The Minor 7th sound is very common in modern music, and having this set of arpeggios under your fingers is very useful indeed, irrespective of whether you play blues rock or jazz.
Lets get started with the theory. The Minor 7th harmony is based on the Minor triad with an additional 7th tone added.
Drawing out the intervals we have…
So lets start off by charting these out on the guitar neck over 1 octave.
Taking each one of these in turn and filling each guitar neck position out with minor 7th chord tones, we have.
As you have probably seen, I have grayed out shapes that end up being repeated.
Now, putting this shape into context, compare these patterns with previous posts on…
- Minor Arpeggios
- Minor7th Chords
- Minor 7th Pentatonics
- The Blues Scale
- The Aeolean Mode or Natural Minor of the Major scale.
Very quickly you’ll see how these notes fit into context.
Enjoy!
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Topics: Arpeggios, Scales