Kuba Szafran4th December 2008Those arpeggios sounds really cool, good job Pedja
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coffeeman4th December 2008Very nice lesson Pedja, this is a very usefull lesson!
kaznie_NL4th December 2008Nice sounding arpeggios Pedja!
Emir Hot4th December 2008Excellent approach mate, very usefull stuff
Piotr Kaczor4th December 2008Great exercise Pedja! Very useful.
Bogdan Radovic4th December 2008Very good lesson Pedja!
Pedja Simovic4th December 2008Thanks guys glad you enjoy it
Nazgul4th December 2008Very nice, Pedja! Gonna work on this soon.
Sinisa Cekic4th December 2008Bravo Pedjo care, my favorite kind of exercise !
Toni Suominen4th December 2008Nice jazzy feel on this one, great job Pedja!
Ivan Milenkovic4th December 2008Very useful exercise Pedja, good job
- Pedja Simovic4th December 2008Very nice, Pedja! Gonna work on this soon.
Glad to hear that Nazgul. Let me know if you need any help ! - Alex875th December 2008
Nice lesson my friend
Keep up the good work 
Gerardo Siere5th December 2008Very nice lesson.
Dejan Farkas5th December 2008That's very nice
- Pedja Simovic7th December 2008
Thanks guys, glad you like it
surduk13th December 2008Hi Pedja, I like your lesson very much. Nice chords progression and arpeggios.
I have a big problem as a beginning guitarplayer with the left hand fingering in general. And it blocks me in going further.
Being a pianist of origine I remember the ideal fingering of a piece and then I don't have to recognize each note separately.
Is there any "natural" or "the best way" of left hand fingering upwards and downwards on the fretboard?
I can play the 5 boxes, but when I must combine them, I get in trouble. Especially where I have to slide and with what finger. For instance your tabs don't tell me that, so I have to look close to your fingering on the video. But that's takes much time to recognize.
I hope you see my problem. Did I miss lessons on GMC? The only sliding I learned was with Kristofer Dahl's One-on-One lessons. I hope you ar any other GMC-instructor can help me out.
Aleksander Sukovic13th December 2008Great lesson! I love the harmony and these uncommon arpeggios!
Good job!- Pedja Simovic13th December 2008Hi Pedja, I like your lesson very much. Nice chords progression and arpeggios.
I have a big problem as a beginning guitarplayer with the left hand fingering in general. And it blocks me in going further.
Being a pianist of origine I remember the ideal fingering of a piece and then I don't have to recognize each note separately.
Is there any "natural" or "the best way" of left hand fingering upwards and downwards on the fretboard?
I can play the 5 boxes, but when I must combine them, I get in trouble. Especially where I have to slide and with what finger. For instance your tabs don't tell me that, so I have to look close to your fingering on the video. But that's takes much time to recognize.
I hope you see my problem. Did I miss lessons on GMC? The only sliding I learned was with Kristofer Dahl's One-on-One lessons. I hope you ar any other GMC-instructor can help me out.
Hi Surduk, glad you liked this lesson.
In this lesson you can actually recognize fingerings quite easily since its repeating trough 3 octaves. In each of the slow videos if you click on Lesson in the toolbar below you can read text corresponding to each slow video. In those slow videos I actually talk about fingerings and issues you are having, hope that helps
When it comes to connecting 5 boxes the best way when coming down (melodic wise) is to use your 1st (index) finger for sliding to previous box. When going up you should use 3rd and/or 4th finger. There are cases where you could use 1st finger when going up as well but thats for other matters.
I hope this helps you out man , let me know if you have any questions , shoot me a private message and I'll be happy to answer.
Thanks
PedjaGreat lesson! I love the harmony and these uncommon arpeggios! Good job!
Thanks man I love your lessons
Hvala care ,car si
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Hello GMC. Welcome to my Arpeggio study in Bb major scale lesson.
In this lesson I applied a couple of different concepts to help you learn 4 note arpeggios in fun way. First thing - what are arpeggios? The answer is notes that exist in the chord played one after another in specific order. What is a chord? 3 or more notes played together.
Having said all this, in this lesson I am using inversion of arpeggio. So basic Bb maj7 arpeggio is Bb D F A. This is also known as Root inversion because Root is in the bottom (first note that we play). 1st inversion would be D F A Bb, 2nd inversion would be F A Bb D and 3rd inversion would be A Bb D F. This lesson uses 4 note arpeggios that are all starting with 3rd inversion.
In future lessons we will cover more in depth the theory and harmony behind scales chords arpeggios intervals sequences and many other things. For time being focus on playing this and try to apply these arpeggios in your improvising and/or over appropriate chords!
I would just like to mention some other interesting things about this lesson:
- We use 2 notes per strings and use all the strings
- Every arpeggio is played in 3 octaves which means that we cover whole guitar neck
- Alternate picking is used trough out the whole etude
- Almost all the time constant 8th note rhythm is used
Hope you found this lesson useful. It should expand your knowledge of the fretboard, teach you how to play 4 note arpeggios, improve your alternate picking and expand your improvisation and song writing skills.
Spoken video is included in the lesson but do let me know if you have any questions regarding this lesson.
Have fun playing this and jamming over backing and I look forward hearing from you via forums.
Pedja
