How to Play the Major 9 Arpeggio on the Guitar

[Demonstration]
Welcome to guitarlessons.com. In this lesson, we’re going to be learning a major 9 arpeggio that extends all the way up to fret board and to do that, we’ll learn the first little bit of it and then just repeat it on two octaves, and then we’ll have the whole thing learned. So let me show you the basic shape start on your E-string on the 5th fret on the A-note. For that note, I played B on the 2nd fret with your middle finger. Then we’re going to go to a C# with our pinky on the 9th fret, 7th fret on the A-string with the index finger. Then you go to the 11th fret with your pinky. So that’s your whole major 9 arpeggio, I’ll play it for you slowly just that one little part.
[Demonstration]
As you could see on this little part, I’m using all hand rounds so I picked the first note, hammer on, hammer on. On the next string, pick the first note of that string then hammer on from there too. So in this particular shape, the first note we played is our route or one. The second note we played was our 9 or the 2, third note we played was a 3rd, fourth note we played was the 5th of that chord, and finally the last note we played was the 7th.
So that’s the lay-out of that particular arpeggio. Now all we’re going do now is move up an octave from the A that we started on to the 7th fret on our D-string and put the exact same thing. Then we’ll have that down and we go one more octave up to complete our arpeggio.
So mess around with this and move it around over the fret board. It doesn’t matter where you start it. You can move it to a B, D, whatever. Move it around a bunch of places and if you want to hear some playing like this, go check out some Greg Howell, maybe some Frankie Valli, they use ideas like this a lot.


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