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Improvising with Arpeggios
Outline the Changes Like a Pro: Master Arpeggio-Based Soloing!
What You Will Learn
- How to use arpeggios to follow chord changes with clarity
- How to build melodic lines that sound like real jazz vocabulary
- How to apply arpeggios to the most common progressions
- How to connect arpeggios through smooth voice leading
- How to use rhythmic ideas and accents to create authentic phrasing
- How to add classic jazz language and create your own lines
- How to improvise with confidence in any key and position
- How to transform scale based improvising into musical storytelling
Who This Course Is For
- Intermediate guitarists who want to improvise with confidence
- Players tired of sounding like they are running scales
- Students who cannot yet follow chord changes smoothly
- Guitarists wanting a clear, step by step method to build real jazz vocabulary
- Anyone who wants to make improvisation feel natural rather than stressful
- Players who want to connect the music in their mind to their fingers
Course Description
Are you wandering through scales as you improvise, hoping to hit the right notes?
Learn to outline the harmony with clarity and confidence through the power of arpeggios.
In this special deep dive course, FretDojo’s Founder Greg O’Rourke gives you a systematic approach to arpeggio-based improvisation that will give you the power to “make the changes” and target chord tones as you solo.
You’ll learn the essential arpeggio shapes across the entire fretboard, and exactly how to apply these ideas over ii-V-I progressions, turnarounds, and other essential chord progressions you’ll face regularly as a jazz player.
The result?
Solos that sound like you know exactly where you’re going and why – because you finally do.
No more hoping you’ll magically hit the right notes. Just confident, musical improvisation on guitar that outlines the harmony like a pro.
Click here to see the lesson list
Module 1: Arpeggios as a Foundation
- Lesson 1: Why Arpeggios Work
- Lesson 2: Core Arpeggio Shapes
- Lesson 3: First Improvisation Steps
- Lesson 4: Assignment 1
Module 2: Applying Arpeggios to Jazz Progressions
- Lesson 5: Arpeggios over the ii V I
- Lesson 6: Voice Leading Essentials
- Lesson 7: Classic Jazz Language with Arpeggios
- Lesson 8: Assignment 2
Module 3: Rhythmic Creativity and Phrasing
- Lesson 9: Rhythmic Motifs and Repetition
- Lesson 10: Articulation and Swing Feel
- Lesson 11: Melodic Shapes that Sound like Jazz
- Lesson 12: Assignment 3
Module 4: Expanding Your Improvisation Tools
- Lesson 13: Adding Passing Tones and Color Tones
- Lesson 14: Combining Arpeggios with Scale Ideas
- Lesson 15: Developing Your Own Vocabulary
- Lesson 16: Assignment 4
Module 5: Putting It All Together
- Lesson 17: Full Improvisation Walkthrough
- Lesson 18: Tune Based Application
- Lesson 19: Final Concepts and Review
- Lesson 20: Final Performance Assignment
About the Author
Greg O Rourke
Greg O Rourke is an award winning Australian guitarist with a Bachelor of Music Honors degree from the Australian National University School of Music. A former classical guitarist who later devoted years to decoding jazz improvisation, Greg developed a thoughtful and structured approach to learning jazz that has helped thousands of players worldwide.
His clear teaching style, warm presentation, and step by step method have made Fret Dojo one of the most trusted jazz guitar learning platforms online. Greg has been featured on Jazz Guitar Online, Takelessons, and Fundamental Changes, and is the author of the international bestseller The Easy Guide To Chord Melody Guitar.
Greg’s mission is to make jazz guitar accessible to anyone with curiosity and a willingness to learn.
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