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Guitar Arpeggios

It is easy to forget how important arpeggios can be in improvisation. These small melodic units will really help outline the harmony and chord progressions in a song making your solos sound more composed and thought out. Arpeggios should always be part of your improvisations if you want to sound more melodic and professional.

All arpeggios come from scales and the chords they produce. You can use a Cmaj7 arpeggio over a Cmaj chord to really outline the sound. Try to find some of these arpeggios within the basic scales. For example the C major scale contains the following arpeggios

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