Scale Based Guitar Arpeggios:

by Jay Skyler

Arpeggios are chords that are broken up into single notes. Scale Based Guitar Arpeggios have the same notes as the chords they are derived from; but they are played like scale patterns, as they are laid out in the numerical or alphabetical sequence of the notes that make them up (e.g. R, 3, 5, 7, or A, C#, E, G# etc.) rather than in the voicings of the various chord grips like the chord based arpeggios. They may start on any scale degree depending on which hand position you are in. The whole neck can be covered in 5 forms just like the scales. When these are played picking only once per string (using hammers and pulls for strings with multiple notes on them) they are often referred to as sweeps.

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