Arppegio Study Pt1

[fatb0t]

Arpeggio Study:

I feel like a lot of players on MLP have a serious deficit when it comes to theory, I'm not an expert but I know a good bit. I want to share some with you guys if I could

This is an excerpt from one of my theory lessons over at guitarmasterclass.net a site which I have since had my posting permissions removed due to criticism of the moderators. ANYWAYS;

An arpeggio is "is a broken chord, where the notes of the chord are played in succession"

Okay so say you know your major scale and it's modes to some capacity. You should know your Minor pentatonic pretty well by now . And you know how and what chords come what what scale. Lets learn about some playing arpeggios within a solo.

For a major triad we have three intervals as you know: 1 3 5
For a minor triad we have three intervals differing only by a b3: 1 b3 5

Lets have a visual:

Major triad:


Minor triad:


Do you see how the three intervals keep on repeating across the neck?

This is the first three notes of an A minor triad, try it out on guitar. You can use these for rhythm or for shooting into solos.

Here's a single octave A Min arpeggio:

|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|--------------7----|
|----5----8---------|

Here's a two octave A Min arpeggio:

|----------------------------------5----|
|-----------------------------5---------|
|------------------------5--------------|
|-------------------7-------------------|
|--------------7------------------------|
|----5----8-----------------------------|

Do you see how this A Minor two octave arpeggio lies within the A Minor pentatonic scale?

Lets look at some other triad shapes that you should know, especially for when we want to get into sweeping/tapping.

Here we have another Am arpeggio, this one only being 5 strings:



Notice the first note is the root note.

Here is a THIRD Am arpeggio:


So lets take a very basic blues progression Am Dm Am Em Am

Whenever the progression goes back to Am, play the notes from the Am arpeggio. When the progression goes to Dm play the notes from a Dm arpeggio.

David Williman has a very good lessons about arpeggios:

* Improvising with Arpeggios Lesson
* Triad Arpeggios Lesson


What is kinda tough about arpeggios is you absolutely must know what chords are being played at all times. You should really familiarize yourself with the progression before you start off with these arpeggios. You need to change arpeggios every time the chord changes.

Anyways, this isn't the most indepth lesson, but it's a start.
Further reading: Guitar Arpeggios - Cyberfret.com Arpeggios for Guitar

If you guys like this lesson I can make another about chord substitutions and how you can build complex chords from stacking triads in interesting ways. Let me know.

[fatb0t]

Wow I spelt arpeggio wrong, awesome.

[lazz]

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its like a language that im not interested in learning

[fatb0t]

Do you know the minor pentatonic scale? If you do, you can use this lesson....

[tomaseriksson]

this was great, I will definitely use this!

Big thanks!

I really hope that you post a lesson about chord substitutions.

[fatb0t]

Glad you liked it, if you need some backing tracks to practice your arpeggios on let me know - I got a crap load of them.

[fatb0t]

The shapes for Minor/Major/Diminished arpeggios are the same regardless to key.
Here are some nice shapes for all the chords in the G Major/Eminor scale:

          Em                  F#dim                     G Major          
     S  S S  S S S  S    S  S S     S S S  S     S  S S S       S S   S  
E||--7p-3--------3h-7-|--8p-5-----------5h-8-|--10p-7-------------7h-10-|
B||-------5----5------|-------7-------7------|--------8---------8-------|
G||----------4--------|-------------8--------|----------7---------------|
D||-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
A||-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|
E||-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|


         Amin                      Bmin              
   S  S  S   S  S S   S     S   S  S    S  S  S   S  
--12p-8-----------8h-12-|--14p-10------------10h-14-|
--------10-----10-------|---------12------12--------|
-------------9----------|--------------11-----------|
------------------------|---------------------------|
------------------------|---------------------------|
------------------------|---------------------------|


             CMajor                        DMajor           
   S   S  S  S      S  S   S     S   S  S  S      S  S   S  
--15p-12--------------12h-15-|--17p-14--------------14h-17-|
---------13--------13--------|---------15--------15--------|
------------12---------------|------------14---------------|
-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|-----------------------------|


       Emin                  
   S   S    S  S  S  S   S   
--19p-15------------15h-19-||
-----------17----17--------||
--------------16-----------||
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