How to Practice Arpeggios

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[@richsackett3423]

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[@lopezb]

@@richsackett3423 If you see the film about Jaco it's clear he sought out the knowledge. BUT- it helps if you meet this early on. It's always a combination of the two. If someone goes to Berklee no doubt they will meet by chance many who will serve as mentors. The surroundings make a huge difference, because those chance encounters can more easily happen. This is true for any type of knowledge: martial arts, music, mathematics. The difference is that now with the internet a lot of knowledge is much more easily available; this works especially well with music and especially guitar it seems. For martial arts you really need to feel it directly. For math you essentially can't really get that knowledge outside of a great university. Yes you can learn from books but videos can be either too fast or too slow. Regarding guitat, we all learned so much from friends, but the network now (a lot thanks to Rick!) is much much larger, allowing those with a thirst for knowledge to really fly....

[@eh3920]

I am 15!

[@adriatic.vineyards]

5:11 adding Cmaj7 to root of Am7 6:00 C7 + extenions 6:40 Allman bros 9:20 COMBINING ARPEGGIOS (C7 + Dmaj + C lydian) 9:51 for deconstruction 10:00 C lydian 10;52 Bb lydian 21:37 cm7 + Bb /F = Cmaj9

[@ec8107]

After practicing for a couple of hours today, I felt pretty good about myself...then I watched this.

[@psilocybe_reptiliensis]

Me too... So I decided to start taking notes

[@johnvcougar]

😅

[@RistodGreat]

Bought your book as a gesture of appreciation for your enthusiasm and willingness to share your knowledge. All the best.

[@MrTommySullivan]

I think that this is the actual holy grail of playing well. If one can get this concept, you will play beautifully. It’s no small feat. Knowing all of those notes in context is a heavy learning process. 100% worth it.

[@Jenisonc]

I need to sit down with his on repeat. Thank you, Rick.

[@patrickjaroch5084]

man that guitar sounds amazing, your channel is such an inspiration. im not even a musician but i would love to learn.

[@Zacchus]

Never too late to start!

[@Dickunddoof]

Finally some content for Jazz musicians and generally all genres..... Great stuff!

[@ManuelGarciaArquitectoCol2218]

This was really good, I remember a book, an old one by Don Mock, artful arpeggios...I don’t know if I still have it but I’m gonna look for it..

[@peterrazumnov5706]

"You do what sounds good" - brilliant words.

[@Spinz99]

Ricky's creativity workshop. It does it for me.

[@medupimpekelangmapitsa9093]

So much important infomation man. Great scales. But the problem is that one cannot figure them out if u play them so fast. Try to do them very slow with guiter figure to be explucit.

[@wadesharp11]

Your the man bro!! Love your lessons, personality and answers. Great how you said "You try not to sound like anyone else!! Beauty thats the goal and so challenging ....Thanks again from NZ

[@wadesharp11]

Im still watching this lesson, all night! Its actually gold and more valuable than anyone would realise! Thank for sharing man yr an angel (ive tabbed so much lol)

[@migjordanpayawal7856]

The arpeggios remind me of Final Fantasy opening themes, especially the one on Amin/Cmaj.

[@aslazaimi5824]

All this lydian put me in a floating cloud, love it! Bravo ma gueule

[@sunburntaquaticape6694]

wow! some really great sounding and varied arpeggio sequences! I really love the sound of the extensions too. I'm gonna have to be a bit more expansive and fresher in my approach now. Today ive been trying to lead into arpeggio practice with whole step enclosures to create more melodic interest and variety but your playing in this video is just light years ahead musically and really highlights the potential possibilities available. Thanks Rick, I appreciate the inspired playing and demonstration. best wishes.

[@Endless_Skyway_Adventures]

in the 80's there was a book by Dennis Lambert called Producing Hit Records that had a floppy 33-1/3 vinyl that you had to put on top of another rigid LP to play. It had individual tracks of the song BABY COME BACK by Player. It was one of the very few sources of what individual tracks sounded like at the time. I remember having people over just to hear the disk and how excited we were to be able to hear individual parts of a hit record. It was very similar to "What Makes this Song Great" except there was Audio Only.

[@robrippen]

These arpeggios are cool and I understand arpeggios in relation to in C the major arpeggios for the 1chord minor for the 2 chord minor for the 3rd major 7 for the 4 & so on. These arpeggios are great but a bit confusing when he's not showing the progression he's playing over. Rick's great but just wish he could present it a bit more clearly by showing the progression he's playing over and then elaborating a bit. I have the beato book but it's on my phone and it's massive. Would cost a fortune to take it to have all the pages printed up to bind it like a fake book.

