One shape for all guitar arpeggios: Pure Magic!

Playing arpeggios on a guitar can be challenging. With this little trick you can play all 7th guitar arpeggios with just one shape copy and then repeated over three octaves. Impress yourself and your friends with this awesome guitar concept and technique every guitarist should know!
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Now this I can remember. Memorizing all the other positions of all arpeggios is daunting to say the least

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Knowing the 3, 5, and 7 interval positions in relation to the tonic is very helpful.

[@QJamTracks]

Indeed MellowJim!

[@jeanenviedapprendre]

I would combine the triad shapes with the perspective that extended chords (like 7s) are adding thirds above the base triad. Example: a major triad (C E G) has a major third (C E) below a minor third (E G). Cmaj7 (C E G B) adds a major third on top (G B). Changing the higher interval to a minor third (C E G Bb) would create a dominant chord C7. So I'm combining intervals to create a huge variety of chords. For the arpeggios in this video there are only two intervals: major and minor thirds. Memorize finding M3 or m3 on the same string or adjacent string. Mix and match for major, minor, diminished, augmented, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, or 13ths.

[@QJamTracks]

Yes that's a good idea of course. I did this those things in separate videos: Building Chords part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d33Uc6OKf9d2qbM Building Chords part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6LFnWCCaN6XjqM Modal Arpeggios Part 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqHFn3WqoNCqqLc Modal Arpeggios Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJaUc61urNKUjK8

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Building chords part 1 thx this is exactly what I wanted I hope

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Clear and to the point without unnecessary rambling to extend the video. Extremely well done!

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Thank you D C !

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I'm a huge fan of useful simplifications. This is a great way to construct arpeggios.

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Wonderful teaching for slow learner's like myself 🙏

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An absolutely brilliant approach... I would never think to start from the 7th but yes, this solves so much!

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Glad I could help you Dragisa :)

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Very cool. Will try this tomorrow. Thanks for posting.

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Man this changed my life and made all the arpeggios chaos looks simple and finally knows every single arpeggio thank you so much 🥰 🙏 🙌 ❤

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best explanation of arps I've run into yet and I watched a lot of other ones over the past few months.

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Thanks Ian!

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Thanks a lot man - woah. I been trying to memorize all the major arpeggios by memory. In the major key. Your ascending pattern made it all click. easy mode

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Jaw droped how simple and elegant your explanetion is. Without knowing all this years I have been using few of this shapes without understanding what I was doing but now thanks to your video it's like a blanket was taken off my eyes. Thank you !

[@QJamTracks]

Thanks for your comment!

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Good teacher! clear and useful, shapes for the eye and examples for the ear. Best!

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Great! Now tackling the approach to playing triad arpeggio pairs over a chord becomes - much clearer. Thank You!

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I am not sure which direction to go in. I feel like I should learn chords but to play what ? I know the major and minor arpeggios and I’m getting them under my fingers up and down the neck. This memorization I feel has to be total. The chord charts are massive as you know and I confess I don’t even like jazz or want to play it. My fingerpicking is fairly strong. Your videos are next level lol. The difference is quite obvious, I’m glad the algorithm finally brought you to my feed . I’m scanning your library today . Thank you.

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By far the easiest, clearest arpeggio lesson for beginners on youtube :) Absolutely perfect, congrats :)

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Thank you Pinaki!

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Well done! Definitely much easier patterns to get around compared to the regular ones in most books. 👍 Cheers.

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[@JSDJerry]

I like the explanation of the different kinds of 4 note arpeggios. But, playing a shape across two strings is difficult because of the stretch. IMHO, the 4 note shapes are just as easy to remember if played across 3 strings, and the stretch is much less. Using the shape given In the video, that would put with the 5th as the only note on the 3rd, or highest string. Also, within 12 frets, the root occurs 5 times, not 3. I realize this is a starting point for many guitar players, but playing an arpeggio from the same starting note as the lowest tone, like the 7th, is pretty limiting. All that said, I’ve found the best exercise is to learn first 7R35, then learn each inversion, e.g. R357, 357R, 57R3

[@QJamTracks]

You got a point there. But it's just (like you said) a starting point. A easy way to start of with 7 arpeggios for quick runs. It's just part of all the other (and in many cases better) ways to play arpeggios.

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[@nateb1804]

I like how by starting on the 7th note (for the arpeggio progression) rather than starting on the root you made a two-string repeatable pattern which requires less of a stretch between fingers. If you start the two-string arpeggio pattern on the root instead, then for some of these arpeggio shapes yo have to span 5 frets which is a bit of a stretch particularly if you're on the low frets. Great idea!

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Love theses ! I figured out how to play the minor and major arpegios this same way, with repeating patterns ! The good stuff with these patterns is they are still applicable on 8 string guitars ! Thank you so much for extending to 7ths chords !

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Thank you for your nice comment! :) Maybe I will do a video of the gear and the 'making of'...

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Thank you so much for this, I never thought about it until I saw your video. I like this 2 strings shape for reason that it give us consistent shape across every 2 strings.

[@QJamTracks]

You're welcome Azzam. It is indeed a convenient fingering :)

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This is a good system for playing seventh chords (works even better on the bass) but it is worth mentioning that these are all 'drop 2' chords, starting from the seventh in the bass, and that a 'normal' seventh arpeggio still starts from the root note.

[@QJamTracks]

Yes for the bass guitar this works too of course. Good idea :) And yes, it's true. They are all drop 2 chords...

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You're absolutely welcome Mr.Stax 👍

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[@latheofheaven1017]

This is very clear teaching, thank you. But... what you've shown us is not one shape for all guitar arpeggios, but five shapes for just the 7th chords. The only magic here is the cheek that you show with your video title!

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