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From a purely theoretical point of view arpeggios are a great place to start. You can follow that with finding ways to move from one chord to another using scale runs chromatic approaches and dominant approaches. This will help but it's kinda like learning a foreign language from a book, you're...

When you learn something by ear it really becomes a part of you and so becomes really functional musical language that you can use. You can speak your mother tongue language because you learnt it by ear imitating people around you and you'll never forget it. I can remember tunes I learned by ear...

The work needs to be progressive which means you need to know when something is mastered and how to move on to the next step. For the less experienced player this is hard without a teacher. It's also a good idea to set short medium and long term goals and make a plan that pushes you in this...

Many people wrongly assume that the study of scales is the study of melody. It's not. The study of melody is the study of melody. Scales are just one way sound is organised and their linear structure makes them useful for developing your technique. Arpeggios are chords one note at a time...