I’ve been asked “what is the best way to practice arpeggios?”.
Short answer: as soon as you practice arpeggios, you’re doing something good!
There are of course many ways to practice arpeggios, and here I want to share with you my favorite exercise. With this, you will practice all arpeggios (triads and tetrads), in all positions and most importantly with good voice leading.
Watch the video and you can do all this by yourself.
I make all my students go through these exercises and they love it. It’s a great technique workout but it’s also musical! The most important is: you practice good voice leading, that mysterious thing your teacher is always talking about but never really explains clearly what it is 😉
This is one of the many exercises from the course Daily Triads Exercises. If you want to improve your instrument technique and learn how to creatively improvise with triads, this program will get you there!
Who is Alex Terrier?
Alex Terrier was born in Paris, France. In 2004 he received a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music He moved to New York in 2007 where he lived until 2021.
He is a Grammy nominated artist and has been associated with Kenny Barron, George Garzone, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Paquito D’Rivera, the Mingus Big Band and many more.
He is hailed by Dave Liebman as “a very impressive saxophonist and composer”.
