while going up with all of these things just reversed. It will take some adjustment and getting used to it eventually with focus both will feel equally natural.

[@nilegypsy3311]

Sorry for my previous comment, just saw the video hope everything is fine with u bro.

[@alward5678]

Praying for your health

[@n00bie96]

Aw man, did you really quit KZbin? You had so much potential, just invest in editing and your channel will take off...

[@PaulHofreiter]

n00bie just been having some rough times, still teaching but hoping to get back to KZbin sooner rather than later

[@n00bie96]

@@PaulHofreiter looking forward to it man

[@vizzo7]

Is your father Anton Hofreiter?

[@6strings5904]

Eastman?

[@davidchin1828]

Looks like it. I have one and really enjoy it. You have one?

[@jack6136]

Demonetized? One thousand subscribers? I really don’t like the KZbin model.

[@pipotherium]

Get well