![]() ![]() Whatever style of jazz improvisation you aspire to master, bebop is an essential rite of passage and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better travel guide than Sheryl Bailey’s 50 Essential Bebop Guitar Licks You MUST Know. Fortunately, the language of jazz improvisation has far fewer dialects but you still have to pick one and learn its vocabulary, grammar and phonology - aka licks, harmony and sonic qualities. Travel there might require a suitcase full of phrasebooks just to book a hotel and order a meal. Also consider breaking up the arpeggios by using the Pivot in different ways.820 different languages and dialects are spoken in Papua New Guinea. You could also try to include some chromatic notes and/or neighbour tones. Next, try to create new lines of your own using different notes to connect the arpeggios. Tune Up uses only II – V – I progressions so it’s a great place to start. Also try playing them over a simple tune like “Tune Up” by Miles Davis. Also note that I’ve changed position as we are starting a 3rd higher.Īs a next step, learn these jazz lines in different keys and in different positions. In this example I’ve used some chromatic notes as well.Īnd another example. Now let’s add some notes to connect the arpeggios. This example illustrates a slightly different possibility. By using a Pivot, the entire line fits nicely within a position. Had we not used the Pivot, the range of the line would be much greater and a change of position would be needed. When an arpeggio changes direction this is called a “Pivot.” The Pivot allows you to keep your arpeggio within a specified range. Notice the change in octave in bar 3 for the C note. Next thing we need are some 8th notes to fill in the empty spaces. ![]() Let’s start with a simple II – V7 – I chord progression in the key of C major. In this case we will omit the root and use the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th. There are 4 note arpeggios with no extensions (root, 3rd, 5th and 7th) as well as 4 note arpeggios which include the 9th. To begin, let’s look at some 4 note arpeggios. We will start with the idea that since the style calls for lots of flowing 8th notes, we will build improvisational lines that use mostly 8th notes. This is especially true for tempos that are medium to up. ![]() When we look at a transcription of a bebop style solo, one of the first things we notice is that there are a lot of 8th notes. Arpeggios are in fact a chord played melodically or horizontally as opposed to all at once or vertically. Arpeggios sound excellent in jazz lines partly because they give us the exact sound of the chord we are improvising on. In this post I’ll be exploring how we can create jazz or bebop lines using arpeggios. ![]()
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