How to Play 7 Chord Arpeggios in Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com. I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be studying beginning jazz guitar. Now we've played some 7 chord voicing played as actual chords, majors and minors and dominant 7 chords but next we are going to try some 7 chord arpeggio. Once again, the same theories and formulas are going to apply. Arpeggio's is just a broken chord meaning that the notes of the chord are played individually. Let's start off discussing a couple of major 7 arpeggios. Here we are going to start off doing an A major 7 arpeggio. Follow alone closely, it is just based out of that major scale that we played before the 2 octave A major scale. We are going to have a root, a 3rd, a 5th, a 7th, root, 3rd, 5th * 7th and root. Play it. There's a major 7 arpeggio. Now the same thing applied to over the 5th string here. We are going to have a root, 3rd, 5th and then I shift up here, 7th, root, 3rd, shift it up again, 5th, 7th and root. The D major 7 chord arpeggio is both of those major 7 arpeggio's are movable arpeggio patterns. "