From our free, Jazz Guitar Lessons Daily Series: Lesson 46
Mondays - Triad Mastery Bootcamp
3/15/21
Today is our Triad Mastery Bootcamp lesson. This week we will be looking at some ideas for using major triads when we add a tension 7. Or what is most commonly referred to as a Maj7 arpeggio. Though, as with all melodic triad lessons, we’ll be breaking down these structure into its basic elements to give us more freedom for use.
Rather than thinking of this is simply a 1-3-5-7 arpeggio, let’s break it down to the major triad (for today’s lesson, G major) plus an addition F# note. It’s not going to matter too much for today’s riff, but the difference is helpful when we start doing our ear training tomorrow and using this structure to improvise melodically vs running up and down through the arpeggio.
For today, we’re going to break the arpeggio apart, insert some unexpected intervallic leaps, insert some chromaticism, and two changes of direction inside a single octave of this ‘arpeggio’. When we reach the next octave, the pattern starts over. However because the pattern is seven 1/8th notes long - one 1/8th note short of a full measure - the phrase is going to get displaced in each measure, making it hard to hear that all we’re doing is repeating the same series of notes.
Download the PDF to see the riff in tab and standard notation and try playing along with me. Take it slow at first. Then see if you can crank up your tempo.
Give it a shot… and happy practicing!
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