The Ultimate Arpeggio Trick | One Shape To Play Them ALL!

oh greetings guitar Fanatics here we are again hey let's talk arpegios today arpegios along with scales are great building blocks for guitar solos but the way I see and hear so many players and students using arpegios I have to wonder if they see arpegios as a legitimate melodic musical device or they just see them as some sort of technique trick something they can learn two or three random shapes of and play as fast as possible and Hope to sound [Music] impressive I've worked with many students that can blaze through two or three of those arpeggio shapes that sit just right on the fretboard like wildfire but when I asked them to play different voicings or different inversions in a different part of the guitar I'm usually met with a blank stare at best some fumbling around on the strings they may have memorized a shape or two but what they didn't do was really learn the notes of the arpegio and how those intervals relate to one another and how they relate to the chords that you might be soloing over if you happen to be struggling with arpegios well you are in luck because today I'm going to show you well I was going to use the word trick but it's more like a complete system it's really simple because it's all about One shape that you can use to play many different arpegios but it's also super enlightening and I promise you if you spend a little time practicing this you're going to have a completely different level of understanding of arpeggios to the point where you're going to be able to create your own shapes all over the fretboard hey do me a favor before we get into this and like the video subscribe to the channel my name is Charlie long let's play some guitar now here's what makes this system so easy to understand and use we're not going to be memorizing a bunch of strange shapes and boxes I'm not even going to bogg you down with loads of Music Theory today this system is all about recognizing one shape and that shape is playing two notes per string on two strings at a time I'm sure that's something you're familiar with because that's how we learn the pentatonic scale two notes a string we're going to take our shape with those four notes and we're going to learn how to change one note at a time to make many different arpeggios now here's the only theory that you're going to need right now the arpegios that we're going to play today come right out of the major scale and let's play in the keepy G the G Major scale has the notes g a b c d e and f sharp if we start with the G and we pick every other note we get the notes G which is the first note of the scale or the root B which is the third note of the scale and it's the major third that's going to be important D which is the fifth note of the scale and F sharp which is the major 7th so this arpegio has a major 3D so it's a major arpeggio and it has the major 7th so it's appropriately called a major 7th arpegio all the arpeggios we play today are going to be four note 7eventh arpeggios of some kind so here's our Master shape starting with the G note at the third fret of the low E string the B note at the seventh fret the D note at the fifth fret of the a string and the F sharp at the ninth fret of the a string two notes per string two strings and that gives us a four note shape that we're going to call the root arpeo form because it starts on that g note a root here's the really awesome thing about this system and why it's easy to understand but super useful in teaching you not just about arpegios but basically the entire fretboard if we learn a box shape arpegio vertically across the strings it could be tough to memorize and play because you might have two notes on one string then then one note on the next string two notes on the next string and it can seem sort of random but playing the arpegios horizontally like this not only makes it easy to memorize but there's symmetry in the shape if we want to play a two octave arpegio we just go over two strings and up two Frets from the starting note of the arpeggio that we just played so we had started on the G on the third fret of the low E so if we go over two strings to the D string and we go up two Frets to the fifth fret well that's a g note too and we can play our shape again and we can keep it going for another octave so we got to go over two strings from d That's our B string but this time we've got to go up three Frets because the B string is tuned differently than the others so now we're at the eighth fret of the B string that's a g note and here's our shape [Music] again putting all those together from the G on the low E string here's our first octave second octave third octave very very cool and here's what I think is a really huge value of playing arpeggios like this because the shape is so simple and because we're not just trying to sweep across it as fast as humanly possible we can get really familiar with the sound of those four notes and how they relate to the chords that were solar going over I've actually gotten to where I call all these shapes cord skeletons because they kind of look like bones Laying across the fretboard but we can take these cord skeletons and use them as melodic devices that outline the cords that we're soloing over and we can use them as jumping off points for creating more licks for instance I can play our shape on the EA and D [Music] strings now I just outlined a G major 7 perfectly and then I could jump off into a lick like [Music] this or I could play all three octaves and that puts me right up at that 12th fret with the G major E minor pentatonic shape and I could play a lick from [Music] there the point I'm trying to make is now we can see and hear our pegos as part of the melody that we're trying to play when we improvise not just some trick that we do to try to look flashy in fill up space I told you earlier that we're going to be able to take this two strings four notes shape change one note at a time and play several different arpegios so let's get into that now we're going to start with another