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5: What Are Arpeggios on Guitar? · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Welcome to the guitar Jet Podcast, where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
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  techniques, and fundamentals for guitar. Hey, they're fellow guitarist and welcome to
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  episode five of the Guitar Jet Podcast. I'm your host, Miles, and
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  today I'm going to tell you the basic definition of our peggios, how to
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  construct minor and major arpeggios, and the most popular techniques for playing our peggios.
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  I decided to make this episode because my two most recent YouTube videos on
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  the guitar Jet YouTube channel are all about our peggios, and on top of
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  that, I just love our peggios. So so back and let me tell
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  you what our peggios are on the guitar. So, what the heck's and
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  our pegio? Well, it's a broken down chord. That means they'll play
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  the notes of the chord individually rather than in harmony, and doing this results
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  in in our peggio. They're useful in almost every musical situation, including composing
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  melodies, improvising, writing and playing fast guitar solos and acoustic fingerstyle. On
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  top of this, learning our peggios will help you visualize and understand your fret
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  and help you understand this further, I'll tell you how to build major and
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  minor r peggios, which are fundamental to learn. So, the first and
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  easiest type of our peggio to learn is the major rpeggio. Major R peggio
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  contains a root, a major third, and a fifth. For example,
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  let's apply this to a C major chord. The notes in the C major
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  chord are ce ng. When you play those notes together, you're playing a
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  chord, But when you play the notes individually, you'll play the C major
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  R peggio. And the next type of our pegio you'll want to learn is
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  the minor R peggio. Minor arpegio contains a route, minor third, and
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  a fifth. Basically, you're just taking your major arpeggio and flattening your third.
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  For example, when applied to a C minor chord, you'll get the
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  notes C E flatten G, and once again, when you play those notes
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  individually, you'll be playing the C minor R pedgo. All right, now,
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  let's talk about the many techniques that you can use to play our peggios.
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  So first one is probably pretty obvious. Downstrokes. Downstrokes are a great
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  way to play our peggios if you're playing them at a slow tempo. And
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  the second technique is alternate picking, which is a great technique to play all
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  sorts of different arpeggio shapes on guitar, and of course it's a must know
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  technique in general and can be applied to almost everything you play on the guitar.
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  And the third technique is hammerons and pull offs. Hamerons and pull offs
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  are useful for playing one octave arpeggios our peggios on single strings and two notes
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  per string our peggios. You'll generally combine hammerons and pull offs with downstrokes and
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  upstrokes. The fourth technique is tapping. Tapping is the most iconic and fun
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  way to play our peggios and rock and roll, and it's a relatively easy
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  technique to learn, a difficult technique to master. All those little tapping licks
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  that you heard at a Van Halen play are well, they're generally our peggios.
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  The fifth technique is sweet picking. This is the best way to play
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  our pegios that use one note per string. It's similar to a strumming motion.
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  Is actually not too hard to learn if you're practicing the technique properly,
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  and the six technique is fingerstyle. Fingerstyle or petios are common, sound great,
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  and work especially well for acoustic guitars. Just know that finger style or
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  pedgios do not technically count as true our peggios due to the fact that the
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  notes in a finger style or a pedgio generally ring together rather than in harmony.
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  Or sorry, they ring together in harmony rather than ringing out individually.
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  That's what I mean to say. So now that you've learned what our peggios
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  are on guitar, go ahead and start practicing. If you all, learn
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  some practical and easy arpeggio shapes and check out my recent video Guitar Ar Pedgios
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  for Beginners, where you'll learn six different arpeggio shapes. And if you like
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  tapping, check out my YouTube video about tapping our peggios, and definitely subscribe
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  to the guitar Jet podcast to learn about to learn more about guitar theory,
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  learn more guitar tips, and learn more guitar techniques. Thanks for tuning in,
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  and you're awesome.