Learn To Play Guitar: Warm-Ups Part 5

Danny Grady: Arpeggios are great, because they sound more melodic then just doing the straight chromatic exercises if have a nicer sound to them. And arpeggios often times require you to use your third and your fourth fingers to kind of swivel off of and to plant and base and to initiate things with and that's better than just using your first and your second fingers to initiate things all the time.

So let's take a look at what I am talking about. We'll take a look at this one of my favorite arpeggios, the C major 7 arpeggio here at the seventh fret, I'll play it for you. Once I am done I just come up a half step and then I descend down the arpeggio. Once I am done descending I just come up a half a step and play the exact same pattern again, then up a half step and descend.

Now of course you want to get this to where there is no gaps between the ascending and descending. I left the gaps just to show you how I was moving up a half step, each time, but this is how it should sound.

Now thing to remember about speed especially when you are trying these things for the first time is you don't want to go any faster than your hand's will take. Speed is one of those things that you just want to let come to you. So as you are practicing this, start up purposefully slow and then if you find yourself naturally picking some parts faster and that's fine, you want to let that happen. But for the most part you want to keep things slow and to your hand adjust in your mind, adjust and you get use to doing your pattern.

Rush: The intro starts on the low E string and it goes like this. So then it's the B, A, and see I keep this B string ringing on the G, you like the whole thing.


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