Chord Melody Made Simple (Part 4): 7th Chord Arpeggios

[00:00:00][music] [music] [music] [music] >> Welcome to Chord Melody Made Simple.

[00:00:22]This is part four. This series is all about [music] step-by-step progress towards arranging chord melodies and understanding >> [music] >> the absolute fundamentals of all of the ingredients for how to do this. I don't just want to give you another flashy arrangement here, press this fret here, press this fret here. We are starting from the beginning, the scales, the chords through the keys, the arpeggios, really getting these things down or at least understanding what it takes to get them down and having all of the steps for yourself. So, this is part four.

[00:00:51]There is a link to the entire series in the description, so check that out if you want to see any of the other lessons. I'm Jared Borkowski from soundguitarlessons.com.

[00:01:01]Let's do it. In this lesson, we are going to do more arpeggios. We are going to do the seventh chord arpeggios. Now, it depends on what kind of music you want to play, but if you're doing anything that has seventh chords in it, you're going to need to see those very clearly, not just only triad chords.

[00:01:16]Some of these chords might be less useful to you than others depending on what you're interested in arranging, but this is just such great stuff to map out. So, we're doing the arpeggio exercises, same from last time. It's all about the exercises. It's all about the milestones. Your learning happens from the practice. We're going to play the arpeggios of all the chords through the key as seventh chords, saying the note names, saying the chord tone numbers, and be able to do it in time. Everything you need visually to follow along with graphics, fretboard diagrams, tabs, anything like that for this whole series will be on the screen of all the videos, so you'll have everything you need. But, if you do want the official Chord Melody Made Simple workbook, which I have created has everything in one place in one big PDF booklet. You can get that by becoming a premium supporter. Just go to soundguitarlessons.com/join or use the link in the top of the description. Uh but if you're not interested in that, totally fine. Like I said, everything will be on the screen for you. Okay, saying note names. Now, when I review this stuff and when I practice this stuff, I I go through every chord and I do it three times through all the all the chords. For you, just be able to do it at least once through every chord. So, [music] C major 7, do the arpeggio saying the note names, and then you'll do D minor 7, the full arpeggio saying the note names, and you can go really slow, but don't make a mistake. So, if you make a mistake, you have to start over and try to get the whole thing. Again, I did it three times in a row, all the chords. Um and it took a while, and I enjoy that kind of practice. If you can learn to enjoy that kind of practice, you will go very, very far. So, let's just go through the demonstrations for you. Here's C major 7, E G [music] B C E G B C E G G E C B G E C B [music] G E. D minor 7, F A C D F A C D F.

[00:03:10]F D [music] C A F D C A F. Okay, so slow down where you need to your where your brain is like, "What is going on?"

[00:03:18]Right? Do it really slow if you need to.

[00:03:20]E minor 7, E G [music] B D E G [singing] B D E G.

[00:03:28]G E D >> [music] >> B G E D B G E. It's a brain buster. My teacher tried to have me do this when I was like a teenager, and I never did it.

[00:03:39]Never did it till more much more recently. And now I see, "Oh wow, this is actually quite beneficial for a lot of reasons." And it also is going to make it so much easier. You're really mapping it out in a in a way and acknowledging where the notes repeat.

[00:03:52]Where when we just play shapes, we don't often acknowledge where they repeat.

[00:03:55]Even though they sound the same an octave away, saying them really lets that sink in. So so beneficial.

[00:04:00]F major 7 E F A C E F A C E F F E C A [music] F E C A F E G 7 F G >> [music] >> B D F G B D F G G [music] F D B G F D B G F And this is hard right now cuz I didn't sleep enough last night, so I'm like, "Wow, really shows how challenging it can be." A [music] minor 7 is next. E G A C E G A C [music] E G G E C A G E C A G E And the last one is B half diminished or B minor 7 flat 5.

[00:04:45]Different [music] labels for the exact same chord. F A B D F A B D F F D B A [singing] F D >> [music] >> B A F. Once you say it through once, it's kind of nice cuz you can just repeat what you said again. So that's labeling them all with letters. Okay, now we got to do the chord tone numbers and yes, the letters are helpful. The chord tone numbers are even more important. The chord tone numbers are how we find the relationship to melodies against a root or against a chord. Okay, so we got to know this. So here's C major 7. 3 5 7 1 3 5 7 1 3 5 5 3 1 7 5 [music] 3 1 7 5 3 D minor 7 flat 3 [music] 5 flat 7 1 flat 3 5 flat 7 1 flat 3 flat 3 1 flat 7 5 flat 3 1 flat 7 5 [music] flat 3 E minor 7 1 flat 3 5 flat 7 1 flat 3 5 flat 7 1 flat 3 flat 3 1 flat 7 5 flat 3 [music] 1 flat 7 5 flat 3 1 F major 7 7 1 3 5 7 1 3 5 [music] 7 1 1 7 5 3 1 7 5 3 1 7 G 7 G dominant 7 flat 7 1 3 5 [music] flat 7 1 3 5 flat 7 1 1 flat 7 5 3 1 flat 7 5 3 1 [music] flat 7 A minor 7 5 flat 7 1 flat [music] 3 5 flat 7 1 flat 3 5 flat 7 flat 7 5 flat 3 1 flat 7 5 flat 3 [music] 1 flat 7 5 and B half diminished flat 5 this one's a mouthful and and annoying to say but you got to do it flat 5 flat 7 1 flat [music] 3 flat 5 flat 7 1 flat 3 flat 5 flat 5 flat 3 1 flat 7 flat 5 flat 3 1 [music] flat 7 flat 5 I hope you're appreciating what's going on here I said in my last video this is not popular stuff to do on YouTube I'm doing it for you cuz I want you to have the skills that I know you desire and very few resources truly give us just the hard deep boring stuff that we got to do right so if this is for you if you're willing to practice this it's going to really take you a long way and hope you can feel like this is stuff that we kind of know we should know we kind of know we should be working on drilling memorizing but we don't know why exactly or can't feel like when is this going to be applicable well that's why I'm doing this in this type of series you know where we're going we're doing chord melody arrangements I'm showing you examples at the beginning of the beginnings of the videos but this is going to map out so much more for you and in my course chord melody magic I teach chord melody all over the guitar in multiple styles and and arrangement approaches and voicing styles and everything like that. So, this is really just the fundamental stuff, but all of these principles apply to all of that as well. So, I'm really just wanting to get this foundation under you that can benefit you a great deal. We got to do them in time now and I always want to practice what I preach. I want to demonstrate what I assign you. So, here we go. 1 2 3 4 C major 7 [music] >> [music] >> D minor 7 >> [music] >> E minor 7 >> [music] >> F major 7 >> [music] >> G 7 >> [music] >> A minor 7 >> [music] >> B half diminished >> [music] >> And lay out C if you [music] want to. Those are the assignments for this video. You don't have to like master master master this stuff. Just even being aware of it, you're already way ahead of the game.

[00:09:08]Trying it in an organized way with clear milestones you're trying to practice for will give you the best quality practice you have ever had. And so, it's not necessarily about perfecting it. We're actually never perfect at it. We've actually never actually mastered something, but have these exercises in a little bank of knowing exactly what to practice, give them your absolute best effort and it will help you so much and you can continue to move along with the lessons even if you haven't perfected them. So, I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.