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Posted by: big harry Nov 5 2008, 01:20 PM

Hey friends out there

2 days ago i started practicing arpeggio´s
i only have a short exercise which is really beginner level (what i am at the moment)

is anyone out there who has some more exercises for my level which he is willing to share with me ?

PLS let me know

thx
Harry

Posted by: big harry Nov 9 2008, 01:34 PM

hmm no one here that can make some practicing tips for some beginner lessons for arpeggios ?

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Nov 9 2008, 02:22 PM

Hi Harry,

Before I give you some exercises could you please post the exercise you are practicing at the moment?
Definition for Beginner level is not the same for everybody so the sooner I see what you are working on I can give you some tips and exercises.
Cheers

Posted by: Gerardo Siere Nov 9 2008, 05:15 PM

Try this open strings excercises, you play it once with sweep picking and once with alternate picking so you can check they sound as equal as posible regardless of the way you are picking.

Posted by: big harry Nov 9 2008, 07:03 PM

hi pedja

thx for your reply
definition of beginner level is good question
i have been playing for about 20 years guitar, learned all by myself so i know how to play chords
but maybe it sounds weird but i have never been really playing arpeggios

at the moment i try to learn all things from the real beginnig because i am not sure if the things how i am playing are right and i want to learn as much as possible.
i came up to a point (lets call it endpoint) of my playing, wher there was no way of moving on
so i subscribed to gmc in august

so i am not really a beginner but some of the easiest exercises are hard for me and therefore i want to start over from all of the beginning

i found this 2 exercises on the web, which i am starting now and i thought there must be much more
the lessons are at gmc are way to difficult to start with for me

so thats the reason why i was looking for some exercises to START OVER

hey gerardo
thx for your exercise

cu
harry

Posted by: Nazgul Nov 9 2008, 07:31 PM

I think you should check out Joe's Appegiated Chords lessons, they really helped me. But I think these two exercises you posted would be a bit different. Anyways, just have a look.

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Nov 10 2008, 03:18 AM

Hi Harry,

Thank you for clearing things out.

These two exercises you found are standard chord progression in A natural/harmonic minor. Spanish music and Classical/shredders use this one a lot.
How have you found these exercises to be ?
I think you can learn a lot from them if you are just getting into arpeggios. Another thing is this is all Alternate picking which is another interesting way of playing arpeggios. You could try 1st exercise with Sweep picking to check out the sound of it.

I will have a look at the lessons data base and see if I can find some appropriate Arpeggio lessons.


I suggest you type in the search box Arpeggios and see what comes out in a search database!

Hope this was helpful Harry

Thanks

Posted by: big harry Nov 12 2008, 08:04 AM

hi pedja

sorry for the delay but i am on business trip
thx for your answer, so you think i should start with this exercises ?

i dont really remember the website where i got them, just used google to find arpeggios and then i found this exercises
tried to find some more, but i wasnt really able to get some they look interesting for me.
but i also have to say that i didnt look very long.
i thought here are so many great instructors and they can help me with tipps and tricks

and i think there are many of you who can help me

greetz
Harry

Posted by: Col Roberts Nov 12 2008, 08:18 AM

Hello Harry,
You might want to have a look at http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/different-boxes-of-major-7th-arpeggio/ on arpeggios by Alejandro Pinero, which is part of a series of lessons.

Cheers.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Nov 12 2008, 11:59 AM

Hey mate, you can always practice these lessons for some fresh ideas:

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/solo-guitar/triad-arpeggios-lesson/

http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/arpeggio-etude-around-the-chord/

The second one is a bit fast maybe, but you can practice it anyway, check out the GP file and work it out in a slower tempo.

Posted by: Muris Varajic Nov 12 2008, 01:58 PM

Or maybe http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/rhythm-guitar/beginner-strumming-and-arpeggios/,would fit beginner nicely I hope.

