How to practice guitar arpeggios in a musical way
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- One of my favourite guitar arpeggio exercises is to work with a chord progression in mind. In this week's guitar lesson I'll share a great arpeggio practice exercise that will help you to practice guitar arpeggios in a musical way.
One sure way to know that someone has mastered arpeggios on the guitar is when you can hear a chord progression in their playing even without there being any backing track. An accomplished player can simply outline the chords so the listener can hear them in the individual notes being played.
But the key skill is being able to effortlessly move between the different arpeggios without always having to start from a root note.
To be able to do this across the entire guitar fretboard is a lifelong study, but there are ways to practice this gradually. The first is to decide upon one area of the fretboard and limit yourself to those 4-5 frets to source all the arpeggios you'll need.
The CAGED system (which you can study in my Guitar Blueprint course) will give you the framework to source barre chords and corresponding guitar arpeggio forms all over the neck.
Once you've chosen a chord progression and learned the arpeggios up and down it's time to start trying to fluidly move between them. To practice this I like to play 8 notes for each chord. With the fretboard limitation established, sometimes you'll be ascending up the arpeggio and, when you've gone to the highest note, you'll turn around and descend the arpeggio.
After you've played the 8th note, you'll change the chord and try and find the nearest note in the new arpeggio shape whilst maintaining the same direction (i.e. up or down).
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0:00 Today’s lesson
1:08 Choose a chord progression
1:32 Choose the ‘one’ chord
2:15 Source the other chords
3:51 Learn the arpeggio shapes
5:57 8 notes
8:00 8 notes with the beat
8:28 Developing the exercise
9:20 Across the entire fretboard
10:04 Patreon Group
10:19 GUITAR BLUEPRINT/Fretboard Mastery
10:45 End Screen
incredibly good stuff. How do you not have 1 mil views, I dont know.
Exactly what I needed.
Awesome indeed. Thanks.
Very good teaching
Really enjoyed this lesson. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
This is gold! Thank you!!
You're so welcome! 🙏🏻
Just happen to comment this exact problem last video, amazing timing. Great lesson.
I feel like this is where true mastery of the guitar begins.
I think so
great lesson
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This is an amazing lesson, thank you!
Thanks Florin, I really appreciate you saying that.
Deceptively difficult lesson, and perhaps just what I need. Being in the "middle" of an arpeggio, then realizing you've played 8 notes and need to suddenly shift to the next closest note in another arpeggio while maintaining the upward or downward directionality... Really trains you to be multidirectional with your arpeggios and know where they are not just by their root. I figure I'm going to have to do this for 6 months in order to be able to do it across the 5 different CAGED regions.
This exercise can certainly keep you very busy! Thanks
This is a brillant lesson, i always practice scales, but don't do enough apreggio practice, cheers.
Thanks Luke, appreciate the comment.
Hello Ry, congratulations for this wonderful lesson, even is it seems so hard to be learned...
Thanks Carlo. This takes a little time, but you'll get there!
Learning from Kuwait. This is one of the clearest videos on chord tone following, laid out systematically. I have a question though...how can we follow chord tones if the chord changes quickly? Also, please let me know how to do some smaller fast runs in-between these arpegio chord tone following solos. Your reply will be highly appreciated.
Thanks Alwyn. I think the answer to both your questions is to be aware of a 7-note scale that can be used over all the chords. For example, in the lesson all the chords and arpeggios are found in the E major scale so I could fall back on an E major scale pattern for passing notes and the 'fast runs' betwen the arpeggio chord tones.
First of all this was really great..I learned a lot from it..second I would really like to get the similar sound your guitar is making with my katana boss amp…can you assist in that Sir…how to set up my amp to get similar sound?
Thanks for your kind words. I’m afraid I’m not the person to go to for fear advice. I work pretty well exclusively from amp sim plug-ins. This is the Archetype: Cory Wong by Neural DSP.
Is there any trick for knowing what the next note is as you finish one chord and move onto the next? I am so used to starting on the root note during arpeggios that this is going to take some getting used to! It will definitely help me become more fluid with arpeggio runs and soloing.
That's exactly what this exercise gets you practising. My bet advice is to be solid on the chord shapes and be seeing them almost burnt into the fretboard. They're your visual reference for the arpeggios and the next chord tone.
@@Rynaylorguitar ohh I get it. I saw one of your other videos ua-cam.com/video/IZsTOwVayDc/v-deo.html and think you have a really good approach with really understanding the chord shapes and using those in all sorts of ways. It's making me look at the fretboard in a whole new way. Awesome stuff, thank you for the all the great lessons!!!
@@ThanhNguyenTN That's great to hear. Thanks for your kind words and support. I really appreciate it.