The Super Arpeggio: How to Make One Chord into Limitless Possibilities

I seen a very old video of Larry explaining his concept and I thought my head would explode. Excellent job Clear as a bell!

Very enlightening, thanks!

Great lesson - love this!!

Holy smokes! This ties everything together so neatly. I love it. Thank you!!!

very interesting and helpful, adding new phrases to your vocabulary!

Incredible, thanks Steve!

OK, wonderful. You have really cleared this up for me. Larry Carlton calls it the Tri-Tone Substitution. I never could make that work. But your explanation made it understandable for me. Thanks. Hey, V-PICKS is in Nashville as well. We should do lunch sometime.

Brilliant.

Never heard this one before! I'll have to try it out. So each 3rd (min/maj) degree you go up the triads of the chord or the pentatonic will work but nothing beyond that?

Thank you Steve, fantastically generous lesson.

Allow me to attempt to explain why is this works, and why the A minor doesn't!
If you try the same thing, but whamp a Bb major chord groove, .... propably we could hear the modes more clearly.
Only because of a sequences created by alternating only the minor and major triads, thats why there is no diminished chord appears in the row that would bring us back to the key: Bb.
So alternating the majro and minor triads forces the sequel to change key, at the next major chord, in this example at the F chord, wich would sound a bit more mixolydian over Bb groove, especially in a form of a dominant 7th chord. But that would be only possible if the sequence would allow two minor triads to follow each other. But its not so we are forced to change the key, ...
... and that is why the A minor would not quite fit with the Gminor whamp groove, only up untill the F chord.
Im not an expert, I only wrote it down because I was wonder if Im right with this one?!
Great lesson by the way! Thank you!

Excellent lesson 🎶☮️

I am so glad I found this channel. I’ve only watched a couple videos so far and am totally blown away. Thank you so much for doing these lessons Steve.

Thank You so Much

Great concept Mr Steve 🤘🤘✌️🖖
Gonna help me tons....

Great lesson

Awesome lesson, Steve!! Thank you! BTW, received my Real Book w/backing tracks today! BOOM!

Love this whole concept and I think I finally am getting a grasp of it!! One question....does this only with a static chord going on underneath?? Thanks for the awesome vid!!

Eventually you’ve added all of the notes of the C scale. Soooo, you have to outline the chords which brings you back to arpeggios.

¿and where are the super arpeggio? this is ridiculus

Wow! Why didn't I see this three years ago? Most creative lesson on improvisation! Life changer for sure!

That was a fascinating tutorial. I understood the music theory concepts from another source, but seeing it demonstrated as a practical application really tied the whole idea together.

Tomorrow, when my music group meets I'm going to try this over a blues progression and see how it works. I'm thinking over A-D-E (chords), I would use something like C,F,G (minor chords)?

Anybody got any last-minute tips or suggestions?

Edit: OR...now that I'm noodling around with it, would it be C#, F#, G#? 🤔

Steve, love this lesson! While studying page two, I see that, starting with the G minor triad, you are adding 3rd intervals, from the G minor scale to create the minor 7,9,11, etc., and that the last three notes will form these alternating major and minor triads. But when you reach the "E", and create the Am triad, shouldn't that actually be an Eb? (The sixth degree of G minor), creating an A "diminished" triad? This is where I am getting lost and need help. Subbed and liked! Thanks!!

Wow!

53 years of playing and this theory never struck me. Outstanding!

Fantastic. You explained it beautifully (and thank you for the pdf)

Thanks.!❤️✌🏼

VERY helpful. Opening more ways to play.

a LARRY CARLTON CONCEPT... stacking those triads builds that larry carlton SUPER ARPEGGIO

Can you play a G Major Scale over that C major Chord? It has that F# in there....

What I learned from this is that I will never be a professional guitarist in Nashville. 😂

Brilliant

Holy freaking crap dude!!!
This is AMAZING. I'm applying this immediately in my playing, thank you so much for this video 😭

Most amazing lesson thank you sir !

Holy crap. Ty

Explained very well Terry. Sorry Larry. LOL

Thank you so much! 😀 My re-inspiration for the day!

What a great lesson! Theory and practice in an understandable package.

It helps if you understand there are two "diatonic" semitones. That is, two semitone intervals that are natural (not created by flats or sharps). E - F is one, and B - C is the other. This explains why C - E is a major interval (4 semitones), while E - G is a minor interval (3 semitones). All other semitone intervals are created by using flats or sharps (F sharp to G natural, or C to D flat). I know this sounds a bit confusing...I explained it the best I could. If you don't get it, it's most likely my poor explanation.

Mixolydian, locrian, Dorian, Lydian, Aoliean, Ionian, Phrygian, right?

Just stumbled across this, and I'm not into jazz theory but I have enough basic structure to follow what you're doing. Well, at least up until the extended chords 😂 Nicely explained on a really practical way of applying it as you go. Forget the theory, just move up to the third and flip , use the patterns you already know. So cool, thanks! Off to try it in a blues setting...

I love this so damn much thank you 1 million

The E minor scale over the C major chord is kind of like playing in mixolydian mode, G mixolydian.
All I can say is wow thank you I now have a whole new world of things to work on!

The E minor scale over the C major chord is kind of like playing in mixolydian mode, G mixolydian.
All I can say is wow thank you I now have a whole new world of things to work on!

Thank you!

This was a really great lesson. Thank you for sharing this.

This is why I’ve been searching for. Incredible

Wow a great lesson from a great teacher. Thankyou steve.