Intro to Arpeggios
Tutorial: Part 2
The basic triad that makes up a major or minor chord, an unembellished major or minor chord, is the root, the third, and the fifth. So we will start with the first note in the G major scale, which is G, and we will call that our 1. Then we will count up to three; 1, 2, 3, so that's our third. Then we will go up to the fifth; 3, 4, 5. Moving right along. We will go to the next note in G major. Which is A, and again, this will now be our root, so that's one. We will count up to three; 1, 2, 3, there is the third note in the scale which is C.
Then we are going to go up to our fifth, 3, 4, 5, and that's E. So we are going to play those in order: root, third, fifth. We have the arpeggios for A here in the key of G major, which is A minor. Moving right along, we will go up to the next note B here at the ninth fret of the fourth string. So that's our root; 1, 2, 3, that's our third. Let's try for the third, we have got 3, 4, 5, and that's our fifth.
So we have B, D, and F#, and that's B minor, which is the third chord in the key of G major.
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When you open first string in the third fret on the second string. So that's again.
The D chord here, and that's going to be the first finger at the sixth fret on the first string, third finger on the eight fret of the third string.
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