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Hello Everyone!!!! This Lesson I'm going to give you some fun arpeggio
licks that I use in my playing taken from my instructional video
"Virtuoso Rock Fusion Concepts". I hope that you will learn
from them
and make up your own arpeggio licks. Be sure you follow the fingerings
above the notation. Lets get started..........
Ex.#1 We have 4 arpeggios from the key of C major on the first 3
strings. The first arpeggio is a C major (C,E,G) the 2nd one is B
dim
(B,D,F) the 3rd one is Am (A,C,E) and the last one is G Major
(G,B,D). These are some of my favorite arpeggio shapes,you can really
get these flying up and down the neck. I don’t use sweep picking
for
these, I alternately pick the notes and use a pull off on the first
string. Make sure you move these shapes around the neck to different
keys.
Audio
sample #1 (click on audio sample)
Ex#.2 Now we are going to do string skipping arpeggios. This is
a really
cool way to play arpeggios.They are played on the first 4 strings,but
we don’t even play the B string.The first arpeggio is a Em
(E,G,B), the
2nd arpeggio is G major (G,B,D,), the 3rd is a F#m (F#,A,C#) and
the last
one is D# dim (D#,F#,A) I use Hammer ons and pull offs to make them
more fluent sounding.The progression is based off a E dorian scale
except the D#dim, which is from the E harmonic minor scale.
Audio sample #2 (click on audio sample)
Ex.#3. This is the main theme from my song "Touch the Sky" from
my "Full
Circle" CD. The arpeggios are based off the E major Scale
(E,F#,G#,A,B,C#,D#) in 6/8 time. The first arpeggio is a E
maj9.(E,G#,B,D#,F#). The 2nd one is a C#m7#5 (C#,E,A,B) and the last
one is a B add9 (B,D#,F#,C#). I don’t use any sweep picking
for this
one either, I use alternate picking.
Audio sample #3 (click on audio sample)
Ex.#4. Our last lick starts off with some extended arpeggios, in
the first bar
we have a F#-11 arpeggio.(F#,A,C#,E,G#,B). I rearranged the notes
so it
drapes across the neck. The next arpeggio is G add9 #11 ( G,A,B,C#D)
which is
based off the G lydian scale.This one I also spread the notes across
the neck, pretty cool huh.The second measure uses smaller triad arpeggios
A
Maj (A,C#,E), G maj (G,B,D). The last 2 arpeggios are Bm7 (B,D,F#,A)
and F#m7 (F#,A,C#,E). The last measure of this lick sounds great
over a, A Dom11
chord, because the notes in the triads A,and G make up that chord.
Again
no sweeping is used, but feel free to experiment.
Audio sample #4 (click on audio sample)
Below is the music notation
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