Posted by: big harry Nov 13 2008, 09:33 AM

thx Muris
this one i have done while running with MTP and i still use it from time to time

my problem with arpeggios is that i have read that you dont grab them like a chord, you should use different fingerings
on open chords it seems to be easier than somewhere else on the fretboard

thx for the answers
when i am back home from trip i will have a closer look to the presented exercises

cya

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Nov 13 2008, 02:12 PM

Have a great trip and when you come back we shall continue. I will prepare you some arpeggio exercises.

Posted by: big harry Nov 16 2008, 08:53 PM

hi pedja
i am back and will post you a message tomorrow

greets
Harry

Posted by: Pedja Simovic Nov 16 2008, 08:59 PM

Hi Harry welcome back

I will tab out something for you tomorrow

Talk to you soon

Posted by: kjutte Nov 17 2008, 10:36 PM

I think it's REALLY important to know what you're playing, and where it fits in. "arpeggio 1 and 2" doesn't really give you a clue at all, it's just a grinding pattern.

Rather learn to play Major arpeggios, maj 7, min7 etc. search the lessons of the page. example is muris' sweep+tap lesson. It looks really advanced, but that doesn't matter. Learn the sweeps, disregard the taps (or include, up to you).

Then you'll learn patterns that can be used in jamming, and you'll know where because you know its name.

Hope this makes sense.

Posted by: big harry Nov 18 2008, 08:04 AM

hi kjutte

thats the problem, it doesnt make sense to me at the moment, because i dont really understand "arpeggios"
thats why i call myself a "beginner" in this section
one thing i figured out by practicing the ones i have so far, it helps me a lot with my fingerings and i think i my fingerskills improve daily, no matter that they are from spanish folk or whatever, and it also helps to find complete new ways of sound to me because i always just played straight powerchords in main.
i know the main chords but i need to build up skill for bigger chords (7th, 9th ....) as well
oh my god i have to learn so much and sometimes i really dont know where to start .......
i have read so many things about arpeggios and thats one thing i was never really playing and thats why i thought i need to start with that from the REALLY beginning.......

cya

ps: i found another thing from arpeggios, what you think about that guys ?
http://chrisjuergensen.com.hosting.domaindirect.com/arpeggios.htm

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Nov 18 2008, 11:24 PM

That's a very useful article, and I think by going through all those exercises, you will improve arpeggio technique very much mate.

Posted by: kjutte Nov 18 2008, 11:26 PM

An arpeggio is just a chord played one note at a time.
A chord is usually something like 1 3 5 7 note of a scale.

So the answer is, learn the scale you want, and automatically gain knowledge of all the possible chords + arpeggios in it.
Only limitation is creativity

If you need further explanation feel free to ask.

Edit:
That's a great article. Basically those chords are from each of the 7 degrees of the majorscale.

The majorscale is essential, and I would always recommend to learn it first.

Move a note, get harmonic minor, move two notes, get melodic minor.
Remove two notes, and get pentatonic.

If you know the majorscale, you can pretty easily learn most other stuff alot easier

Posted by: big harry Nov 19 2008, 12:03 PM

hi again

sorry for the misinterpretation
i understand what triads/arpeggios are made of ( 1 3 5 7 ....), and i am on the way to get more into major and minor scales
the difficulty for me is to find the right notes without counting them and then the "right" fingerings

i have read that you have to use different fingerings than just grab the chord and thats exactly the point where i think i need to start, if there are any other suggestions your all welcome to help me :-))

i still need to look at the recommended links in this thread, but as far as i know from Muris´s lessons :-)) they are mostly way to hard for me and mostly much to fast
i really have problems building up speed .........

ok thats it for so far
cya

Posted by: kjutte Nov 22 2008, 12:47 PM

To know this, and to be able to use it impulsively in your jamming, you gotta be familiar with all the 7 boxes of the majorscale.

Each box represents a scale degree. Meaning each note in the scale is a degree, and has its own pattern.
Once you know all of these, you can easily build an arpeggio from the pattern.

Let me know if you need more info.