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22: Diatonic Arpeggios Guitar Lesson · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Guitar Jet podcast, where you'll skyrocket your
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of theory, techniques and fundamentals for guitar. Hey, it's
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  Speaker 1: Miles and I'm going to be talking to you about
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  Speaker 1: dietonic arpeggios on the guitar today. Now, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what dietonic means, it means from the scale. So
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  Speaker 1: let's look at a scale like the C scale, which
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  Speaker 1: has the nuts cdefga, MB, and then you can construct
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  Speaker 1: the chords in the C major scale by stacking each
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  Speaker 1: note in thirds. So that means you'd go to your
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  Speaker 1: first note C, and you'd stack every other notes I'd
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  Speaker 1: give you ce and G, and that will give you
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  Speaker 1: the first chord in the scale, which is the C
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  Speaker 1: major chord. And if you do this with every degree
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  Speaker 1: of the scale, you will get a consistent formula for
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  Speaker 1: every major scale. And that chord formula, or this series
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  Speaker 1: of chords i should say, is major minor, minor, major, major,
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  Speaker 1: minor diminished. And when you break down a chord and
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  Speaker 1: play it one other at a time, you get the arpeggios.
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  Speaker 1: So the diatonic arpeggios, and the key of C major
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  Speaker 1: would be C major, D minor E minor, F major,
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  Speaker 1: G major, A minor, and B diminished. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to know an easy way to play this, first,
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  Speaker 1: you would outline the scale on a single string, So,
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  Speaker 1: for example, you could play the C major scale on
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  Speaker 1: the B string at frets one, three, five, seven, eight, ten,
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  Speaker 1: and twelve. Sorry not for a seven fret six, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'd give you the note CD E F G
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  Speaker 1: A M B. And of course it's much easier to
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  Speaker 1: understand with a guitar tab, which I will link to
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  Speaker 1: in the show notes. But from here you can construct
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  Speaker 1: your chords in the C major scale, your diatonic chords,
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  Speaker 1: and then when you play those diatonic chords one note
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  Speaker 1: at a time, then they become arpeggios. And that's basically
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  Speaker 1: how diatonic arpeggios work. And so practice them on single
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  Speaker 1: strings and start to learn different tryad inversions so that
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  Speaker 1: you can play tryad arpeggios or diatonic arpeggios all over
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  Speaker 1: the frepboard. Thank you so much for listening to today's podcast,
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic day and keep rocking on your guitar