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An arpeggio is a broken chord.  In other words, the notes of a chord played one at a time instead of all at the same time.

4 Important Reasons Arpeggios should be a part of your daily practice routine:

This example has us playing eighths notes.  Use the same pick pattern from above if you want to sweep pick it.  It will get much harder to play this alternate picking as it gets faster.  Sweep picking will allow us to play it much faster.  Also note that this example is in 6/4

Eighth note triplets have us playing 3 notes evenly spaced in the beat.

Sixteenth notes have us put 4 notes in each beat.  So pay attention to that F# on your high E string.  That will be the note hit on beat 2 with the metronome.

Do you want to improve your technique, learn the fretboard, know what notes are in what chords and connect your scale forms?

Arpeggios are the answers to all of those!  Plus they are fun to play and sound cool 🙂

Join me for this free 3 part series on arpeggios and their importance to improving your guitar playing!

My name is Teague Purtell and I am a professional musician.  I love music and I love sharing my knowledge so others can experience the joy that playing guitar can offer.  I started Musiclearning.Com in 1999 with the goal to create fun online guitar lessons that provided direction and would help with focus and consistency.  Over time it became a complete guitar method designed to help everyone from beginner to seasoned players.  In 2007 I started a youtube channel and began adding videos to the lessons.  Little did I know that my lesson videos would get to 26 million views and counting.  All this to say I have figured out how to teach guitar online and what works for people so they feel they make the progress needed to want to keep playing and growing on the instrument.