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Improvise over any chord by knowing the arpeggio shape inside and out

Teach how to improvise over chords by internalizing arpeggio shapes and chord tones, starting with major triad forms and step-by-step exercises.

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Hello fellow guitarists! Today I'm starting a new free lesson series about improvising that I think you might like. The best way to improvise confidently and creatively over any chord type is by knowing where the chord tones are. And I mean really knowing them so that at any moment we can choose to target or avoid the actual notes of the chord we're on. No matter what we want to sound like stylistically we must see chord tones on the fretboard with absolute clarity. Sounds great right? But how do we get to that point? We practice melodic arpeggio shapes. And we practice them with a series of specific steps and exercises to get us improvising with them right away. That's what my new chord tone mapping lesson series is all about. In this series I'm teaching how to work on the arpeggio forms of the twelve chord types needed to improvise over any progression. If soloing over chord changes is one of your goals then I'm confident that this series will help you. This first lesson in the series is on the major triad. Don't worry, we'll get to all those crazy chords later too, but sounding great on a major triad is an important first step. [Here's the

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