Jazz Improv with Polygonal Tetratonic Shapes

In this lesson I share with you a hidden fretboard resource for improvisation!
I'm sure you agree with me that the guitar is a very visual instrument and many players take advantage of this feature to recall certain chords and scale patterns. With that in mind, in this week's lesson I am going to show you a shape that repeats itself throughout the fretboard.
It's a 4 note polygonal shaped arpeggio extracted from the melodic minor scale. As a result it can be used to visualize and create improvisational lines that fit over several chords that we encounter in the jazz standards repertoire. The resulting sound is reminiscent of post bop guitarists such as John Scofield and the late John Abercrombie.
So check out the video and be the first one on your block (...or maybe your entire city?) to improvise using Tetratonic Polygonal Shapes!! (LOL)
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[@leonbarron368]

Something very king crimson about it. Great stuff!

[@dkwvt13]

great sound, I have stumbled across this pattern in my wanderings w/o having any idea what I was doing and now I still don't...! More than once thru on this one, Thank You...! B-)

[@carloscastre8944]

Hola Richie, gracias por la clase. Saludos desde de Lima - Perú

[@RichieZellon]

Gracias a ti Carlos!

[@GreatOxford]

It may be polygonal tetratonic, but it sounds like jazz to me! Cool stuff. Thanks, Richie.

[@RichieZellon]

Yes, definitely very jazzy sounding stuff like most patterns derived from the melodic minor. I guess that's why some call it "the jazz minor" scale.

[@jumemowery9434]

Love your lessons, love your humor and I get a real kick out of watching you play.

[@RichieZellon]

Thank you kindly Jume!

[@clairethompson8536]

Thanks richie, great lesson !

[@skippyimeanyou]

Great stuff - 22:44

[@PFB1994]

I feel like this stuff was in some Twilight Zone music, like the cliff hanger going to commercial.

[@sclogse1]

To keep the laugh, groan and applause tracks from becoming "old and predictable", perhaps you could exchange them periodically with the sounds of fire engines, machine guns, and air raid drills. Or just the sounds of bodies hitting the floor....

[@RichieZellon]

I need a good old "bada bing".

[@JohnA000]

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