Picking Arpeggios Lesson

- JaxN419th January 2012
  Very Nice feel to this piece, nice change of pace for you. Nice tone and playing...will be a good warm up piece.
  
  P.S. your jeans may have a hole in them....
- Ben Higgins19th January 2012
  Thanks J-Man ! Jeans ? I'm wearing jeans ?? Damn, I was planning on wearing the pink swimming shorts.. what went wrong ?
- Ivan Milenkovic19th January 2012
  Sounds great and looks great mate!
- Kristofer Dahl19th January 2012
  @ Ben you probably realized the weather was too cold for swimming shorts (so it looks!), especially pink ones. Thanks for neat arpeggios ideas!
- Ben Higgins19th January 2012
  QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Jan 19 2012, 10:15 AM)
  @ Ben you probably realized the weather was too cold for swimming shorts (so it looks!), especially pink ones. Thanks for neat arpeggios ideas!
  
  Thanks Guys ! Kris, it's never a bad time for pink swimming shorts
- MonkeyDAthos19th January 2012
  I love the Megadet"ish" feel of that Amadd9/D arpeggio!
- playaxeman19th January 2012
  Very niche chord prog.
  
  Bit of Alex Lifson (Rush) kindda chords, very exotic (add+) and streching.
- Sensible Jones19th January 2012
  Some great sounding chords in there Ben!!
- zoom19th January 2012
  some really nice chords there man! I'm gonna steel them all. Great stuff Ben
- Ben Higgins19th January 2012
  Thank you guys ! Steal all the stuff you want
- thefireball19th January 2012
  I love the chord progression.
- Sinisa Cekic19th January 2012
  That's great lesson Ben !
- Daniel Realpe20th January 2012
  that's a nice shirt what band is it? lovely background, inspiring,
  
  I love these type of chord progressions, very metal
- pikman20th January 2012
  very cool lesson,some great chords you use throughout bro....
- Ben Higgins20th January 2012
  QUOTE (Daniel Realpe @ Jan 20 2012, 01:03 PM)
  that's a nice shirt what band is it? lovely background, inspiring,
  
  I love these type of chord progressions, very metal
  
  Some band I discovered from America.. Metallideth or something...
  
  QUOTE (pikman @ Jan 20 2012, 01:35 PM)
  very cool lesson,some great chords you use throughout bro....
  
  Thanks Duder
- spacebran21st January 2012
  nice lesson dude.
- Dinaga24th January 2012
  I just love when I find a lesson which just screams to me: "Hey you, did you know you could improve a LOT at _______? Well I made a lesson just for you, so start practicing!" Awesome Lesson, Ben
- Ben Higgins25th January 2012
  Excellent.. thanks dudes
- Todd Simpson27th January 2012
  That pinky stretch chord is the bomb! Nice
- ygro12th February 2012
  it´s impossible to me make the 4th video, my hand is very little and the 3rd and 4th string desn´t sound... It will be impossible...
- ygro12th February 2012
- Aca18th February 2012
  Thanks! Very nice sound and very usefull ! But I've one question: the second arpeggio, is it not a FM7add11 instead of a Fm7add11 ?
  Thanks for this lesson

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- Tags: Chords, Arpeggios, Alternate picking, Accuracy
Hi GMC!

This time I'm focusing on picking arpeggios. What is an arpeggio, I hear you ask ?

An arpeggio (plural arpeggi or arpeggios) is a musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously. This word comes from the Italian word "arpeggiare" , which means "to play on a harp." An alternate translation of this term is "broken chord." - Wikipedia

We will be using alternate picking to play the arpeggios. This will be a good exercise for your right hand because it will improve accuracy, fluidity of motion and it also acts as an excellent warm up because the increased wrist movement encourages blood flow.

I've included the chord progression in the video but the chords themselves are not as important as the point of the exercise. The point of the exercise is to improve the things mentioned above and to equip you with the necessary technqiue to play all your favourite songs. No matter what musical genre you like, arpeggios always appear at some point and it's better to be ready for when they do !

Gear: Marshall JVM 410H. Clean channel, Green setting. Bass - 0, Mid - 4, Treb - 6

Tempo: 100bpm

Please practice this very slowly and be carefly with the chord shapes, not to strain your left hand. Introduce your hands to the shapes gradually over a period of several days.

As always, Enjoy !

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