Arpeggios
All of the chords discussed on the opposite page are used in Blues, but the seventh chord is particularly important in lead playing, especially when it is used as an arpeggio. An arpeggio is a chord played one note at a time. A C seventh arpeggio is shown next. In this example the arpeggio is shown along one string. Like any scale, it is helpful to learn arpeggios along one string.
As with scales, there are five different positions for playing arpeggios across the neck, which follow the five chord forms. Here is the E form of a C seventh arpeggio.
C Seventh Arpeggio - E Form
Note: All fingerings in this book are suggestions only. Feel free to use any other fingerings if you find them more comfortable or practical.
Class Sessions
1- Developing a Theme
2- Moving Licks
3- Grace Notes
4- Set Rhythms
5- More Set Rhythms
6- Two Bar Rhythms
7- Ties
8- Across the Bar
9- Triplets
10- Triplet Set Rhythms
11- Sliding Scales
12- Major Pentatonic - Other Forms
13- Chords and Arpeggios
14- Major Pentatonic Scales
15- LESSON TWENTY TWO
16- 12 Bar Arpeggio Riff
17- Arpeggio Solo
18- Sixteenth Notes
19- Set Rhythms With Sixteenths
20- The C Form
21- INTRODUCTION
22- Slow Blues Solo
23- Tremolo
24- The Blues Scale
25- Blues Licks
26- Blues Solo
27- Higher Up
28- The Trill
29- The D Form
30- LESSON THIRTY ONE
31- The Rake
32- Twelve-Eight Time
33- The A Form
34- LESSON THIRTY THREE
35- The G Form
36- Combining Major and Minor
37- Rhythm Notation
38- Common Picking Directions
39- Adding the Minor Third
40- Summary of Scales
41- Chords
42- A New Solo
43- Note Values
44- G Form Solo
45- A Form Solo
46- C Form Solo
47- Diagrams
48- Arpeggios
49- Dotted Notes
50- Combining Forms
51- Tablature
52- The Shuffle
53- Tablature Symbols