Improvisation VIII - "Everything I Love" Part 2

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Last month, I changed my usual improvisation exercise by tritone subbing every V7 chord that would resolve to its associated I chord in the song “Everything I Love”. This month, I continue that practice by shift the range of the arpeggio exercise to the 6th-10th frets inclusive.

As always, the rules of the game are:

  1. Arpeggiate the chords of a song in 8th notes within a five-fret range of the guitar.

  2. Starting on the lowest available chord tone in that range (in this case, C, the fifth of an F major 7 chord) and arpeggiate upward. Change directions only when the next chord tone falls outside of the five-fret range.

While the purpose of this exercise is to improvise according to the above rule, some may find it helpful to read through a reference exercise. You can find one chorus written out here and watch me perform it here.