[@johnvcougar]

Maybe print it a section at a time, or use the app?

[@markgueren9633]

I love this!! Funny thing is I'm hearing a bunch of YES licks in there...very Steve Howe...lol

[@adamwarlock5286]

He didn't get guitar player best guitarist ten years running for nothing

[@mrkrud]

I’m right where you used to be with arpeggio practice trying to pound root to root runs into pieces that fit real life holes. May be you saved me a few years. Thanks for blazing the trail for us

[@jeffmckinnon5842]

Learning this stuff is so much fun. There are just so many ways to go. If we are really lucky, one day we could write beautiful mind blowing, chart topping songs. Become a star, and use almost none of this stuff! Great songs are usually fairly simple but you have to learn all of this so you can learn to get the most from the least

[@chrisrimolt3233]

Are these exercises and routines in the Beato Book? If so... I'm a buyer. Love the Channel, Rick - love it.

[@Ruudis9er]

You're the Best Rick, eternal gratitude to you.

[@hazor777]

Rick - so much valuable content , so little time to learn it ........ where were you 30 yrs ago .....?

[@bobravenscraft5376]

That's it

[@Kobayashhi]

Don Mock has some cool books about that, highly recommended. Fantastic content Rick!

[@themasterrogerdelgado]

Very entertaining just listening to you improv. Makes me want to go upstairs and practice. Your hard work shows Rick!

[@2002juliet]

I'm having an "Aristocats" flashback (Remember one of the kitten's song about learning arpegios?!)

[@findmads]

How can I like this video twice?! Thanks Rick. This is just what I need to move forward

[@joshhigh5538]

Thank you sir i come up with a slick e minor f minor arpeggios that are killer from this

[@bryanwchambers9734]

Yes!!! I was waiting for the next installment of this series, "EXTREME, ULTRA, MEGA APEGGIOS"!!! Thanks Rick

[@seesharpminor7996]

Ricky Ricky Rick Beato!!!! Loving these videos always 🎸🎸💥💥

[@AlexKaufman]

Hey Rick! Regarding to the next movie "Bohemian Rhapsody", are we gonna see one of your interesting analysis of that outstanding song or any other Queen song, in the future? Greetings!

[@shanetrain6652]

I love this! I have been looking for a way to really play arpeggios.

[@TyDie85]

I know this will sound dumb, but I wrote music and didn't realize what I was doing is called "arpeggios". I love learning more! I either learn something completely new, or I learn the terms and specifics/more detail about things I figured out

[@Mr77pro]

Solid gold Rick.....love it!!!

[@samiegfunk1]

Howdy Rick, great video. I really love the mixing videos focusing on Andy and Chad. You mentioned that you have the multi track examples available. I would really like to experiment with those and the snare sample you created, are they still available? Would you ever consider making a video on advanced reverb mechanics, the likes of George Massenburg and those cats? Cheers!

[@stevekellar1403]

I'M NOT A GUITAR PLAYER, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU HAVE A PRETTY REMARKABLE PICKING TECHNIQUE....MAYBE WOULD BE A GOOD SUBJECT FOR A VIDEO ? OUTSTANDING VIDEO HERE. WHAT A GIFT ! THANKS !

[@RickBeato]

Cool. I never thought about it :)

[@lastdaysguitar]

Robbie Barnby is an arpeggio machine. Masterful player.

[@rsmallfield]

What about an episode of What Makes This Song Great? On ‘Still in Love with You’ by Thin Lizzy, from the Live and Dangerous album (not the early studio version).

[@leemaples1806]

Very cool lesson Rick. Really inspirational stuff.

[@bobparsonsartist564]

I take the major scale technology and superimpose over the dominant chords. A DM scale spells out an A7. I don't know if I'm lazy or what, but that is easy for me to visualize. Or play the major scale a whole step down. It looked like your C Dominant was a Bb M scale. All that aside, I love this stuff. Especially "practice what you'll use" idea!

[@YoussefRbahi]

Your comment was kinda confusing but isn't C7 the V chord in the key of F, and thus you should play the F major scale?

[@bobparsonsartist564]

Youssef Rbahi , when you have dominant chords, the major scale a whole step down works nicely. You’re right my comment was confusing. My bad.

[@davemckay4359]

Thanks Rick for showing this.

[@Wourghk]

Very nice explanations, thank you!

[@frankbrancatisano4743]

Hey I Rick thankyou so much for everything you've been teaching it certainly made my practice times longer , but I think you could do with pair of glasses

[@GeorgeSPAMTindle]

I have a quite unusual but versatile finger picking technique. I attribute this to smoking whilst playing, it involves moving the cigarette, or other smoking medium, to and from your mouth without missing a beat. So as well as drinking a lot of coffee musicians really ought to smoke as well.

