Maj7 Licks are a great way to study and expand your vocabulary. It is often difficult to keep coming up with fresh ideas for solos and not play the same lines all the time. Looking for new arpeggios is a great way to expand on your vocabulary for jazz licks. It is important that we always keep developing new options, such as arpeggios to play solid melodies over the jazz chords that we solo over.


In this lesson I am going to go over 10 different arpeggios that you can use in your Maj7 lines. All the examples are played overa Cmaj7 and I chose to keep it in the 8th position just to make it easy to mix up the different ideas. I decided to keep it all major so not any Lydian sounds. I can do that in another lesson if you are interested.

You can download a PDF and read the article on my blog via this link: http://jenslarsen.nl/10-arpeggios-maj7-chord/


Shell Voicings as arpeggios lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4yFt_tt-UA

Drop2 voicings as arpeggios lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnNEwNgFZiw

Quartal Harmony in solos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0JLEU4xhd8


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