Guitar Nine Focus: Arpeggios

While a chord is defined as a group of notes that are played together at the same time, an arpeggio, or a "broken chord," means a chord in which the notes are sounded individually, one after another.

Here are some great columns to help you master this essential technique.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

These ideas will really add some spice to your playing.

John Baboian
John Baboian

How to avoid "wrong notes" on your way to creating interesting, improvised lines.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Use the entire neck of your axe with these three octave ideas.

Paul Kleff
Paul Kleff

Paul Kleff shows you how to create interesting phrases using basic arpeggio shapes.

Jean-Pierre Zammit
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Very cool and unique runs that can add that missing edge in your soloing.

Jean-Pierre Zammit
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Adapting legato technique to the ubiquitous arpeggio.

Jean-Pierre Zammit
Jean-Pierre Zammit

The alternate picking of arpeggios can be a very tough technique to master - here`s a unique way to approach the problem.

Scott Allen
Scott Allen

Scott Allen begins his tour of arpeggio-land with beautiful seventh chord arpeggios.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Just when you thought all arpeggio topics had been covered, Mike`s back with triad arpeggio practice ideas.

Scott Allen
Scott Allen

Scott Allen continues his tour of arpeggio-land with beautiful ninth chord arpeggios.

Joe Pinnavaia
Joe Pinnavaia

A different perspective on the pentatonic scale using arpeggios.

Mike Campese
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike gets a little more detailed here, building on his previous sweeping columns.

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