[@davenabors1928]

Thanks Rick! I have an arpeggio practice routine that I’ve used for years, but have always had trouble turning my knowledge of chord spelling and arpeggios into what sounds pleasing to me in improvisiation. This changes my thinking quite a bit.!

[@Stratoblastification]

Love your stuff.

[@zentatonic]

You are a saint for putting so much love and time into all these woke AF videos, Rick. They are helping the rest of us schleps understand so much.

[@deeveeuhs]

When you played that suspended arpeggio my ears were like “oh that’s fall to pieces by Velvet Revolver”.

[@AnotherAlly]

I watch him played leads and it make me wanna burn my guitar. Nice work, Rick.

[@robbiedaug]

When arpeggios are hard enough, Rick mixes them all up into the same scale, and it's gets more complicated.

[@splashesin8]

Love those sounds.

[@WillKriski]

These are great. I share your stuff with my modest guitar following. :)

[@koalemos1679]

I love your vids Rick. I'd like to see a How to Practice Progressions :D Just a humble suggestion..

[@brentoned]

Question... A friend and band-mate of mine turned me on to your channel last week and I've been blown away by pretty much everything I've seen so far. I'm especially intrigued by your break down the music theory in the "What makes this song great" series. Especially artists you would never expect, like Nirvana and Blink 182. My question is how important do you think it is to actually "know" all that music theory? I imagined artists like Kurt Cobain had an instinct for those amazing melodies rather than a technical understanding. And then there's the guys like me that "noodle" until I find what sounds right, or different, or interesting. So, from your experience and knowledge, how many of these great artists you are reviewing or have worked with had a technical understanding verses an instinctive understanding, or maybe even just got lucky once or twice. Thanks, Keep the EXCELLENT content coming.

[@dreambigprod.7141]

How do you know which arpeggios to play over the chord? Do you identify the key the chord is in then you can use the arpeggios of the chords in that key?

[@just.some.dud3]

Rick, you should really write some of these out for your loyal followers!

[@jcrevolar]

you da man Rick

[@WimBlock]

Thanks you!

[@azapura]

Mr. Golden Ears in the flesh

[@kentower]

Hey Rick, nice Video and funny to hear you skipped triads in favor of 7th chords as well. However I can’t keep pace with what you are saying and playing here, so I decided to go back to page 93 of your book and come back here when I‘m friends with triads at least. I wish Safe passage to 2019 for you and your family❤️🍀🚀

[@ChristofferKeizer]

I always feel like I'm 20 solid epiphanies away from any of these videos making sense.

[@freddurst9676]

Hey Rick. I really like your videos, and I appreciate your help. But I feel like sometimes you tend to throw us in the deep end. Could you maybe link related videos of yours that are a bit more basic in the description. Thanks!

[@trabrex7697]

Tell us about the Telly

[@Cactustone]

Hahah! Your opening warmup arpeggio sounds like Trey Anastasio from the Junta album!

[@DerekReevesMusic]

Another great video! Question: when you were talking about the B flat Lydian sound over the C7, I love that sound, but it sounded like there were f sharps in B flat Lydian. I should know this, but what would you call that? B flat Lydian #5?

[@johnjacquard2182]

Rick, i want to do a project that combines like pink floyd dark side, fleetwood mac rumours type but with todays production sensibilitys of use of subwoofer low ocatves with 808s etc. than all that combined with the three dimensionality of jazz harmony

[@johnjacquard2182]

you should get it on that with me haha!

[@JakesGamingCodm]

Surprised nobody talked about how his first arpeggio is almost the exactly intro for stranger things.

[@martymcfly1833]

Rick beato be like “I’m not a guitar player” *proceeds to make sweet love to the guitar*

[@avgjoegat8126]

Each vid is an ocean.

[@TheArchitect097]

I love watching drunk Rick teach me at .5 or .25 speed.

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

Sounds quite Stevemorsian))) love it)

[@GeorgeSPAMTindle]

I agree with Rick about the coffee. I drink two things, coffee or alcohol. Coffee for practicing, alcohol for messing around.

[@robschaller9061]

Rick, I've got a serious question, and perhaps it's just that I'm not the fastest learner but, How do you find time to do the type of practice you are talking about when you are hip-deep in learning a setlist of 50 songs? I typically aim to get in at least 5 hours a day on the instrument and when Im not physically playing Im sitting in my office watching youtube video's on music theory, or Im listening to songs on the setlist as it is a bit easier to learn the songs correctly when you know the songs from hearing them over and over (at least it is for me) with that in mind how the heck do I carve out time for just some of what you are talking about? For you younger people, for the love of God above, LEARN THEORY NOW while you are young and you have years ahead of you as a player. I didn't and if I could change just one thing it would be that I spent my energy early in my playing focusing on theory.

