Breaking Chords - Pivot Arpeggios

Here's the next episode of Breaking Chords with Pivot Arpeggios.
This popular style of navigating arpeggios was introduced to rock players by the late-great guitar legend Gary Moore during his classic 'End Of The World' guitar solo from his 'Corridors Of Power' album. Once he gave rock fans an earful of these rapid-fire legato-infused arpeggio movements, guitarists were never quite the same as countless up-and-coming players took this fluid idea coming from Gary's fingers and pushed it even further.
This includes legends such as Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, Steve Vai, Nuno Bettencourt, and many other players. This style of arpeggio-playing allows you to use legato slurring between notes while making position-shifting and abrupt key changes possible with a few simple changes of the frethand and relocating the movements to other positions.
The ideas shared in this lesson include converting pivot arpeggio fingerings to include major 7th, minor 7th, and diminished 7th tonalities and sounds. After the basic shapes/fingerings are introduced, then we're moving these ideas through a harmonized major scale to flesh out an entire key, not to mention picking up a number of licks and phrases from players such as Steve Vai and Nuno Bettencourt. The additional licks really help to drive these ideas home and understand how you can convert these simple fretboard movements into some terrifying guitar licks, solos, and phrases.
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[@Beanoismycat]

Best lesson channel on KZbin

[@adozensparrows]

Best secret channel

[@patrickkish6662]

The Late Night Lessons arpeggio series is pure gold

[@ThrashRoC]

i Think i need more Arpeggio lessons :-D

[@ThrashRoC]

I find the mixture of theory and practice very successful here. It never gets boring ..

[@fredericadda]

Hi Dave! You're talking about a diminished chord ... isn't it technically a half-diminished chord (m7b5)?

[@evolutionmb]

The best part of all these lessons is listening to your dynamic playing!! You are so fluid, and make these passages look easy. You always have killer tone as well. 3 things: 1) I would love to have a Troy Grady-esque breakdown of your picking technique, 2) How you dial in and shape your gear. 3) Information on your own personal music Thanks!

[@davidsmith-jj4iq]

Garys first solo album,has loads of these arpeggios in it "back on the streets"

[@scottwaszak698]

Jesus, David. Is there anything you can’t expertly play??

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

I'm waiting for a Holdsworth lesson. But being a brand new subscriber, I don't know if maybe he's already done one.

[@MisterPoppy-sc1sj]

It's his job

[@MrKfree84]

Yes I'm the first viewer!....you are a guitar teaching master! Thanks for the vids man

[@MrKfree84]

I love how you make sick sounding riffs sound so effortless man, that's the best lesson I get from it, less is more

[@Thisischrisrao]

"less is not more; more is more" -yngwie malmsteen

[@marclevant6639]

Great lesson. I really enjoy your playing and your manner of teaching!!!

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Les is Moore? Seriously though, less is not more. But more isn't always better.

[@larrythomas7512]

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[@geneo7054]

Dude! You are cooler than the other side of the pillow!

[@davidcoward7462]

Absolutely amazing! Well done, David!

[@adamthirdbourne324]

Aaaack!! More brain streching theory. Thank you for this breakdown.

[@jboughtin7522]

I appreciate you touching on the picking a bit.

[@pat-enz]

You just changed my life! Thanks!

[@bairrock42]

Quick question... how are you picking these arpeggios? Up pull-off----------down -------up down hammer-on

[@fredericadda]

I think it's rather down up hammer-on on the second string. Although in theory your picking is more "correct" ...

[@mindcontrol67]

You don't see what he's doing at 1:46

[@warricksmythevideo]

Wow, dude, I'm just blown away with each video. Thanks heaps for sharing.

[@sawt00th]

Great lesson David. Managed to track down the digital version of the Guitar Player magazine you mentioned, looking forward to working through the examples

[@johnbedinghaus2390]

The B flat-G-E-D is considered half diminished or minor 7 flat 5. Moving the D down to D flat would make it technically a "diminished" arpeggio.

[@strivingx67]

So bad ass! I stare at your hands in many lessons like "wow!" 8-|

[@joebrooks3638]

You're becoming my favorite KZbinr 😈🤘

[@toneconsultant]

Good heaven’s. I tried to do this simple exercise. David, you’re burning! I can’t do the E minor 7 stretch well (Akiri T. From Loudness small hands), but I truly enjoy your lessons.

[@rokchops]

Great Lesson David, you are a brilliant Guitarist! It would be Really GREAT if you could one day do a profile on Rusty Cooley....

[@corndog1868]

Search here for (Sinful Demo Album 1985) featuring Nuno Bettencourt before Extreme and singer song writer Jose Anes before Rock Candy. Enjoy!!!!

[@ThrashRoC]

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[@ThrashRoC]

Best Lesson Channel on KZbin These Pivot Arpeggios are cooI Just learn l and useful ..i just learn it in every mode/Position etc.

