Are these arpeggios?

[Jak Angelescu]

Hello there everyone! Are these technically arpeggios? I don't constantly just do the 135 so I didn't know what you would classify these as

 

[Jesse Salmons]

If it looks, walks, and talks like an arpeggio, then its gotta be..

Amazing playing jak! I would say those are, because isnt an arpeggio any chord shape not played as a chord but individually picked? Thats what ive always been told. Thats clean as hell i need to get on your level!

 

[Cedric L]

I would call them arpeggios. I mean you play a chord. But you don't play the notes of that chord at once. You play them one after another. And I think this is called an arpeggio.

 

[idssdi]

Yes those are definetely Arpeggio. They seem to be Dadd11, Bm7, D6 and can't really place the last one right now.

 

[Brian Haner Sr.]

Well, some are and some are not - technically speaking. The first one is a D but you are adding a suspended 4th ALONG WITH the 3rd. I suppose a case could be made for a D add 11. But I wouldn't make that case.lol. Same 4 notes are used in the intro of Sweet Child Of Mine (D A F# G) - but in a different order of course. So I would call it more of a lick than an arpeggio. The next two are definitely arpeggios. Bm7 D6. The last one is C# B & A which is a partial Aadd9 (no 5th). So that really is more part of an a D Major scale.
The FAR more important thing here is that you are playing the notes you want to hear. Who cares if they are or aren't arpeggios. (I know your curious - and that's a good thing). But this is actually a great lesson about how to use arpeggios and then mix them with partial scales, etc.
Playing all arpeggios would be uninteresting and predictable. Dare I say it: practicing. But mixing them in with other things is MUSIC.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

If it looks, walks, and talks like an arpeggio, then its gotta be..

Amazing playing jak! I would say those are, because isnt an arpeggio any chord shape not played as a chord but individually picked? Thats what ive always been told. Thats clean as hell i need to get on your level!

Wow thank you!! Practice playing on the clean channel and go for a percussive sound more than anything! That's what I do to try to practice getting clean

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Well, some are and some are not - technically speaking. The first one is a D but you are adding a suspended 4th ALONG WITH the 3rd. I suppose a case could be made for a D add 11. But I wouldn't make that case.lol. Same 4 notes are used in the intro of Sweet Child Of Mine (D A F# G) - but in a different order of course. So I would call it more of a lick than an arpeggio. The next two are definitely arpeggios. Bm7 D6. The last one is C# B & A which is a partial Aadd9 (no 5th). So that really is more part of an a D Major scale.
The FAR more important thing here is that you are playing the notes you want to hear. Who cares if they are or aren't arpeggios. (I know your curious - and that's a good thing). But this is actually a great lesson about how to use arpeggios and then mix them with partial scales, etc.
Playing all arpeggios would be uninteresting and predictable. Dare I say it: practicing. But mixing them in with other things is MUSIC.

Are there future lessons that help distinguish the difference between a lick and an arpeggio? How do we know the difference of what actually makes an arpeggio? I know it's the 135 of a chord but when you start talking about Bm7 and D6 I'm curious how those are arpeggios
Thank you for the compliment and clarification!

 

[Jesse Salmons]

Wow thank you!! Practice playing on the clean channel and go for a percussive sound more than anything! That's what I do to try to practice getting clean

Thank you ma’am! I will get right on it next time i play! My 5 string sweeps need a lot of work so its nose to the grindstone time!

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Hello there everyone! Are these technically arpeggios? I don't constantly just do the 135 so I didn't know what you would classify these as

Extended arpeggios.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Extended arpeggios.

Thank you Calvin!!

 

[Brian Haner Sr.]

Are there future lessons that help distinguish the difference between a lick and an arpeggio? How do we know the difference of what actually makes an arpeggio? I know it's the 135 of a chord but when you start talking about Bm7 and D6 I'm curious how those are arpeggios
Thank you for the compliment and clarification!

An arpeggio is made up of the notes of ANY chord. The notes are played one at a time, ascending or descending.
So a C Major arpeggio would be C E G - G E C.
A C Major7 would be C E G B - B G E C
A C7b5b9 would be C E Gb Bb Db - Db Bb Gb E C

If you mix the notes up - or add other notes, it is no longer an arpeggio.
It helps to know what notes are in a chord - but it's not Imperative. If you can play the chord, you can play the arpeggio. Just play the chord one note at a time.
Make sense?

 

[Jak Angelescu]

An arpeggio is made up of the notes of ANY chord. The notes are played one at a time, ascending or descending.
So a C Major arpeggio would be C E G - G E C.
A C Major7 would be C E G B - B G E C
A C7b5b9 would be C E Gb Bb Db - Db Bb Gb E C

If you mix the notes up - or add other notes, it is no longer an arpeggio.
It helps to know what notes are in a chord - but it's not Imperative. If you can play the chord, you can play the arpeggio. Just play the chord one note at a time.
Make sense?

OMFG I GET IT! So you have to know the notes in the CHORD in order to be able to determine IF it's an arpeggio and WHAT one it is!! The name of the arpeggio is based off the chord name

 

[Calvin Phillips]

OMFG I GET IT! So you have to know the notes in the CHORD in order to be able to determine IF it's an arpeggio and WHAT one it is!! The name of the arpeggio is based off the chord name

The entire extended arpeggios series shows you each chord and the arpeggios that goes with it. Including the minor 6 we learn In blues. I also believe you can find some of them in the theory posts on the forums. He really goes into detail of the positions.

 

[idssdi]

An arpeggio is made up of the notes of ANY chord. The notes are played one at a time, ascending or descending.
So a C Major arpeggio would be C E G - G E C.
A C Major7 would be C E G B - B G E C
A C7b5b9 would be C E Gb Bb Db - Db Bb Gb E C

If you mix the notes up - or add other notes, it is no longer an arpeggio.
It helps to know what notes are in a chord - but it's not Imperative. If you can play the chord, you can play the arpeggio. Just play the chord one note at a time.
Make sense?

Just wondering if you do inversion,like start on the third or the fifth, it is still an Arpeggio right?

 

[Chris Johnston]

Are there future lessons that help distinguish the difference between a lick and an arpeggio? How do we know the difference of what actually makes an arpeggio? I know it's the 135 of a chord but when you start talking about Bm7 and D6 I'm curious how those are arpeggios
Thank you for the compliment and clarification!

Hey Jak!
To answer your question :

A B min arpeggio would contain: 1 b3 5 - all the chord tones of a Bminor chord

The D6 arpeggio (D major 6) would be - 1 3 5 6 - all the chord tones of a D Major 6 chord

 

[Chris Johnston]

Just wondering if you do inversion,like start on the third or the fifth, it is still an Arpeggio right?

Yeah I'd say it's still an arpeggio Like EGC would be a Cmaj arp in 1st inversion, GCE would be a C major arp in 2nd inversion etc

 

[Brian Haner Sr.]

Just wondering if you do inversion,like start on the third or the fifth, it is still an Arpeggio right?

Yes. Still an arpeggio.