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Minor Swing Arpeggios

idssdi

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I got bored during my lecture, So I decided to figure out arpeggios to use over minor Swing. If I missed some please add them!
Am6-D#diminished, Amadd9, Am, D7, Am6, Cb5(I mean a C with a flat 5)
Dm6-G#diminished, Dmadd9, Dm, G7, Dm6, Bb5(I mean a B with a flat 5)
E7-F diminished, E7, E, Bm6, Bsus4
F7-all of the ones that work over E7 moved up a halve step
These are all from theory stuff in my head during a structure at nano, meso, micro scale so there may be one wrong but I’m pretty sure most of them are right.
 
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Jak Angelescu

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Hey there buddy could you break this down for me a little bit more? I’m really bummed that I missed that last session because I would have loved to have learned all of this! Are you saying like over an a minor 6th chord you could play a D-sharp diminished arpeggio?
 

idssdi

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Basically what you’re looking for are substitutions. For example a D7 would be a substitution for Am6(because the notes are largely the same A F# C are in both of them). Now, maybe you know you can play a diminished arpeggio a half step up over a dominant 7 chord(in this case D# diminished over D7) so therefore since D7 would be a substitution of Am6 you can get away with playing D# diminished over Am6(and it can sound really cool too)
Just for your info D# diminished has the notes A C D# F# which are already three of the notes of Am6 using D# as a passing note can sound really cool(D# would be a b5 which is the blues note and you can also use the a minor blues scale over the Am6)
Now do this for all of them and you will probably get it.
Hope I elaborated enough!