4 Arpeggio Shapes to Master The Fingerboard

In today's livestream I go over four arpeggio shapes that will help you master the fingerboard.
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Right there with you. Wish i had been able to access knowledge like this. I started in ‘61 and by the time the mid 60’s rolled around i was making records and playing all the time but i didn’t know a darn thing. Went to war, came back and enrolled in music theory at the age of 24 but none of this kind of stuff was ever mentioned. The only guitar teachers i knew were teaching how to play old standards which was cool and all but nothing like this. Only discovered spread triads when I found this channel about six years ago. It’s a little late in the game for me but still enjoy listening and learning. Good luck to you and have fun.

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@@libertyshooter He will if enough people buy the arpeggio course!

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I don't have your dexterity or speed Rik BUT I do know what you're doing and that's the point, Learn as much as you can...we can't all be Eddie, but we can be ourselves...if anyone else is reading this, don't give up, don't be put off, be yourself, watch, listen and learn and you'll find yourself and you'll get there.

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It takes hours a day. Set up a section of it work slow til ur confisent then another section then put them together. Hours is what it takes to be great

[@leamanc]

​@mobeus84 Speed and dexterity take daily practice but not hours per day. 20 to 30 minutes of purposeful practice will get you there. The problem is most people's practice time is not purposeful. It's aimless noodling.

[@mobeus84]

@@leamanc maybe for u it took 20 min a day. Im positive thats not the case for most. Im a guitar teacher played for 30 years. You are very correct about purposeful practice still in my experience in order to be free flowing and confident 2-3 hrs a day is what i would ask.

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55 isn't too old if you're healthy. I wasted 10 yrs (from 40 to 50) stuck in beginner mode, not taking learning seriously, thinking (quite incorrectly) that I needed to have started as a kid and couldn't develop the hand dexterity as an older beginner. At age 50 I met someone about my age who could play really well and said he'd been playing about 3-4 yrs. I wanted to cry. I decided to really buckle down and dedicate myself to learning. Now I'm 54 and after using Justin Guitar course and 1 1/2 years of in-person lessons along with daily playing, I'd consider myself intermediate level player now and I have so much fun just being a bedroom player. If you have the itch, jump back in!

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I have been watching a master teacher for years. thank you Rick.

[@danriley5848]

Great video Rick, I wish that I could have learned from you years ago. I came up with a similar arpeggio approach years ago that really helped me open up the fretboard. Excellent as always and keep it coming.

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This is great, Rick! I will be teaching these exercises to my students.

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[@harrisonbergeron5393]

I"m 53 and never, ever thought I would understand music. All of a sudden 2 years ago I got a music theory video in the youtube algortihm after watching some Alman Brothers concerts, I watched, and was like 'hey, I understand' Picked up my daughters guitar and started. I'm not great or anything in that time frame, but I know all the notes, can play chords, triads and some simple stuff...and can follow Rick's video here. Anyway, long story short, I didn't think so either, but you can be if you give it a try :)

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@@harrisonbergeron5393I started last summer at 53 as well! Kudos to you.

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@@Hilaire_Balrog Nice!

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Love how your fingerboard mirrors the Abby Road album. Love your work too Rick!

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[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

The first arpeggio shape is a partial (lower) C/D shape, the second is a first position G with an alternate non-open string, the third is a partial F (upper)shape, the fourth is a partial (upper) C/D shape. The previous statement merely identifies the correlation to chord shapes and helps to reinforce relativity made available on the guitar neck. A complete major scale can be derived from each chord shape in that position.

[@microsmart714]

You can use the caged shapes to remember the open voiced and closed voices arpeggios if you are struggling to remember them. CAGED shaped acted like a visual reference for me

[@frettingitforward]

Cool vibe RB’ Feels like I’m sitting at my friends house chillin’ playing/talking shop/guitar 🙋🏽‍♂️

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Rick is a BEAST on the guitar.

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Just bought it. Looks amazing!

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Just got your bundle. Now I’m gunning for your Arpeggio Master Class.

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Listening to these is 100x better than the Spotify top 10 lmao

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Luv it! Cheers Rick. x

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Thank you for this!

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That SG guitar is so beautifull. Nice color.

