F... G... H... I... J... K... Petit alphabet des dinosaures... Dans le but de découvrir de nouvelles espèces et de sortir de ma zone de confort !

F... G... H... I... J... K... Little dinosaurs alphabet... I want to discover new animals and get out of my confort zone!

Postscript:

If you do start to feel some excitement about theory as your fingers get used to this stuff, find a graphic of the ‘circle of fifths’ and read it counterclockwise from G while you recall how the runs in the material are sequenced…

Pretty cool, huh?

What’s fantastic about this approach is you don’t have to learn any theory.

The theory reveals itself as you play.

After which you’ll have a thirst for more.

Because it works.

It sounds great.

And you now own your whole guitar, frets 0-12 and beyond.

Merry Christmas!

https://www.premierguitar.com/lessons/jazz/pat-metheny-practice-lesson

8/8

Just learn the three patterns from the TAB provided.

Get the G, C, F and Bb runs down at any comfortable speed.

Go one at a time, then practice fitting them together, then looping them.

You’re going to sound amazing in no time.

Then—and only then—read the item and do the suggested work to build in the remaining eight arpeggiated runs.

They all use one of the same three patterns.

https://www.premierguitar.com/lessons/jazz/pat-metheny-practice-lesson

7/8

Now, here’s the payload.

Below is a link to an intriguing story about how jazz great Pat Metheny practices.

Again, do not tell yourself you can’t do this because Metheny’s name is attached to it—I’m shit, and if I can do it, so can you.

And ignore the ‘chops/theory intermediate’ BS.

It’s beginner.

You don’t even have to read the text.

https://www.premierguitar.com/lessons/jazz/pat-metheny-practice-lesson

6/8

So, an arpeggio has fewer notes than the scale from which it is drawn.

It’s the same as any chord you might already know.

And it sounds beautiful because it’s harmonized.

Which is what music is all about, right?

Think of every arpeggio, simple as it is, like a barbershop quartet.

Or better.

5/8

Before we dive in, let’s defuse ‘arpeggio’ because it sounds like a such a massive theoretical mf’r.

Here we go, get ready…

An arpeggio is a chord.

That’s it.

Done.

The only reason it’s got a different name is you play it one note at a time.

You are now a music expert.

4/8

So what’s the trick?

Arpeggios.

Three of them, not five.

Fewer notes to learn.

So smaller and simpler than the CAGED scales.

Easy to play.

And fantastically rewarding.

3/8

Everyone wants to be able to play up the fretboard.

There’s some sweet stuff up there—we know cuz we’ve heard it.

But how to get there?

CAGED is a great way to go. To search & learn = to never regret.

But, you can open up the fretboard and sound incredibly musical even before working on the five basic patterns of CAGED.

2/8