This exercise, or finger twister, is a moveable arpeggio pattern, but it will be in G major for this exercise. The first measure is an ascending I chord/arpeggio of the major scale, which extended out (1 3 5 7), is a major 7th chord/arpeggio, which is a G major 7th chord/arpeggio (G,B D,F#).
Hey there, faithful readers! In this second installment of Finger Twisters (Click here for Part 1), I'd like to examine, or shall I say re-examine, soloing over the I IV V progression.
I know what you're thinking: Not another column about blues licks! Rest assured, that is not the case.
This exercise, or finger twister, is a moveable arpeggio pattern, but it will be in G major for our purposes today. The first measure is an ascending I chord/arpeggio of the major scale, which extended out (1 3 5 7), is a major 7th chord/arpeggio, which is a G major 7th chord/arpeggio (G, B, D, F#).
The second measure is a descending IV chord arpeggio, which is also a major 7th chord and is a C major 7th chord/arpeggio (C, E, G, B). The third measure is an ascending V7 chord/arpeggio, which spells out a D7 chord/arpeggio (D, F#, A, C). Lastly, to end up back where we started, we have the descending I chord/arpeggio again, which is the G major chord/arpeggio (G, B, D, F#).
As I stated above, these are moveable patterns, so you can play them all over the fretboard. Try them in A, C and Bb major, for example.
Be creative with it. It does stand alone as a string-skipping, alternate-picking, "get from one end of the fretboard to the other" exercise, but if you incorporate some of the ideas melodically into your