Creative Bass Lines: Increasing Fingerboard Knowledge – Part 3: Minor Arpeggios
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Continuing our series on increasing fingerboard knowledge, here’s the accompanying Minor Arpeggio Exercises to play all across the fingerboard.
This is the same principle as the Major types. I’ve given you a number of variations to try, and you’ll see this gives you more options when playing over a minor chord type.
As usual, practice everything slowly, paying partucular attention to any variation that you are less familiar with.
I’ll be doing a little more advanced stuff in the next column, which will be out later this month too!
Rufus Philpot is a performer and educator living in Los Angeles who has performed and or recorded with everyone from Scott Henderson, Allan Holdsworth, Virgil Donati and Tony MacAlpine to Randy Brecker, Tom Scott, Gary Novak and Marvin "Smitty" Smith. For more, check out his website.
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