The Minor Major 7th Arpeggio

Juampy Juarez explores the minor major 7th arpeggio — a wide-interval device from the melodic minor scale that his friend John Stowell showed him years ago. Arpeggios are a great way to avoid scale-sounding lines: listen closely to masters like Allan Holdsworth, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and John Coltrane and you'll hear arpeggios, triads, and patterns built on wider intervals rather than scales. This one arpeggio represents the melodic minor, the harmonic minor, the fourth mode of harmonic major, and the symmetrical augmented scale.

What's covered

• Fingerings for the arpeggio across the neck, and the augmented triad hidden inside it
• Stacking three minor major 7 arpeggios over a single minor chord — from the melodic minor, Dorian b2, and Locrian natural 2 modes — and mixing them in one "multi-color" phrase
• Combining the new arpeggio with original arpeggios, triads from each scale, and chromatic connecting notes
• String-skipping patterns and Juampy's own invention, "the borders of the position's scale"
• Real-tune applications: Wayne Shorter's Witch Hunt, Equinox in Eb minor, and minor blues

Includes an 8-page PDF in standard notation. Running time: 59 minutes 45 seconds.

Attachments include

• The minor major 7 arpeggio PDF
• C melodic minor #5 patterns
• Coltrane's pattern
• Major triads — harmonic minor scale
• Major triads — melodic minor
• Minor maj7 mix with originals PDF
• Patterns (string skipping)