Haute Gitanerie

A♭9 arpeggio for gypsy jazz

The A♭9 arpeggio is built from the notes A♭ (R), C (3), E♭ (5), F# (♭7), B♭ (2). On Haute Gitanerie you can see it across the whole guitar neck — contained position boxes, long diagonal forms, and its parent scale (A♭ Mixolydian) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

How to practise the A♭9 arpeggio

Start with a contained position box near the low strings, then move it up the neck fret by fret, or follow a diagonal form for a two-octave sweep in the manouche style. Every note is labelled with its interval (R, 3, 5, ♭7, 2), so you always know where the root, third, fifth and seventh sit.

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