This was a real eye-opener for me as I’d never been a fan of learning those ‘etude’ style arpeggio shapes, especially if they were based…
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If you’ve been following this series, you can probably guess how we’re going to form eleventh arpeggios. If you haven’t, feel free to check out…
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In Part 1, we looked at a way to pull arpeggios out of scales by looking at the bigger picture first, then focusing on a…
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Truth be told, I always found arpeggios very challenging to learn and ended up trying to force them into my playing. At Music College we…
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In Part 1, we looked at dividing the fretboard up into string pairs in order play horizontally up and down the neck. In Part 2,…
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If you’re a fan of Steve Morse’s playing, one of his most prominent techniques is alternate picking arpeggios instead of sweeping them. I think this…
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I’m a big fan of ideas like this that reduce thinking and allow you to come up with some great stuff on the fly. As…
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I was never a big fan of learning arpeggios, especially via a set of shapes up and down the neck, and a lot of rote…
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It all started back in Music College in the early 2000s, at the ACM in Guildford (UK) to be precise, where we were handed, by…
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If you’ve been following this series, you’re probably beginning to see how useful a knowledge of intervals coupled with a good ear is, and how…
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