Jazz Blues Arpeggio

This lesson contains five free guitar studies for beginners that outline the use of arpeggios over a Bb jazz blues progression. There are different kinds of jazz blues progressions. The one that is used in this eBook is built with a secondary dominant (VI7), a passing diminished (#IVdim7) and a turnaround (I7, VI7, iim7, V7).

There are many ways of using arpeggios over a jazz blues chord changes. This lessons focuses on the basics, that is to say that we will be playing :

Diminished triads over the VI7b9 chord.
Major triads over the I7 chord.
Minor triads over the iim7 chord.
Dominant (7, 9, 13) arpeggios over the dominant chords (I7, IV7 and V7).
Minor arpeggios (m7 and m9) over the minor chord (iim7).
Diminished arpeggios over the diminished chord (#IVdim7) and the dominant flat 9 chord (VI7).

Start at a slow tempo and practice with a metronome as you increase the speed over time.
Sing the root for each chord as you play through the progression.
Memorize the study, taking the music off the page and into your ears.
Play each study in different keys.