String Skipping Arpeggios

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: Hey guys, and welcome to this lesson on string skipping arpeggios! We will be looking major and minor arpeggios, and how to transform them into string skipping arpeggios, and also adding other notes from the major and minor scale, creating those familiar "shred"-type arpeggio sequences. Later on, we will also be covering tapping arpeggios, as well as dimini...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: In this part, we take the major and minor arpeggios and scalar approach from the first part, and put those to use over a chord progression. The progression is Am, G, F, and below you can see the sequence I have played over it. As you can see I am also using hybrid picking in this example, but you can of course play this with a pick only, all legato, or whate...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: In the third part of our journey through string-skipping land, we encounter the mighty diminished arpeggios, heard through perhaps every guitar player's amp at some point of their career (let's face it guys, who hasn't had their "Yngwie-era"?). Anyway, here we'll look at some options for playing these moldy old arps with a fresher approach. This will enable...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: Time for tapping! In this example I use the same major and minor patterns found in the very first part, only adding the root and fifth in the right hand to create a tapping arpeggio. You could of course find numerous other ways of playing tapping arpeggios, but these examples are a good starting point. Personally I always tap upwards, but if you are accust...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: Diminished tapping arpeggios has the exact same technique as any other tapping arpeggios, with the main difference being that the consistent pattern lends itself very well to position shifting, and sliding up and down the neck. Pay attention to how I am shifting position during the sequence, and try to come up with different variations to this, mirroring my ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: This final example is the exact same sequence as in Part 5, but with a superimposed shuffle rhythm. The idea is to try to keep that rhythm going whatever you do, or wherever you go on the fretboard. This will REALLY free up your improvisation, and your use of all these arpeggios in soloing. Once you've nailed this, check out my other tutorials on timing and...

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