[@mikemolaro4198]

Cut yourself a break dude. Who the heck is knee deep in a set list of 50 songs? Not Rick, not me. You!! Just you! Haha. Anytime a musician is knee deep in learning 50 new songs they definitely ain't also spending time lost in arpeggios.

[@merrillmusic]

Hey Rick, is there a transcription of this tutorial? Thanks, mate!

[@tiluriso]

Great.

[@ronpaulrevered]

Sounds like "It's Ice" by Phish

[@patpogoallroundguitarist5814]

I’ve noticed you pick quite hard. Do you pick softer on 16 triplet notes for example or use even dynamic? You lift your left hand fingers off the fretboard very high. Is there any purpose with it? Do you see some advanges in doing that? Nothing offensive by the way...

[@YoussefRbahi]

Pat Pogo it has no technical advantage in doing that, quite the opposite, but it makes it much clearer for people watching to know what he is playing.

[@kevinfender1]

brill rick love it love that sound pick or fingers keep it up xx cool thanks from ireland i can only do fast mark knofler stuff

[@kevinfender1]

sorry finger picking

[@cmberrian]

Meanwhile, your solo ended 8 minutes ago and your band is 3 songs down the setlist😊

[@josephmarquez3227]

To break up the arpeggio pattern where would you apply chromatic notes to add some color to the run?

[@tothebatmobile1528]

Sounded like stranger things intro at the beginning

[@cruz.c]

To the Bat Mobile because that theme is just a major 7 arpeggio, with a bass synth melody

[@maxlove8894]

Probably because it’s just a major 7th arpeggio

[@adamwarlock5286]

Sounds similar because it is a major 7th arpeggio. Which I didn't know I just read the other comments and wanted to sound musically knowledgeable.

[@Elido]

So on the C7 you play the Bflat arp because it is off of the minor 7 scale degree in the C7? Is that the logic there? other than the sound. Just starting to dig into this stuff.

[@zaartac]

would love to see some product reviews

[@chipispowdercoatingcharles8444]

So hes got a C7 and decided to mix in a Bbmag arpeggio ok fine but why how did you think of this? Or was it just messing around? You say this was when you just started jazz.

[@doctorquest8956]

I feel like I just showed up halfway through the college semester.

[@FabrizioPeretti]

Rick i have a really hard time trying to make my arpeggios sound musical and melodic instead of mechanical. I'm a die hard fan of frank gambale, but when i study his phrasing I'm not able to implement his solutions in my playing... Even if he plays over a simple C G F F chord progression. How would you develop arpeggios phrasing and is there any book you'd recommend me or some type of exercises to stop running up and down like an idiot?

[@geraldbasso1782]

Just curious. What kind of picking are you using for these arpeggios?

[@guitarnerd1027]

Killer ... Any chance of transcription or tabs ? or just write a guitar book (with audio/video) and take my money please .. Thanx Rick

[@RickBeato]

I have a guitar book bro. The Beato Book which has everything in there that I talked about. You can find it on my website

[@guitarnerd1027]

Hey Rick, Already bought it, didn't get around to reading it yet. Didn't know it had guitar instructions as well, thought it was theory only. Now I'm excited to start working on it ... Thank you very much

[@banorilsk]

Another great video Rick! Unfortunately we can't see your picking hand :( Cheers!

[@mikemarabeas6575]

Is this considered super imposing the modes over a chord?

[@randomlight1069]

Is the Bowie vid available here?

[@80pedacito]

does his book have tabs?

[@mark-ze4en]

'slong as yer playin that older Dannylectrotic ,, maybe you could ship that new"Mosrite' lookin danny to me? Nice lookin rig!

[@HowlingUlf]

That's just sick! And the only cure is to buy the fucking book, and I don't mean Kama Sutra! I bought that thing and downloaded the PDF and now I'm gonna go back studying like there's no tomorrow, which in my case gets truer for each day ... I better hurry up! :D

[@johnjacquard2182]

do a video on those rich chords that use guitar distortion your old album rick thats

[@suites.74]

are you still doing that fleetwood mac thing

[@christophervaca7116]

Sounding off with Tony MacAlpine, please.

[@leemaples1806]

oh hell yes. please!

[@alexd2227]

Tony's extremely underrated and underappreciated. I'd love to see him get more exposure.

[@lionelcampos9868]

You look like Fred Sanford looking for glasses!

[@kale1305]

Rick playing the theme to Stranger Things

[@GerryBlue]

Are those strings 8's?