Chords for Frank Vignola Improvisation Lesson

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Using arpeggios in improvisation. _
This is a little tutorial on something
you can do to start applying arpeggios to _ improvisation
_ _ to make a more melodic sound.
_ So we know the triad, 1, 3, 5.
Very important.
All music harmony is either major or minor.
1, 3, 5 _ _ or _ _ _ _ flat 3.
1, [Gm] flat 3, 5, which makes it minor.
_ _ [G] OK.
So we have to know our triad arpeggio, our three note arpeggio.
1, 3, 5.
_ OK.
[F#] Then when we start adding extensions or substitutions,
that's adding a fourth note.
[G] 1, 3, [G] 5, major 7.
1, 3, 5, flat 7, which makes the dominant chord.
And so on and so forth.
So what I did for this lesson _ is to take the simple blues
progression, G [C] to C, [G] back to G.
_ [C] Then to C, [G]
back to G.
[D] Then D,
[C] C, _ _
[G] G.
OK.
[Em] The basic blues progression.
And what we're going to do is we're going to play 1, [A] _ 2, [Bm] 3, _ [D] 5.
_ [G] _ _ _
Right, there's 1, 3, 5.
Same as this, except we're using this position.
And we're going to go [A] 1, 2, 3, 5.
_ Then for [C] C, 1, [D]
2, 3, 5.
Right.
_ [C] _
_ We're adding the 2.
1, 2, 3, 5.
Then back to G.
_ [A] _ _ _ _
_ And then _ descent, 5, 3, [G] 2, 1.
Then to C.
And we start down here this time for the next two
bars because we're going to do a two octave [C] _ arpeggio.
1, 2, [Em] 3, 5.
And then again, [E] 1, 2, 3, 5. _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
And then back to [G] 1 for G.
[A] 1, 2, 3, 5.
5, 3, 2, [G] 1.
Now we go to D.
[D] _ _ _ _
Right, there's 1, 3, 5.
[E] _ And [D] there's 1, 2, 3, [E] 5.
_ Moveable, so we go [C] down to C.
[D] 1, 2, [Em] 3, 5. _
And back to the I chord, G.
[Bm] _ _ _
[G] _ And then on the G.
OK, in time, [F]
3, 4.
_ _ [B] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ 3, 4.
All right, so 1, 2, 3, 5.
Adding one note to the triad.
The second _ _ [A]
is also the ninth.
_ [E] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A]
But we're putting it as the second.
And [B] _ good _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[G] _ position to be in to know
[F#] you're in a good area for the chord that you're on as well.
OK, now that does sound like a pattern and like an exercise.
So if we add rhythm, _ _ add a little rhythm to this concept,
we can start to kind of sound like we're improvising.
If we do something as simple as instead of 1, [A] 2, [G] 3, 4,
we can go 1, _ _ _ [C] 1, _
[Em] _ _ _ _ 2.
And we have [E] ba, ba, [G] ba, ba, ba, ba.
[C] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ We can do a [C] slide.
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ Right, we can just do some offbeats too.
_ [B] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ Instead of [Am] ba, ba, [G] ba, ba, we go ba, ba, [D] ba, _ _ _ _ ba, [Bm] ba, ba, ba, ba,
ba, ba, [Em] ba, ba.
We can just do eighth notes.
Ba, ba, ba, ba, [D] ba, [Em] ba, ba, ba, ba.
Mix it up.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ Right, you see that, how those four notes could really
start to sound like something.
So the first step is to do the 1, 3, 5, and then add the 2.
[A] _
_ OK, then mix it up rhythmically.
OK, using offbeats and [E] different patterns, different rhythms
to make it sound like something. _ _