Hi Barry,
The great majority of us Are taught To start with arpeggios To learn how to improvise. We are told That using arpeggios Will make our solos Song more "harmonic specific" and sound like we are playing the changes.........Obviously because chord tones Directly outline The chord we are playing over. We are given exercises and arpeggio etudes To jazz standards etc etc etc.
I think it would be great to hear your thoughts On this And maybe do a lesson on using arpeggios In a solo By themselves And in conjunction with scales.
I never really practiced arpeggios. I had to do it for school but found that just memorizing solos was more beneficial to me. I can clearly see all of the arpeggios because of the chord vocabulary I have. The recipe for me has always been learn solos, extract lines, memorize in several positions and apply to tunes as soon as possible. That with learning lots of tunes and playing with people often did the trick.
I am very happy to read this! I'm new here and I've been studying with other guitarists for a long time, everyone approaches the study of arpeggios as mandatory and, in fact, some of them start the improvisation approach by arpeggios. Being a big fan of Pat Martino, I really prefer to study lines than arpeggios and that has always been my disappointment with those courses. I am happy to see your approach and that it is not mandatory to study arpeggios 10 hours a day to become a good jazz guitar improviser. If you can detail your method further, I would be happy to read it. thank you
My comment above is how I approached learning to improvise. I don't know what more to say:) I'm sorry -barry