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This time around, I’d like to share a trick based around a deceptively easy-to-play, simple concept
that will add some sophistication to your improvisations (while also being sure to turn heads with its
attention-grabbing coolness!): open-voiced, string-skipping 7th arpeggios.

The basic idea is this: Instead of playing 7th chord arpeggios sequentially in a root-3rd-5th-7th
manner, we’ll split up the arpeggios into six-note patterns with two notes per string on three strings,
skipping a string in between each.

The resulting intervallic shift of these patterns

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