Monday, September 3, 2007

Arpeggios - Weapons Of The Lead Guitarist

To make arpeggios your friends, you need to know what they are and how they can help you, and you must also have the physical dexterity to put your knowledge of arpeggios into practice.
When you pick out the single notes contained in any chord, and play them separately, you are playing an arpeggio. You can put the notes in any order, use up or down strokes, hammer-ons or pull-offs, string bending, whatever.
So wherever you have the possibility of making a sound by playing a chord, you have the possibility of playing different combinations of sounds using the notes of the chord.
And these notes you are using are found all over the fretboard. They can be grouped in a certain way when they are played as a chord, and grouped in another way when they are played as a scale. But look for more possibilities of using notes from different positions on the neck. Get into it for a few hours. Experiment.