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Welcome to guitarlessons.com, I’m Nate Savage and in this lesson, we’re going to learn a little bit about sweeping 7th chord arpeggios. Sweeping 7th chord arpeggios feel a little bit different in sweeping Tri-arpeggios because you have a little bit more of up and down strokes instead of just regular like down, down, down, down or up, up, up, up. So, it feels more kind of like a hybrid picking than it does sweep picking or regular alternate picking. So let me play an example for you and then I’ll show you how the right hand works on it.
[Demonstration]
So let me teach you the shape with your left hand first and then we’ll get into the mechanics of what our right hand is doing. It’s basically this arpeggio right here is a C-shape arpeggio. All you’re going to do is add the 7th, the Major 7th of that arpeggio, that E-major arpeggio to that chord. So what you basically have is just add a D sharp to it. So if your third finger comes up and grabs the 6th fret on you’re A-string, that’s going to be your 7th and then you can play the next three notes just like you would a regular E-major arpeggio with the C-shape. Then you’re going to add the D-sharp again right here, that’s your E, and finish up the arpeggio like you would normally.
So let’s take a look at the right hand and see how this effects our picking on this in. So I’m starting this very first note as 7th, I start on the 7th just because I like the way it sounds and it’s convenient, easy to get, just rumble out the E, the root. Start with the down stroke, up, down, down, down, up, down, up, pull up, up, down, up, up, up, down. So you probably notice that these arpeggios feel a little bit different. To me they’re kind of like I’m playing a pentatonic scale and an arpeggio all at the same time cause I have some up, down parts and I have some parts where I’m doing all down strokes or all up strokes too. So just be aware of that when you’re learning any kind of 7th arpeggio.
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