Arpeggios

Phil G

Looking to find a few freebies to get going, anyone know of a decent link. Had a look around and it's mighty frustrating!

Jazzaferri

What ate you looking for, notes tab

What level are you at

Phil G

Played guitar for nearly 20 years and just recently got into gypsy jazz. However as I am a self taught heathen I can't read music and just about can read tab. I think I need a few pointers to give me an insight. Played in bands for best part of 15 years but literally don't know the names of any chords or their placing in the structures etc., as you can probably guess I'm a bit lost but going from the music I've been used to playing (rockabilly), this is a hugely different ball game and hope that a few pointers and warm up techniques may be of some use to me.
Cheers again

lacrossehotclub

As far as freebies you could check out Tim Robbinson's site (thanks Tim!).

http://timrobinsonguitar.com/lessons/basicarpeggios/basic.html

Stephane Wrembel's book/cd has a great section on arppegios that goes further in depth and outlines a study plan. Well worth the investment.

http://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/method-books/stephane-wrembel-getting-into-gypsy-jazz-guitar--wremble.html

cheers,
Steve

thrip

lacrossehotclub wrote:

As far as freebies you could check out Tim Robbinson's site (thanks Tim!).

http://timrobinsonguitar.com/lessons/basicarpeggios/basic.

Thanks Steve! This is a new section of my website and I'll be adding more arpeggios over the next few weeks, so if it's of interest it might be worth checking back from time to time.

Tim

Passacaglia

Timely, sorry to piggyback, but it's what I'm dealing with now, and for the time being. Tim's site has been an extraordinary help - thank you again, Tim. So has Stephane's book, and Gonzalo's lessons, as taught on Denis's DC school - thank you to all of these people as well.

I don't know if this is an optimal way forward or not, and I've obviously wrestled with this a bit, but I've decided to narrow focus and work to master a few things well, rather than continue working on several tunes, and several arps, past a basic few. Taking a cue from Gonzalo and from you, Tim, I'm making a study of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, and working the arps as shown on your site; I'm also working just three patterns - M, m, V7, as shown by Gonzalo on the DC site.

I began with Stephane's book, but feel until I am able to do these basic, few runs at speed (Tim, I clocked your Anything but Love arp etude at about 190 bpm), and move them around freely, at will, across various keys, it won't be that much use to continue through Stephane's book, adding in arp extensions/colors. Basically, even though DIJ looms and I'm tempted to try to acquire several melodies and more extended arps, it's basically a singular focus and intensive over extensive study.

Anyway, fwiw, one, humble perspective on arp training.

Jazzaferri

IMO mastering one thing (being able to play it as one would use one's fork) before moving on is THE most productive learning experience.

Passacaglia

Again, I hope I'm not hijacking your thread, Phil, but jazz, that personally means a good deal to me to hear you say this. I suspected this was your bent, and you've been really helpful otherwise, significantly so; just wanted to say thank you for this additional nod on a way forward.

Steveareno

Thanks Tim, for sharing the apreggios. This kind of clear, straightfoward stuff is very helpful. There's almost too much information out there (which is a good thing) and deciding what to save and use can be confusing. Gotta pick and choose the stuff that makes sense to my feeble old brain, and gets thru the rather dense cranial matter. My fake book is getting pretty thick.
Swang on,