Technique Masterclass
The Life-Vest Arpeggio Part II
“If you are having trouble organizing your sound options when soloing over the standards, and have "had it" with learning a hundred scalar variations, this course will solve your pr…”
About this masterclass
Genil Castro continues his Life Vest Arpeggio approach in this follow-up to his popular The Life Vest Arpeggio for Jazzers masterclass. Picking up where Part I left off, Genil takes the major seventh arpeggio and starts altering it — raising the fifth, lowering the third — to unlock even richer extended and altered sounds over complex progressions.
What's covered
- Simple, powerful ways to play over min7b5, dominant 7th (both altered and Lydian b7 sounds), tonic minor, and minor ii–V–I progressions
- Using a major seventh sharp-five arpeggio a step below a dominant chord to get the sharp 11
- Playing a minor-major seventh arpeggio a half step above an altered chord
- Soloing with extended harmonic sounds over the bossa nova classic The Girl From Ipanema
- Genil's personal "911 strategies" — reliable arpeggio fallbacks when a progression gets you in trouble
- The transformations that form the basis of Genil's jazz soloing style
Best taken after Part I, once the major seventh arpeggio is already in your fingers. You'll come away with several arpeggio choices for every chord type instead of one.
Full video is 37 minutes. 9 Pages PDF.
Lessons in this masterclass
Lessons
- 1Life Vest Arpeggio Full Class37m 44s
Reviews & Ratings
"Insightful is an understatement!!!!"
If you are having trouble organizing your sound options when soloing over the standards, and have "had it" with learning a hundred scalar variations, this course will solve your problems. Sr. Castro is frankly one of the best teachers I have seen and his work in his series on the "lifeboat arpeggio" will give you a new way of thinking, a new system of organizing, and a revolutionary new insight into the fretboard that will make approaching even the most difficult standard understandable. Moreover, his insight enables you to do this "on the fly," while you are performing a tune. I wish that I had the opportunity to study with this amazing player and teacher when I was a young man, but at least I have found his insights so helpful even after over 40 years of playing jazz. Thank you, Sr., Castro, for your insight and flawless teaching style!
"Life VEST ARPEGGIO"
incredible useful material. thank you very much for your lessons
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