Arpeggios

two_stepper10 · Post by **two_stepper10** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:25 am

I am fairly new to guitar, been playing 4 or 5 months and bought The Gig Bag Book of Guitar Complete. Consists of every chrod, scale, and arpeggio. The one question I have that I have not gotten fully answered is, what exactly is an arpeggio? How do I read the notation for it as well? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

adrianosr · Post by **adrianosr** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:45 am

An arpeggio is a sequence of every note in a chord played in sequence. For example. A Cmajor chord consists of C,E,G, so, a C arpeggio would be playing C, E, G, C, G, E, C individualy like this:

G----------5-----------
D----2--5----5--2-----
A-3-----------------3--

This is as simple as it gets. You can move on from this to more full sounding (and much more useful!) arpeggios, like a C7, Cmaj7, Cdim... You can find this all over the internet.
The arpeggios are cool guide lines for soloing over a chord. Many basslines are simply arepeggios, specially in raegae and that kind of stuff.
Hope it helped!

DreaminBassMunky · Post by **DreaminBassMunky** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:10 pm

One part you missed was that in basic major chord arpeggio is the root third 5th and octave of the of the coninciding major scale.

adrianosr · Post by **adrianosr** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:10 pm

DreaminBassMunky wrote:One part you missed was that in basic major chord arpeggio is the root third 5th and octave of the of the coninciding major scale.

Sorry, I forgot he might not know that...

dmfollower · Post by **dmfollower** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:53 am

Arpeggios are cool.
I've been practicing those. There great for intros to solos(for me, not quite sure what there for) Everyone should learn them, they help with getting familur(sp?) with moving around the neck and finger motion.

two_stepper10 · Post by **two_stepper10** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 4:52 pm

Ok I think I have a better understanding of them, thanks to all who posted. Also, any links any1 recommends that would be helpful?

MWR · Post by **MWR** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:58 pm

http://guitar-masters.com/Theory/Arpeggio01.html

Check this site out. It's a bit more theory based and they use standard notation instead of tab.

two_stepper10 · Post by **two_stepper10** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:54 pm

Thanks for the site, has alot of useful knowledge, but I cant read note form yet, just tabs...

Bill Efting · Post by **Bill Efting** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:16 pm

(I'm new, hi!)

Learning theory is a very important part of playing guitar, if you want to progress past the crap thats selling on MTV right now...if your in high school still, join band, I did, just to learn theory lol

ljgestal · Post by **ljgestal** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:55 pm

a good song to "practice" arpeggios on is Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. it's pretty easy and its just arpeggios of like maybe 6 different chords.

good luck,
laurie

two_stepper10 · Post by **two_stepper10** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:59 am

ljgestal, landslide by fleetwood mack eh? I'll have to get that a try tonight...been playing with Classical Gas by Clapton, awesome song. But yea I'll give landslide a try.

Bill Efting · Post by **Bill Efting** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:15 pm

Classical Gas wasn't by Eric Clapton....

Its by Mason Williams

two_stepper10 · Post by **two_stepper10** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 3:03 pm

Sorry Bill but Clapton has a version out man...here is the link for the tab, its on ultimate-guitar.com-----> http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/c/c ... as_tab.htm . There you go, Clapton does play it. I have an mp3 of him doing it on my pc, you should dl it off kazaa, its great.