Arpeggios are essentially just chords played one note at a time. Many guitarists, myself included, find them to be one of the more difficult techniques to acquire. They may sound simple, but the tricky picking and fingering methods involved leaves many guitarists in the dust! Well what makes an arpeggio so hard? Probably the hardest part about playing an arpeggio is sweep picking. Now, not all arpeggios are sweep picked (many are alternate picked) but the most complicated of them are! Lots of arpeggios contain several methods of picking, one that I can think of off the top of my head has both sweep picking and economy picking - as you might guess this gets very challenging! Also, after every note in an arpeggio you must mute the note with your finger! Whew! What is sweep picking, you ask? Well, sweep picking is what is sounds like, playing all six strings in one big sweep! That means one big upstroak or downstroak to play all strings. We'll get into those arpeggios near the end though. I recommend learning these arpeggios in the order that I have written them out. I'll start you off with some basic three-string alternate picked arpeggios. After this it will go into four-string-ers, five-string-ers, ones that are swept, and so on. There is more help on how to play these when you go into each section (with tabulature)
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