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Jazz Guitar Arpeggio Exercises

This document provides a bluesy arpeggio and chord exercise with an accompanying backing track for guitar practice. It teaches how to play F9 and Bb13 arpeggios and chords. Diagrams show the notes in each chord and arpeggio. A variation on the arpeggios is used to make the exercise more interesting. The ending uses the F minor blues scale. A link is provided to further lessons on jazz blues guitar.

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Jazz Guitar Arpeggio Exercises

This document provides a bluesy arpeggio and chord exercise with an accompanying backing track for guitar practice. It teaches how to play F9 and Bb13 arpeggios and chords. Diagrams show the notes in each chord and arpeggio. A variation on the arpeggios is used to make the exercise more interesting. The ending uses the F minor blues scale. A link is provided to further lessons on jazz blues guitar.

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Bluesy Arpeggio & Chord Exercise (+ Backing Track)

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October 9, 2013

When practicing something new, it’s always a good idea to put the thing you’re
practicing in a musical context. Often when I try to incorporate a new concept or
fingering into my playing, I make a little tune out of the new material.

Here’s an example of such a tune. This exercise will teach you how to play 9 and 13
arpeggios, as well as their respective chords.

Audio & Notation/Tabs

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Backing Track
Here’s the backing track you can use to practice:

Chord, Scale & Arpeggio Diagrams


F9 Chord

The first chord and arpeggio is an F9, which is an F7 + the tension 9:

F A C Eb G

1 3 5 b7 9

Here’s the chord (1st diagram) and arpeggio diagram (2nd diagram). In the exercise I use
variations of the arpeggio to make it more interesting:

Bb13 Chord

The second type of chord and arpeggio is the Bb13 (see bar 9), which is an Bb7 + the
tension 13:

Bb D F Ab G

1 3 5 b7 13

Here’s the chord (1st diagram) and arpeggio diagram (2nd diagram). In the exercise I use
variations of the arpeggio to make it more interesting:

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The scale I use to end the tune is the F minor blues scale (bar 15):

Do you want to learn how to make


your blues playing sound like jazz?
Check out our Introduction to Jazz
Blues Guitar series.

Bluesy Arpeggio & Chord Exercise (+ Backing Track) was last modified: May 5th, 2018 by
Dirk Laukens

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