The Long-Form Arpeggio Workout

Here's the next episode of Breaking Chords with The Long-Form Arpeggio Workout. As I mentioned in the video, I posted a lesson surrounding long-form arpeggios about three years ago and wanted to add this workout to the mix of lessons and material. It's a great technique boost and really forces you to think about the notes you are playing as they move and shift around the fretboard using these long-form arpeggio fingerings as a guide.
This lesson begins with selecting the key of E and revealing an E Major 7 long-form arpeggio on the neck. From there, we're shifting the arpeggio through the four seventh chord/arpeggio types - which include Major 7, Dominant 7, Minor 7, and Minor 7b5.
Once we've uncovered the four arpeggio types and arranged them on the neck using the long-form fingerings, the lesson closes with applying this material to a chord progression - which is a basic I-IV-V in E, which would function as Emaj7-Amaj7-B7 for our purposes here.
Needless to say, if you've been searching for an arpeggio-focused lesson, an intense technique-boosting workout, and a new way of becoming more comfortable with the notes on the fretboard - you'll find all of these ideas/areas and much more hiding in this lesson. So give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!
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[@spookybaba]

I just gotta say that you have a really nice smooth right hand picking technique.

[@dougstubbs4351]

Hell yeah I've been waiting for more of these lessons. I've been working with a metronome the past 2 months moving up 2bpm's every 2 weeks. I will definitely be incorporating this into the routine. Thanks for the video and knowledge. ✌️ Peace Man take care

[@GG5150]

More of this stuff please 🤟

[@voronOsphere]

Heck yeah!

[@vinarino9425]

Linear across the whole fretboard. Imagine each as a lap around the track (:D) After several weeks improvement is inevitable. Thumbs Up indeed!

[@stevet.4974]

Your lessons are so cool David, I can't get through them because I get inundated with ideas. All the chord theory stuff I committed to memory back in the day is paying off big time now, in your lessons. For example the E Major arpeggio lick, I've been playing that for years because I learned it from a book by Don Mock called Artful Arpeggios. I still have it, in all its dog eared glory. Taught me a lot man, and your presentation is a really cool reinforcement of how cool those ideas are, I had kinda forgotten about them. Thanks for another superb lesson.

[@skipneumann1]

I spent years playing the Johnny Smith arpeggio workout from one of his books

[@stephenmiller5023]

Thanks Man !!👍. You now have given me yet another exercise to practice late at night into the wee hours of the morning . I’m sure it will delight my wife to no end .😆😉👍. You also just got another subscriber. 😊. Much appreciated here. C-ya . BTW I’ve watched a bunch of your previous videos & wonder now why I only just today subscribed……🤔🤨. 😵‍💫. 😜

[@geoffhay2218]

...now I know what I'm doing late at night this weekend!

[@Krullmatic]

Another phenomenal lesson Dave! Could you please do a video about the correct picking technique?

[@Henrique-jk1um]

dude, this guy is a legend!

[@stevencollingwood4693]

Great and a sensible way to approach the guitar for real progress. Thanks very much Sir. I will employ this in my practice. Steven

[@Dcba964]

Great lesson David, wish you also show the 4 arp patterns starting with the root on the low E string. Cheers from France 👍🎸❤️

[@chriskoylemedia]

Awesome lesson, dude!!

[@greg77hot]

Thanks Dave ... Love Arpeggios !🤘

[@ChrisCGuitars]

Another fantastic workout to attempt..I just mastered your cascading sweep ...dammit hahaha 😆

[@barrydonovan88]

Hi Dave. How about a Breaking chords edition on Michael Lee Firkins??? Thanks. God bless.

[@beanpole8294]

love your channel. you + marty friedman's "melodic control" vhs are my favored guitar teachers

[@minisurfbanana]

Watching another lesson that will lead me to no where 😂😂😂

[@fredericdobbelaere7725]

La classe !"my friend "🤘🙏🎸🇺🇲🇨🇵

[@robertbernas1104]

David thank you so much as always! Keep on with all the great work - cheerz brutha!

[@andycbeers]

Thanks so much David that is a fantastic workout to add to my daily practice.

[@aquilarossa5191]

Did your teacher's plan not cover you well enough, so you had to resort to cooking up tasty arpeggio licks? At least you are showing us all how to cook them up, instead of just that Pinkman kid. Using the 7th to get the blue colour too :P

[@krudler406]

fun cool idea, thanks dave! 🔥🔥

[@geoffhay2218]

What a great lesson!

[@easter_sunday]

Hey Dave. I just wanted to drop a note as to how much I appreciate this channel. I’ve picked up far more than I would have thought in retrospect. Also, how do people come to terms with fingerpicking vs flat picking? (Question for other players). I could never get the hang of hybrid picking. What I do if I want to swap is to hold the pick with my middle finger, and then use my thumb, fore and ring fingers to pick. (Pinky is still available for volume swells).

[@hansenmarc]

Funny, I’d never noticed that the intro lick to Pretty Woman was just a dominant 7th arpeggio until I heard you play it with the emphasis on the flat 7. Then it just clicked.

[@fdre3wsd]

shoutout to eddie bobble head and cool collection

[@pistoFF]

Where did you buy your lava lamp?😅

[@antkn33]

Love that Star Wars poster. Where did you get it?

[@newrosesartworx4662]

sweet...love these musical exercises...

[@frankiedonofrio5438]

So needed this!!.. Thank you

[@uncleremus5046]

Best teacher & content on YT! TY 🍺’ski 🤘

[@robhead22]

Great lesson Thank you!

[@bobravenscraft5376]

Thank you I know the scales

[@MisterPoppy-sc1sj]

Thank a lot David

[@nicolasmaurin182]

Great. Thanks David

[@voronOsphere]

Excellent Chord/Arpeggio Theory Lesson, David! Thanks!!!

[@mikeford9176]

Excellent! Thanks

[@masterbuilder3166]

Excellent lesson 💯🎸

[@beanpole8294]

arpaygio arpedgio

[@bobravenscraft5376]

M7b5 my baby 😊

[@esteban1487]

Chord tones!

[@johnc.mitchelljr.2716]

✨

[@suzannecoholic1467]

way cool thanks!

[@crashdaddy261]

This was super helpful, because I keep learning one- or two-octave arpeggios in one position, but it didn't occur to me to connect them horizontally, so I'ma start doing that now. Thank you!

[@uragonertoo1335]

One of your best lessons and fits right in with what I have been practicing lately. Thank you !

[@sergedenovo2389]

What do the NUMBERS mean?? Dave? Guys? Is it the order of the note alphabet? :/

[@whiskersb5296]

The order of the notes in the scale. A major chord is the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes of the major scale.

[@voronOsphere]

A half-step is a Minor 2nd from the root note and a wholestep is a Major 2nd from the root note. The root note is also sometimes called "the one."

[@voronOsphere]

A "One Four Five Four" Progression in A Minor (based on the numbered degrees of the A Minor Scale) would be the One Chord: (A Minor), followed by the Four Chord (D Minor), the Five Chord (E Minor), and the Four Chord (D Minor), again.

[@justinatest9456]

Learn what the 'diatonic chords' of the Major Scale are, and how they are formed. This is a basic concept that a lot of theory is built on.