[@DynastarElectronics]

Rick: First time poster on You Tube. (I know ... wow).. I just wanted to say how much I enjoy your all your videos. I really do. Very pleasant to watch your videos and interviews. Dying to go through some of your lessons, but I have time constraints servicing all musicians needs. By the end of the day I need to plop on the couch for a breather, so not much time to power on the studio. Forgive me sir. Keep up the great work. I loved this arpeggio lesson. Anyone who plays an SG has **got ** to know what they are doing:))) Take care.

[@felixayala05]

This is wonderful.

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Would love to see you interview Colin from the UK. He's a wonderful person and an excellent player. I follow both of you on utube. The guitarists..

[@KarstenJohansson]

When I hear an add9 chord, Enya always comes to mind. Even as you were showing it over the fretboard, you could totally jam that over Watermusic and so many of her other pieces, and it would sound awesome.

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

Interview with Nick Johnston would be so good, or Richie Kotzen as well… this is definitely the arpeggio lesson I needed. Thank you. 🙏

[@leechild4655]

25:49 that walkdown sounded like swan lake, a few seconds later you mention, look it sounds like classical music doing these scalular excercises. lol spot on!

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Just love that Pelham Blue SG

[@GYMusic]

Very helpful, as always Rick, I have learned many bad playing habits over the last 65 years.

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[@Youtubemademeaddahandle]

Because an instrument's tuning establishes relationship of strings in discrete pitches, so, also, are the scales and everything derived from them related.

[@paulkramer9666]

And at 19:20, it may sound like Aaron Copeland, but it also sounds like The Amboy Dukes - "Scottish Tea".

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Neato Beato!

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This is the greatest guitar Ive ever seen

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Looking good Rick.

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Love it

[@bobparsonsartist564]

I would love to hear a sample of improv using this. Metheny warms up with arpeggios like this. I dont have this for a foundation, but I was taught with a triad approach by a western swing master, so it makes so much sense...

[@paulkramer9666]

Beginning right around time stamp 17:08, you're playing something not dissimilar to The Amboy Dukes song - "Migration". I believe that's the song.

[@ogmakefirefiregood]

I actually learned how to turn arpeggios into chords. Neat.

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Greetings, Rick!

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Spread triads immediately sound like J.S. Bach - love it

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It's so funny, I was gonna say the same.

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Reminds me of in the heat of the nite,song,by Bill withers?,and the televishonshow.

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Hey Rick! Do one on Ida Presti.

[@jtlemay4878]

Im stuck in shapes so thank you

[@dscataglini]

When I was 16 or so I spent 15 minutes mapping the notes on a piece of paper up to the 17th fret, just so that I'd be familiar with the overlap at the 12th fret. Then I spent about an hour memorizing it, I've been remembering it ever since (I'm 52). Lately I realized the only 4 notes I'm sometimes unsure of are the bottom 4 strings at the 11th fret. I guess I don't venture there much

[@johanburger4454]

I've always played by ear and followed patterns of my heros, so it would be finally nice to know what they actually blady doing 😂

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Love all your courses! If I already own your guitar courses, is there any way to get the PDF you talk about? Thank you.

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Oh. You had had to throw that Bach in there and crush our souls 😂🤘

[@StarDarkAshes]

Everybody has their own hand shape and their own technique so what I find is that whenever I’m practicing something such as an arpeggio and it has a weird shift where you either have to choose a barre or do some finger shifting or something I try every technique until I get one that works for me and that’s smooth. Everybody has different length fingers and different body types so what may work for someone else is not necessarily going to work for you so you just have to spend time with it and do some experimenting. Sometimes it will be appropriate to do a finger as opposed to a barre and I do agree that the finger jumping from one string below to above is not practical unless you’re playing something that’s really slow and that kind of sounds weird as well. I’ve never got that to sound smooth. Also, it depends whether you’re playing really high up the neck or playing toward the tuners. That’s why it’s good to do it all over the neck because especially when you get way toward the opposite side, it’s gonna be appropriate to do a bar in a lot of cases where you can’t, fit two fingers on a fret, such as pivoting one finger over the top of the other finger. Or vice versa,so you have to spend time with it while you’re practicing to get the decisions already made so that when you go to play, it happens automatically. Sometimes I’ll decide on a particular technique and even months later I’ll realize there’s a better way to do it and then it just takes a little time to unlearn what was practice and has become automatic

