Easy Beginners Guitar Lessons – How to Improve Your Technique by Playing Arpeggios on Your Guitar

pSince 1957 arpeggios have been gradually phased out of guitar instructional material, if you are a newbie guitar player you probably don#39;t have the faintest idea what I#39;m talking about./ppHowever, there#39;s a good possibility you already know how to play arpeggios, guitar players have invented all sorts of fancy names for their arpeggio techniques./ppIf you have heard Eddie Van Halen#39;s tapping technique, or Vinne Moore#39;s sweep picking style or maybe you already do some finger picking songs on acoustic guitar… if you have heard these players or play finger style guitar you already know what an arpeggio sounds like!/ppO.K., you know the sound but what exactly are arpeggios and how can they help you improve your technique and ear? Arpeggios are simply the musical word musicians use for #39;broken chords #39;i.e., notes of a chord played separately as opposed to all of the notes being played at once./ppCompare the normal way of playing a chord on the guitar whereby your strumming hand action is similar to that of flicking water off the back of your hand. Whereas, if you played the same chord only this time taking your time across the strings so each note had time to sound (and have impact on your ear), the audible effect would be similar to putting a piece of paper in the spokes of a bicycle wheel./ppSince wind instruments like the saxophone, clarinet and flute can only play one note at a time the students learn to #39;hear#39; chords by playing arpeggios./ppHere#39;s a simple way to improve your guitar technique and develop your ear#39;s ability to hear inside a chord./ppHouse Of The Rising Sun – song study/ppAm | C | D | F |brAm | C | E7 | E7 |brAm | C | D | F |brAm | E7 | Am | E7 |/ppThe House Of The Rising Sun is in 6/8 time, which means six eighth notes to each bar, guitarists have found an neat way to add interest to slow songs in 6/8 by playing seven notes to the bar; the way this works is the second and third notes are played twice as fast as the other notes (these notes are calledbrsixteenth notes), like this…/ppStandard 6/8 time = 1 2 3 4 5 6 = 1 bar; notice how all the notes are evenly spaced./pp6/8 variation = 1 [2 3] 4 5 6 7; notes in [ ] as played twice as fast as the other notes./ppTry playing an Am chord both ways./ppAmbr-0—-br-1—-br-2—-br-2—-br-0—-br-x—/ppstandard version/ppAmbr———0——–br——-1—1——br—-2——–2—-br——————br-0—————-br——————/ppvariation/ppAmbr————0———br———-1—1——-br——-2]——–2—-br—-[2----------------br-0--------------------br----------------------/ppCbr-0----br-1----br-0----br-2----br-3----br-x----/ppstandard version/ppCbr---------0--------br-------1---1------br----0--------0----br------------------br-3----------------br------------------/ppvariation/ppCbr------------0---------br----------1---1-------br-------0]——–0—-br—-[2----------------br-3--------------------br----------------------/ppDbr-2----br-3----br-2----br-0----br-x----br-x----/ppstandard version/ppDbr---------2--------br-------3---3------br----2--------2----br-0----------------br------------------br------------------/ppvariation/ppDbr------------2--------br---------3----3------br------2]———2—br-0-[0----------------br---------------------br---------------------/ppFbr-1----br-1----br-2----br-3----br-x----br-x----/ppstandard version/ppFbr---------1--------br-------1---1------br----2--------2----br--3---------------br------------------br------------------/ppvariation/ppFbr--------------1-------br-----------1-----1----br-------2]———-2–br-3–[3----------------br----------------------br----------------------/ppE7br-0----br-0----br-1----br-0----br-2----br-0----/ppstandard version/ppE7br----------0--------br-------0----0------br----1---------1----br-------------------br-------------------br-0-----------------/ppvariation/ppE7br-------------0--------br----------0-----0-----br------1]———–1–br—[0—————–br———————-br-0——————–/ppTry out these new ways of playing arpeggios next time you practice the guitar./ppAnd now I#39;d like to invite you to get free access to my How To Remember 1,000 Songs eCourse. You can download the course for free at: a target=_new href=http://www.guitarcoaching.comhttp://www.guitarcoaching.com/a./ppYou#39;ll learn about hit song templates, a target=_new href=http://www.guitarcoaching.comeasy chords/a, simple scales, red hot rhythms, and successful practice strategies in text, audio and video./ppFrom Mike Hayes – The Guitar Coaching Guy the Express Guitar System./ppArticle Source: a href=http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mike_P_Hayes target=_newhttp://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Mike_P_Hayes/abra href=http://ezinearticles.com/?Easy-Beginners-Guitar-Lessons—How-to-Improve-Your-Technique-by-Playing-Arpeggios-on-Your-Guitarid=4143072 target=_newhttp://EzineArticles.com/?Easy-Beginners-Guitar-Lessons—How-to-Improve-Your-Technique-by-Playing-Arpeggios-on-Your-Guitarid=4143072/abr/p