Tapped Arpeggios

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: This tutorial comes after receiving quite a few requests to tackle the subject: tapped arpeggios. We'll be analyzing the note sequences which will best highlight chord voicings, primarily focusing on major, minor, diminished and augmented for part 1. So a few things before we get started... 1) Focus on cleanliness. The point of this technique is to offer a...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: In the transcription below, we see tons and tons of notes. Be aware, however, there's really only three exercises here. We'll just be demonstrating the actual patterns in four different arpeggio shapes (minor, major, diminished and augmented).   We start with the three note arpeggio examined in part one, and play the sequence in three octaves, ascen...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So let's throw together some of these arpeggios into a musical context. We'll be highlighting a 6 1 5 4 progression in F. So, the chords are as follows:  Dm, F, C, BbThe progression then concludes with a D diminished run. Now, let's take this progression and apply it to some arpeggios in the context of what we've been doing. Note that some of the arpe...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Alright, to conclude, here's some food for thought. I've taken a simple A minor arpeggio and arranged it in a descending fashion with alternating inversions. We'll be playing nothing more than A, C and E, but in a way that'll have your brain twisting, without a doubt. This is a great exercise for building a knowledge of the key notes within the minor arpegg...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: Download the Etude in F Major Backing Track (Slow) at 105BPM

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: Download the Etude in F Major Backing Track (Fast) at 150BPM

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