Using Dominant 7th Arpeggios Over a 12-Bar Blues

By Steve Stine Guitar Lessons

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Grab the PDF for this lesson here: http://guitarzoom.s3.amazonaws.com/NewClubs/Blues/lesson18/strengthen-your-solos-with-blues-arpeggios.pdf Jam track: https://jamtracks.s3.amazonaws.com/month18/A_Major_Blues_Jam. av Once you can see the chord shapes underneath a blues progression, your solos stop being random scale runs and start targeting the notes that actually matter. In this lesson I break down the dominant seventh arpeggio — root, third, fifth, and flat seventh — over a 12-bar blues in the key of A. We build the A7 arpeggio across all six strings, then apply the same shape to the IV chord (D7) as a fifth-string bar chord, and the V chord (E7), which uses that same shape just two frets higher. Once you can visualize all three, you can move the whole thing to any key. From there I play a 12-bar blues jam and solo using only the arpeggio shapes — no pentatonic, no extra scale runs — just to get your ear and your hands used to how the arpeggio sits over each chord change. Toward

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