[@vincentmensah9362]

Haaa. I love the zeal

[@jamesbossingham9694]

What are you talking about? Pivot Arpeggios?? All you are doing is playing random 3 string patterns next to each other what is the difference between any other patterns ? The term pivot is a made up term.

[@ctinbogdan6831]

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[@kevinalfrey2633]

Guess I need to turn my guitar into a coffee table! Dang man , we’re at ludicrous speed! Gonna need to stick to slow blues

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[@jibicusmaximus4827]

Does anyone watch without a guitar close by to do the lesson and just watch and soak it up but feel guilty and always plan to go back and learn it lol.

[@johnevered9640]

legitimately never thought of doing this! Great lesson as always

[@markbaird2657]

Aaa may Zing! Thanks again for all you show us!

[@J24777]

Is Impellitti Video next? I hope that you are going to show us.

[@MiKeHendrycks]

Thank you! I love these lessons. If I find one like this that’s very much up my alley I’ll add it into my daily technical practice. Keeps things fresh and keeps me thinking. Do you have a Patreon?

[@fdre3wsd]

I hear a lot of Dave Mustaine in this

[@redwind3475]

Love the Vai tapping lick!

[@han36solo]

Awesome lesson David!

[@arthurrendbeau6782]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Sweet. That's actually the same lick (without the lowest note) you showed us that Uli Roth uses in Sails of Charon, where he descends using that figure .in E prhygian dominant. One of my favorite licks since I first figured that solo out.

[@Alvin_C_York]

I can totally see the "Bark at the moon" solo in this lesson.

[@tonepoet]

Nuno does that same lick at 41 seconds into this song (the beginning is all finger tapping) in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWjakHV-fLhjZq8 He moves the shapes up diatonically.

[@72sidler]

Awesome video as usual !!

[@michaelberry530]

Cool lesson thank you.

[@MisterPoppy-sc1sj]

Thank you David

[@toneranger]

Love your lessons Dave, great to see Gary’s rock stuff being highlighted for the massive influence it had and still has on so many guitarists.

[@wulfenii64]

Love this kind of lesson.

[@andrejz8954]

Great man! :)

[@strat0871]

Killer lick !

[@Rat5alad]

Good and nice

[@mikejones-vd3fg]

very cool

[@denmar355]

Badass

[@vinfreeman1602]

Great!!

[@enricosenno7767]

Amazing vid!

[@MySuperAnt]

E G Bb D does not spell E dim7. It is Em7b5 E half dim or inversion of Gm6. The dim7 would be spelt E G Bb Db.

[@jalmartins]

Open mind lesson.

[@andrewjoseph2279]

So good, your picking technique is unreal. Very satisfying too watch lol👍🏻

[@BuzzworthyBand]

What is the best way to build speed with these? I usual hit a brick wall when slowly increasing the BMP on the metronome. Any tips?

[@patmcmacken1435]

Fantastic lesson. Gary Moore is surely missed. Keep up the great content and site. Liked your GP article on Andy Timmons.

[@ddaneh3090]

This is Magic, Thank You. Could you do a video on picking patterns?

[@Bradp18]

An amazing lesson as always! Thanks so much David!

[@Chewwy153qt]

Man, do you have a pulse? How you shred so effortlessly is amazing.

[@uncleremus5046]

🍺’ski you shred that easy & it’s not! Your ways to traverse the fretboard are endless! 🔥🤘

[@rodent1412]

What do you mean when you say a chord implies something else. Thanks j

[@crisprtalk6963]

You like this stuff!!! I can tell.

[@frankiedonofrio5438]

Great Video my Man!

[@waynegram8907]

Dave Brewster, why are you calling them PIVOT arpeggios, Where is the Pivoting note to modulate to a different key at? The Finger tapped note is always the ROOT note of the key?and you didn't show any harmonic minor Pivot Arpeggios

[@laurentrinaldi2339]

Merci David, excellent riff !

[@mindcontrol67]

Wayne you should probably do some research on the notes that make up the chords he does the Arpeggios on to understand the pivot term.The notes tapped do not indicate the root note but an extension of the chord he is doing the arpeggio on or tapping to another note in the scale, Also Harmonic minor is not a chord but a scale, he is outlining chords here.But you could easily do harmonic minor tonality this way.

[@waynegram8907]

I'm confused about he means by pivot term, what does he mean by pivot? because pivot would be a common note between two different key centers but he is not pivoting nothing so I don't know what he means by pivot arpeggios

[@mindcontrol67]

I'm sure the pivot means to pivot or toggle between the root and the 7th note behind it.

[@EarthAltar]

@@waynegram8907 You're getting too hung up on the nomenclature, and missing the whole point of the lesson. All you need to know is that it descends through the 5th, 3rd, root, and 7th then ascends in the opposite order. Call it whatever you like, pivot arpeggios, two string arpeggios, 7,1,3,5 arpeggios, doesn't matter. Shut up and play yer guitar!

[@adozensparrows]

Is there anything you can't play, Man?