AR-003 • Dominant 7th Arpeggios

[justinguitar]

Questions...

[Moakoky]

Hi Justin: I'm new in the guitar, and I see you always say play the chord then play the arpeggio and then the chord again, I believe you but, I can not  find the chords in the arpeggios, can you tell me how to find them. What chords are in Dominant 7 (E) shape position 1.

[Rile]

When you look at the diagram for the Dominant 7th arpeggio, you probably there are to many notes, but there are only 4 different notes: R 3 5 b7. Those notes are just doubled.
The general way to play dom7th chord is this



Now compare it with the dom7th arpeggio diagram in 1st (E) position 

You can also make your own grips buy using those 4 notes in any way that you like.

[Moakoky]

Thanks Rile!. OK now I see some thing in the arpeggio, well lets work up on it. Have a nice day

[stivs]

what do you use arpeggios for? soloing or a specific type of music like blues??

[Quark]

Stivs, you can arpeggiate any chord so no it does not have to be just blues.
As you know, what you are doing is breaking up the chord, playing the notes of the chord, in no required particular order really. Its great for harmonizing, for building up your solos.

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[WorldWithoutE]

Hi,

This is my first post, and firstly, I would like to say that I have learn quite a lot from Justin and the lessons put up on the website, thanks Justin and Co.! I live in Singapore( I hope you know where that is, ) and guitar gear can get quite expensive, so lessons from a teacher would be adding to cost but the website has helped me a lot! Thanks again!

Regarding Arpeggios, are they only limit to these shapes and the Caged system shapes? What I'd like to know if I can use specific scale and areppegiate that. Example, I have been going through the Blues lessons and have learnt the first shape of the A Minor Pentatonic Scale. Is it possible to somehow manipulate this scale to play an arpeggio? I have tried using the whole scale, and it kinda sounded either 'scale-ish' or just plain crap, .

Not sure if if made any sense, 'cause I don't really have much background theory and stuff. I've been planning to buy the Practical Theory book, and might be purchasing it soon .

Thanks!

[TB-AV]

Chord ( at least 3 notes ) = Notes sounding together to form a certain sound.
--Ex. Major Chord, Minor Chord, Dom7 Chord, 13th Chord, Maj 7th Chord

Arpeggio = The notes from ANY chord played individually ( not at the same time ), one after the other. It is not necessary to play every note contained in an arpeggio at any given position. It is not necessary to play the notes in any certain order.

Scale = A group of notes that are used to form Chords ( The full scale set of notes ), Intervals ( any two notes from the scale at the same time ), Melody ( a string of individual notes from the sale, pladed one at a time )

So no you don't don't really manipulate anything. You start with a Scale. From the scale you build Chords, from the Chords you have your arpeggios.

It's how you play them, the timing and phrasing that makes it sound good. Don't play from top to bottom or bottom to top every time. Skip around. slide into a note. Play the same note several times. Skip notes. Skip strings. Play every other note in the arpeggio. Play every third note.

All of those are just suggestions. Mix them all together. Play whole notes. Play triplets. Slide out of notes. Play rests.