4 Easy Exercises to Master Any Jazz

Chord Progression
Learning how to play jazz guitar means learning how to use scales, arpeggios and patterns in
order to outline each chord in a jazz chord progression or jazz tune.

While this can be a difficult task to tackle at first, with a little practice and the right exercises,
you’ll be able to jam over your favorite tunes and hit every chord change along the way.

One of my favorite ways to practice digging into chord changes is to work on one-octave
arpeggio shapes through any new tune I’m learning in the woodshed.

By isolating each chord in the progression, and using easy to play arpeggio fingerings to dig
into each chord in the change, you will be able to get the sound of the progression in your ears,
get the arpeggio shapes under your fingers, and allow yourself to solo over each chord in the
tune, which is a big step when learning how to play jazz guitar.

In today’s lesson I have put together a video for you talking about 4 exercises you can do in
order to get your fingers and ears around the arpeggios for any new tune you are working on in
the practice room.

First, check out the video and then you can refer to the tab/notation below to follow along with
each exercise as I demonstrate them over a jazz blues in Bb chord progression.

4 Jazz Chord Progression Outlines Video

http://youtu.be/aBpMs64A_TU
Chord Outline 1 – Ascending Arpeggios

Chord Outline 2 – Descending Arpeggios

Chord Outline 3 – Alternating Arpeggios 1

Chord Outline 4 – Alternating Arpeggios 2