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Pretty crazy I played by ear for about 7 or 8 years maybe longer did not know nothing about chords hardly I didn't think so when I got a male bae book I was playing 7th and 9th and all that and didn't even know it I knew all the cords just didn't know where to put them

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[@twy6280]

It's interesting. I used to practice a lot in my early twenties - scales, arpeggios, chord construction etc. Turns out I'm not a natural guitarist, BUT even though I barely play these days, I still know my way around the fretboard and can play in any major or harmonic minor key without having to think and can name every note on the fretboard. It's a shame I'm not very good though 😕

[@hrossaman]

I've worked on scales throughout the years, but this covers so much harmonic ground so much faster

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Do I dare say I love you Rick..? I think so

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Wow, the guitar sounds like an Violin.....cool

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Reminds me of Pebber Brown. God rest his soul.

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It’s a bit confusing for me but I think it hope with the arpeggio class, it will make more sense - I kissed the bundle - Rick can i get a discount code for the arpeggio class ?

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Nothing wrong with getting an engineering degree 👏👏👏

[@IanNowland]

I wish you could do tabs that's the only was I know to play

[@528Circle]

24:30ish giving me terminator vibes on the keyboard.

[@meechomarcho]

If I own the arpeggio course and the quick lessons pro course already, can I get your new arpeggio pdf?

[@jimsharrow1950]

Rick, how can I use arpeggios on five string banjo ? Or, what shapes will give these results on banjo, please ?

[@frenchthomasmusic]

Did you ever had Laszlo Buring on your channel ?

[@helmutprodinger345]

Dylan is a leftie? Does he play leftie guitars?

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SOLD!

[@dominicfelde]

Love that strap - who makes it ? I can see the logo but it’s not legible - does anyone know who makes that guitar strap ?

[@Gee-no]

I'm hearing Rush. The Trees!

[@troytyner9589]

Possibly a dumb question Rick lol but are there any general rules to these shapings when in alternate tunings?

[@andrewplace9417]

If the strings have the same kind of intervals, like down a half step, etc, the shapes would be the same, but notes different obviously, if it’s like an open tuning or something, shapes would be totally different

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I love you❤❤❤

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BPM metronome here!

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An Aphex Twin interview!

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Does anyone know if he owns any PRS guitars?

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He does, I don't recall which model(s) though.

[@timwindling]

When I realized that CAGED is just the arpeggios, and that the arpeggios are just the triads, it blew my little mind away.

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Is that a Jeff Teweedy SG?

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Nope. Beato custom.

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Off-topic! Have you heard the Chris Young song 'Young love and Saturday Nights'? Ripping off Bowie and Mick Ronson's riff from Rebel Rebel. According to Chris Young, they got the rights to this song by somebody who bought the entire, or a large portion of Bowies catalog, and is going to recycle it in similar manners. Comments?

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❤

[@peterglass9296]

What the hell is a spread triad? Not the notes, what is the rule. Is the rule the same for all inversions? Or is there a different rule for each scale degree? What happens if you play an extended or altered chord?

[@garyrochussen3430]

I would also like to know the answer to your question!

[@snuffbox2006]

the basic triads are "close", meaning nearby. Spread triads are when you play the same 135, but they are farther away, giving them a more open, spacey sound. In many cases, one takes the 3 of the chord and moves it to one of the thinner strings. They can be difficult to fret. For example take Dminor triad Root position R5b3 x57x6x use fingers 132 1st inv b3R5 x8x710x10 use fingers 214 2nd inv 5b3r x12x10x use fingers 311

[@markbaker7996]

What is that Gibson guitar model? Also, i tried the Contact form on your site and it won't accept it without a Captcha but there wasn't a Captcha offered.

[@microsmart714]

i think it’s his signature model

[@drvoodoo3073]

The 4 shapes: 10:00

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👍🏻✌🏼😊

[@MrAschiff]

Sounds like Close Encounters

[@TheGuitarman1968]

I was thinking the same exact thing while listening to Rick play these arpeggios....Do-Do-Do-Do-Do. Lol 😆

[@claytonjohn6473]

My daddy was a Gibson, my mama was a Fender, thats why they call me Mindbender

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Any chance recording music is on this teaching platform ideas?