Arpeggiating Chords to Break Scale Boxes
Music Theory: Level 3
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4m 52s
Working on sounding more musical with scales is an ongoing process, as it’s easy to get stuck in the habit of simply playing up and down various positions in a somewhat robotic fashion. While this is where everyone starts while learning to improvise, it isn’t where you have to remain. Arpeggiating chords is a way to not only simplify the note choices you have, it’s a way to target certain notes of a chord to highlight different harmonic colors in the progression you’re playing over. In this example, we’ll look at the chords of Harmonic Minor to outline how to break out of scale boxes you may be stuck in.
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