Arpeggio Study in Bb Major Scale Lesson

Pedja Simovic

Arpeggio Study in Bb Major Scale

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- Pedja Simovic13th December 2008
  QUOTE (surduk @ Dec 13 2008, 10:50 AM)
  Hi Pedja, I like your lesson very much. Nice chords progression and arpeggios.
  I have a big problem as a beginning guitarplayer with the left hand fingering in general. And it blocks me in going further.
  Being a pianist of origine I remember the ideal fingering of a piece and then I don't have to recognize each note separately.
  Is there any "natural" or "the best way" of left hand fingering upwards and downwards on the fretboard?
  I can play the 5 boxes, but when I must combine them, I get in trouble. Especially where I have to slide and with what finger. For instance your tabs don't tell me that, so I have to look close to your fingering on the video. But that's takes much time to recognize.
  I hope you see my problem. Did I miss lessons on GMC? The only sliding I learned was with Kristofer Dahl's One-on-One lessons. I hope you ar any other GMC-instructor can help me out.
  
  Hi Surduk, glad you liked this lesson.
  In this lesson you can actually recognize fingerings quite easily since its repeating trough 3 octaves. In each of the slow videos if you click on Lesson in the toolbar below you can read text corresponding to each slow video. In those slow videos I actually talk about fingerings and issues you are having, hope that helps
  When it comes to connecting 5 boxes the best way when coming down (melodic wise) is to use your 1st (index) finger for sliding to previous box. When going up you should use 3rd and/or 4th finger. There are cases where you could use 1st finger when going up as well but thats for other matters.
  I hope this helps you out man , let me know if you have any questions , shoot me a private message and I'll be happy to answer.
  
  Thanks
  
  Pedja
  
  QUOTE (Aleksander Sukovic @ Dec 13 2008, 05:18 PM)
  Great lesson! I love the harmony and these uncommon arpeggios! Good job!
  
  Thanks man I love your lessons
  Hvala care ,car si
- Aleksander Sukovic13th December 2008
  Great lesson! I love the harmony and these uncommon arpeggios! Good job!
- surduk13th December 2008
  Hi Pedja, I like your lesson very much. Nice chords progression and arpeggios.
  I have a big problem as a beginning guitarplayer with the left hand fingering in general. And it blocks me in going further.
  Being a pianist of origine I remember the ideal fingering of a piece and then I don't have to recognize each note separately.
  Is there any "natural" or "the best way" of left hand fingering upwards and downwards on the fretboard?
  I can play the 5 boxes, but when I must combine them, I get in trouble. Especially where I have to slide and with what finger. For instance your tabs don't tell me that, so I have to look close to your fingering on the video. But that's takes much time to recognize.
  I hope you see my problem. Did I miss lessons on GMC? The only sliding I learned was with Kristofer Dahl's One-on-One lessons. I hope you ar any other GMC-instructor can help me out.
- Pedja Simovic7th December 2008
  Thanks guys, glad you like it
- Dejan Farkas5th December 2008
  That's very nice
- Gerardo Siere5th December 2008
  Very nice lesson.
- Alex875th December 2008
  Nice lesson my friend Keep up the good work
- Pedja Simovic4th December 2008
  QUOTE (Nazgul @ Dec 4 2008, 05:12 PM)
  Very nice, Pedja! Gonna work on this soon.
  
  Glad to hear that Nazgul. Let me know if you need any help !
- Ivan Milenkovic4th December 2008
  Very useful exercise Pedja, good job
- Toni Suominen4th December 2008
  Nice jazzy feel on this one, great job Pedja!
- Sinisa Cekic4th December 2008
  Bravo Pedjo care, my favorite kind of exercise !
- Nazgul4th December 2008
  Very nice, Pedja! Gonna work on this soon.
- Pedja Simovic4th December 2008
  Thanks guys glad you enjoy it
- Bogdan Radovic4th December 2008
  Very good lesson Pedja!
- Piotr Kaczor4th December 2008
  Great exercise Pedja! Very useful.
- Emir Hot4th December 2008
  Excellent approach mate, very usefull stuff
- kaznie_NL4th December 2008
  Nice sounding arpeggios Pedja!
- coffeeman4th December 2008
  Very nice lesson Pedja, this is a very usefull lesson!
- Kuba Szafran4th December 2008
  Those arpeggios sounds really cool, good job Pedja !

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- Tags: 4 note arpeggios, 3rd inversion, Bb major scale, Alternate picking, Jazz, Theory, Harmony, 2 notes per string, Learning the fretboard, Improvisation, Bossa Nova
Hello GMC. Welcome to my Arpeggio study in Bb major scale lesson.

In this lesson I applied a couple of different concepts to help you learn 4 note arpeggios in fun way. First thing - what are arpeggios? The answer is notes that exist in the chord played one after another in specific order. What is a chord? 3 or more notes played together.

Having said all this, in this lesson I am using inversion of arpeggio. So basic Bb maj7 arpeggio is Bb D F A. This is also known as Root inversion because Root is in the bottom (first note that we play). 1st inversion would be D F A Bb, 2nd inversion would be F A Bb D and 3rd inversion would be A Bb D F. This lesson uses 4 note arpeggios that are all starting with 3rd inversion.

In future lessons we will cover more in depth the theory and harmony behind scales chords arpeggios intervals sequences and many other things. For time being focus on playing this and try to apply these arpeggios in your improvising and/or over appropriate chords!

I would just like to mention some other interesting things about this lesson:

- We use 2 notes per strings and use all the strings
- Every arpeggio is played in 3 octaves which means that we cover whole guitar neck
- Alternate picking is used trough out the whole etude
- Almost all the time constant 8th note rhythm is used

Hope you found this lesson useful. It should expand your knowledge of the fretboard, teach you how to play 4 note arpeggios, improve your alternate picking and expand your improvisation and song writing skills.

Spoken video is included in the lesson but do let me know if you have any questions regarding this lesson.

Have fun playing this and jamming over backing and I look forward hearing from you via forums.

Pedja

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