Rock Guitar Secrets — 94 Welcome to Adventures in Arpland, Part 2! In chapter 9 (pg. 81) we examined three-note arpeggios of major and minor chords; we'll now be moving on to the four- note seventh chords and their arpeggiations. There are a number of good reasons for learning how to use these arps: - They make the fingerboard easier to deal with, since the rough division into scale positions get’s broken down further. This will help you break out of the rut of scale doodling and give you a deeper understanding of the scale. = Arpeggios are made of chord tones. Chord tones are "home" notes, notes that one uses in improvisation to lead to, or resolve to. This helps you to create more musical melodies. Important and practically a prerequisite for learning how to apply these arps without problems is proficiency with the five major scale positions (see chapter 5, pg. 44), as the following arps are contained within them. So if you're not comfortable enough yet with these scales, I’d recommend going back to that chapter again. THE FOUR CHORD TYPES If you build up four-note diatonic chords on each note of a scale, the result looks like this: ' 0 mu w ¥ wow Ca’ Dm’ Em’ Fa’ Am’ Bm** Four different chord types are produced: 1) major’ = 2.) minor! 3) dom? 4) half-dimished For each of the scale positions of the major scale, there is now one fingering position for each type of chord, So, to grasp the organization of the entire fingerboard, all you need to do is learn five arpeggios for each chord type. All together, that’s only about 20 arpeggios to learn in order to have total comprehension. Not really that much, eh? Here are the arpeggios. First try learning the five maj’ arps, then the m’ and then the rest. What's really important is to try to see the scale patterns surrounding the arps.oe Four-Note Arpeggios - Chapter 11 95 The five major 7 arps ee : —le 7 ele g = = oe i = ° pee ee pattern 2 CATarp. pattern 3 CAlarp. o# : T a 2 ° 3 e | o« * © pattern 4 Carp. ° pattern § Carp ° © 2-@ ° ° ° * ° | ff © -° —e pattern 1 "arp.Rock Guitar Secrets 96 The five minor 7 arps ° pattern 2 Dmarp. = pattern 3 Dm’arp. © ‘© - = | ={ tet tet tetst = = I B © © pattern 4 Dm’arp. T © e e oe ee ee es ° + < pattern 5 Dm’arp. ° pattern 1 Dm’arp.a Begg ee Four-Note Arpeggios Chapter 11 the five dominant 7 arps iE pattern 2 Sa SSS Garp. v pattern 3 Carp. @/e 0@ oe 2 ° ° ° 4 | pattern 4 Garp. ee ele ol fe ° Le pattern 5 Glarp. oo! o@ | pattern 1 Garp. ®Rock Gultar Secrets ee 98 oe The five minor 755 (half-diminished) arps (@)) — ° BE e fee = bat @ rel ° pattern 2 Bm™arp. o- e ! = | o o ° ° = al pattern 3 Bm"Sarp. = pattern 4 8m*Sarp. oo | @ e ° @ @| ae l|® pattern 5 mSarp. pattern 1 Bm’*Sarp.