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Arpeggios

Chords played one note at a time — the bridge between chord shapes and melodies, ending with the simplest trick that makes a solo sound intentional.

Arpeggios

A chord is several notes at once; a melody is notes one at a time. An arpeggio is both: the notes of a chord, played in sequence. It’s the bridge between the shapes you strum and the lines you solo — and learning where the chord tones hide inside your scale shapes is what separates playing over a song from playing with it.

Three exercises: finding the chord tones inside chords you know, movable arpeggio shapes, and landing on target tones when the chords change.

Exercises

  1. Exercise 00InterviewTell your tutor what you already know about this course's topic and what you want to get out of it.
  2. Exercise 01Chord tonesLearn that a chord is degrees 1, 3, and 5 of its scale, and find those three chord tones inside the open C and E shapes you already play.
  3. Exercise 02Arpeggio shapesLearn a movable minor arpeggio hiding inside pentatonic box 1 and a movable major arpeggio inside the E-form barre shape.
  4. Exercise 03Target tonesMake a solo sound intentional by landing on a chord tone every time the chord changes, over a two-chord loop from Am to D.