Creating Killer Riffs w/ Arpeggios - Riff Of The Week:S4,e35

[punkiassjunki]

whats the difference between a A7 and an Amaj7? is an A7 a flat seventh?

[berherbi]

dave

your tutorials are amazing!!!!!!!!!!

berherbi

[GuitarCrazyManiac]

So Dave, an arpeggio is just the 1, 3, 5, and 7 of the scale you're using? So if I wanted to do an E major arpeggio, I'd just play and E, G#, B, and a D# (and then repeat if I wanted to do what you did here)? Also, what about Paul Gilbert's arpeggios. He seems to do it a bit different. I'm a little confused. :-)

[Sperzel]

An arpeggio is defined simply as the notes of a chord played separately, so the term actually doesn't say anything about the choice of notes.

Having cleared that up. Chords, or arpeggios, can be constructed using any formula you want. Say you wanted an Esus4-arpeggio. You take the 1, 4 and 5 notes out of an E-major scale. E A and B respectively. If you wanted a Gmin7b5 chord, you would need 1, 3, b5 and 7 out of G-minor.

[Sperzel]

Regarding Paul Gilbert's arpeggios. It is more in the way he plays them, the techniques he uses to play them that gives them that Gilbert touch. His choice of notes is not very different.

Gilbert favors string-skipping when playing arpeggios, as opposed to sweep-picking them. He has a couple of lessons on arpeggios in his instuctional vids, and many clips can be found here on youtube.

[damuddykip]

Actually an arpeggio is any notes of a scale played note by note. For example it could be the 1, 3, 5 and 7 of a scale or it could be a 1, b3, 5, 6 to get a minor 6th arpeggio or possibly 1, 3, 5 b7, 9 to get a dominant 9th arpeggio. Also Paul Guilberts arpeggios sound different because tends to do some string skipping so his arpeggios get more of the low to high range. Hope this helped out. If not...oops.

[B7aug5]

Fawking AWESOME. I love the pulling technique in G. Works in any key, really, but any of the strings that are part of open chords does the trick. G is the natural one. E for the exact reason Dave explains in the beginning of the vid.

Best instructional vids I have ever seen.

[Fluffie14]

i like that you do this even though you dont get many views keep it up and someday it will be huge

[IgneousWarrior]

I kind of curious about your sweeping idea. I saw you changed strokes at some points, but I think it might sound smoother and more organic if you simply used a hammer-on so you could continue using a single down stroke.

[viniguitarjazz]

YOU IS VERY  GOOD TEACHER

[billmeedog]

Hi Dave, excellent lesson bro!

I'm curious why you chose to standard-notate (in the staff - NOT TAB!) this new riff using "flats" (like "Db" and "Ab" instead of the more key-sig-appropriate "C#" and"G#" respectively? For one thing, the two possible keys ("A-Major/A-Ionian" or "E-Major/A-Lydian") are both sharp keys?...Also, you wouldn't have needed to use a natural-sign on the "Ab's" if they were just "G#'s"?...I guess brass-players would dig the flats! (LOL!)

No big deal - AWESOME RIFF!

[riffoftheweek]

thx for pointing that out. new tab program. i didn't notice it was labeling as flats and not sharps. It should def be in A maj which has 3 sharps.

[m4rtin77]

I must say one thing. Yours channel is fucking cool !!!

[brucekirk89]

and he is playing a 7 string so it will sound diffrant

[oldhairyone]

No it won't. He isn't using the low B.

[tweekskratch]

for some reason I can't download your podcasts? keep it comin man, I love it!

[riffoftheweek]

itunes feed returning shortly

[hood3dgeetr]

Damn, once I read arpeggios I was excited. I'm starting to learn sweep picking now and I can do 3 strings w/ slides now (I practice w/ Am sliding up). And I'm more of an alternate pick type player to, it gives more control over the musical content.

Thank you for the lesson

[diwash9612425]

damn man it is so complicated !! its easy to listen hard to play !!!

[riffoftheweek]

This is actually on the easy side of things. But it just takes time. Hit me up for a lesson and you'll get it.

[mmaier2112]

Which guitar is that? It looks orange.

[riffoftheweek]

time to adjust your monitor. lol. It's a black and red LACS

[SIXSTRING63]

Very cool Dave. The sweep style reminds me of the way Frank Gambale approaches that kind of lick . I learned some of that from his video a long time ago and it is a very useful technique that I use a lot. Love the vids Brother !

[Jinskee]

sounds great, thanks dave!

[Buddyisabutt]

love ya dave( in a very homosapien kinda way. Im a man i love muscle cars and poker and cigars! lol) anyway thanks for the A io apreggs is what i meant to say but im too far into this message and i dnt feel like deleting stuff. thanks again.

[MassimoPetrucci]

hey dave what type of progression could you use this on..??

[riffoftheweek]

It's just Amaj.. so anything that could use an Amaj sound.

[13thorderbass]

That sounds awesome dave, good video.

[delordeyan]

why the /rotw page doesn't work? there is 4 04 error

[riffoftheweek]

riffoftheweek . com

[miniman06070]

yes! arpeggios!

[GuitarGuruLessons]

first comment and great vid

[highrollerzzz]

Hmpf, It just never feels comfortable for me to use hybrid picking in any situation other then some bluesy/country licks I play.

Nice lesson anyway, and your twelfth fret marker reminds me of one company's logo here where I live, NIS Petrol-Jugopetrol

[blacksheepofnoherd]

cool....3 ways of picking the same riff!! this'll be very useful.

[Rg1527]

Sweet Stuff Dave =D

[mofokitten]

are you ever going to "discontinue" your DAVEWEINER account? right now it's just redundant, seeing as the accounts both get the same content every wednesday :P

[riffoftheweek]

nope. the DW one will be for personal vids as well. If it's redundant to you, guess what.. don't watch both channels. lol

[mofokitten]

ah, well if you're keeping it for other stuff, then it's far from redundant! :)

i'm just seeing the same ROTW vids being released on both, and i'm thinking about the little extra time that goes into uploading the same video for both accounts.

[deeaxident]

love arpeggios, another great vid, thanks dave!

ps. im addicted to shove the sun aside

[MikaelLilienthal]

Awesome

[LaCooper]

solid Dave. this is a question i've asked time and time again. very helpful. thanks