How to Unlock Arpeggio Patterns Using Scales
This was a real eye-opener for me as I’d never been a fan of learning those ‘etude’ style arpeggio shapes,
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Category: Arpeggios
Diatonic Arpeggios You Can Really Use (Part 3)
If you’ve been following this series, you can probably guess how we’re going to form eleventh arpeggios. If you haven’t,
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Diatonic Arpeggios You Can Really Use (Part 2)
In Part 1, we looked at a way to pull arpeggios out of scales by looking at the bigger picture
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Diatonic Arpeggios You Can Really Use (Part 1)
Truth be told, I always found arpeggios very challenging to learn and ended up trying to force them into my
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Fretboard Motion: 3NPS + 4NPS Scales (Part 2)
In Part 1, we looked at dividing the fretboard up into string pairs in order play horizontally up and down
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Steve Morse Style Alternate Picking Arpeggios
If you’re a fan of Steve Morse’s playing, one of his most prominent techniques is alternate picking arpeggios instead of
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How to Use String Pairs to Simplify Arpeggios and Scales
I’m a big fan of ideas like this that reduce thinking and allow you to come up with some great
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How to Take the Tedium Out of Learning Arpeggios
I was never a big fan of learning arpeggios, especially via a set of shapes up and down the neck,
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How to Hack the CAGED System
It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise,
How to Play What You Hear in Your Head (Part 3)
If you’ve been following this series, you’re probably beginning to see how useful a knowledge of intervals coupled with a
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