major sounding arpeo the dominant 7 arpegio and we get a dominant 7 arpegio by taking the major seven note in this case it was an fshp and flattening it one fret so now our arpegio has the notes g b d f and now we've got an arpo we could play over some blues or country changes where they use a lot of dominant seven [Music] chords now of course all the chords we play over are not going to be major chords so how about creating a minor arpeo all we have to do there is take the dominant 7eventh arpeggio and flatten the B note which is the third of G and now we call that note the minor third and we've got a minor arpeggio with that F the natural F which is the flat 7even on top we've got notes G B flat D and F and that forms the G minor 7 arpegio as with the major 7 and dominant 7 arpegios we can take this thing all the way up the fretboard we've got one octave second octave third octave and we could at any time stop playing the arpegio and use it as a jumping off point for the rest of a lick something like [Music] this and not to keep repeating myself but playing arpeo like this making them part of the melody sonically I'm just feeling the arpeo at a completely different level than if I just play some shape to play something fast okay let's touch on two more arpegios that you won't use as often as those first three but you still need to know the next one would be a minor 7 flat five or half diminished arpeggio Minor 7 flat 5 is just what it sounds like we're going to take our Minor 7 arpegio that has the notes G B flat D and F and we're going to take the d which is the fifth note of the G scale and we're going to flatten it one fret so now we're going to have G B flat d flat and F and we can take that up our three [Music] octaves and that gives us something to play should we come across a minor 7 flat 5 chord somewhere in a chord chart now the last arpeggio we're going to look at today is a diminished seven arpegio and just as with our other arpegios we get it by changing one note from the previous type of arpegio we just played so here we're going to take our half diminished arpeggia which had the notes G B flat d flat and F and we're going to flatten that f one more fret so the G G diminish 7 arpeggia would have the notes G B flat d flat and E and of course we can take that all the way up the neck too here's our first octave second octave third [Music] octave and of course diminished arpeggios have applications in everything from really cool uses in the Blues to neoclassical heavy metal so let's review the concept we have a master shape which is two notes on two strings we started with that major 7th arpeggio which had the scale tones 1 3 5 major 7 we made a dominant seven arpeggio by flattening the seven so we've got 1 3 5 flat 7 then we made a minor 7th arpegio at out of the dominant seven by flattening the third so now we've got the root minor 3D fifth flat [Music] 7th then we made a minor 7 flat five arpegio out of our minor 7th arpegio by flattening that fifth degree so we've got one flat third flat five and the flat 7even and then lastly we turn that into a fully diminished arpegio by flattening that seventh again so we've got the root which is a G B flat d flat and [Music] E and now I'm going to show you how to really unlock the power of this system you can start our pegios on notes other than the root and when we do that we call that an inversion let's take a quick look at what this means our root shape of G major 7 we had the notes g b D and FP what if we move up to the seventh fret we start on the B which is the third and we play b d f sharp and G we would call that the first inversion if we move up to the D and we play d f sharp G and B we call that the second inversion then if we move up to FP and we play fshp G B and D we call that the third inversion and with each of these inversions we can use the same move over two strings and up system that we did with our root form to play three octave arpegios here's our root form of major 7 [Music] again here's the first inversion starting on the B note at the 7 seventh fret of the E string and going up three [Music] octaves here's the second inversion starting on the D note at the 10th fret of the E string going up three octaves and lastly here's the third inversion starting at the F sharp at the 14th fret of the E string going up three octaves so let's take one of the inversions and go through the process of creating our five different types of arpegios I'm going to start with the third inversion the F sharp up at the 14th fret of the low E string our major seven would be F sharp g b and d for dominant 7 we would flatten the F down to F so then we would have F G B and D major 7 dominant 7 for minor 7 we take dominant 7 and we flatten the B so then we would have FG B flat and D for minor 7 flat 5 we take the Minor 7 arpeggio we flatten that D or the fifth so now we would have F G B flat and d flat and lastly for that diminished seventh we would take the Minor 7 flat 5 arpeggio we would flatten the seventh again so now we have the notes E G B flat d flat I'll leave it to you guys to chart out the other inversions so that this video doesn't end up being 30 minutes long so there it is one of the best simplest and most efficient ways I know of to learn and play the most common and use arpeggios on the guitar hopefully you've gotten the notion that arpeggios aren't just some flashy trick they're an important melodic device that's massively important to outlining chords when you improvise I also hope the notes that make up the various arpegios are much more clear to you now as is the relationship of the various arpeggios that we were able to create by taking that major 7 and just changing one note at a time thanks for watching as always I really do appreciate it please like the video subscribe to the channel we're putting out more great guitar stuff every week as always work hard play hard have fun and never stop learning I'll see you next time

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Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 01 2023