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Originally Posted by SSJTWIZTA
you would be assuming correctly.
yeah ive been teaching myself from the start as well, just not very well. i need to get on these so called "arpeggios"
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Arpeggios are a way of breaking down triads into their fundamental notes. They can be used musically to give a part more movement and melodic content than playing straight chords does. Being essentially a triad picked apart, they're simply the tonic, third, fifth and octave of a given scale.
When you play an E Major scale, how do you do it? 0 2 4 0 2 4? We'll assume that for now, in which case it would look like this:
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0-2-4----------------
Which is E F# G# A B C# D# E (the E Major scale). To make a chord out of that we take the first note (the tonic), the third note (the mediant) and the fifth note (the dominant). 1 3 5. In the case of the scale above we can't play the tonic and the mediant simultaneously, because they're on the same string and we tend to play our chords with open voicing anyway. When we play an E Major chord we play it E B E G# B E. G# is the mediant in the scale and is played on the third string, first fret (which is important to know when you get into minor chords, suspended chords and the like).
If we're playing an arpeggio, however, we don't need to play the first and the third note simultaneously anyway. So we'll play an arpeggio as E(tonic) G# B E(octave) B G# E(tonic). In terms of fingering, that looks like this:
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0-4---------4-0-----
You can also take it through different octaves if you really want to. A 20 or 22 fret guitar gives us three octaves in E major in standard tuning without modifying any notes (ie, bending). At any rate, we can get into that later. This is your primer on arpeggios.
Does that all make sense?