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Arpeggios on Guitar - Arpeggio Patterns & Technique
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Welcome. This series will introduce you to arpeggios on guitar, their patterns on the fretboard and techniques you can
use to play them.
Arpeggias can be seen as just another way to navigate the fretboard during your solo. As you'll see and hear, they can
really help you "connect the dots" as your improvisation skills develop.
Arpeggios only use chord tones, so there's less risk of tredding "outside" into dissonance.
Before we delve right in, a short introduction to arpeggios on guitar and their function.
Welll then move on to learning some essential arpeggio pattems and how to use them in solos.
Video introduction to arpeggios on guitar
Guitar arpeggio basics
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Arpeggios are chords played one note at a time. In other words, each note of the chord is cleanly separated, one after
the other, rather than letting them ring out together. I's therefore often referred to as a broken chord or arpeggiated
chord.
‘The diagrams below show a standard E minor chord followed by its arpeggio equivalent in the same position...
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Chord Arpeggio
This means if you already know some chord forms on the fretboard, youl automaticaly know their arpeggios.
Aso, if you know some scale patterns, youll be able to pull arpeggios out of those scales. We'll cover this process in a
separate lesson,
‘So remember: Where there's a chord or scale, there's an arpeggio!
However, there are more economical fingerings we can use especially for arpeggios. Ill show you some key patterns
throughout the arpeggios series below.
Just as we have major and minor chords, we also have major and minor arpeggios. There are also 7th arpeggios just
as there are 7th chords. So, it makes sense that learning arpeggios goes hand in hand with learning how chords are
constructed (covered in the chord theory section).
The function of arpeggios on guitar
When used in solos, arpeggios create phrases just like standard scale runs. The only difference is we're being more
selective of the key tones that make up a particular chord flavour (major, minor, major 7th, minor 7th ete.)
Whereas regular scale phrases tend to “noodle” and glance over non-chord tones (often referred to as passing fones)
ina linear movement, arpeggios move in a more harmonically defined way, as you're only touching on those key chord
intervals within the scale.
Playing arpeggios is like "connecting the dots" to build up the picture of a chord.
‘The arpeggio can lead in to, or out of a fuller scale phrase and it can connect phrases within the solo. It can span just
‘one string or all 6 strings. You can sweep pick them, tap them or alternate pick them in a more traditional fashion.
Arpeggios can also help you negoliate chord changes. For example, if he chord changes from C major to F minor, you
could play a C major arpeggio followed by an F minor arpeggio.
Weill look at the different ways you can weave arpeggios into guitar solos in the lessons below.
Guitar arpeggios series contents
Work through the lessons below in the order they're presented. Take your time (there is no exam deadline!). There are
backing tracks to help you practice the patterns you learn and encourage you to try out your own ideas. It won't be long
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before you're including arpeggios in the solos you write almost as second nature. I's simply another soloing tool at your
disposal.
Patterns..
> Major Arpeggios
> Minor Arpeggios
> Tth Arpeggios
Technique.
> Arpeggio Technique
> Tapping Arpeggios
> 3 String Sweeps.
> 4 String Sweeps
> 5 String Sweeps
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