A7 Arpeggio
Learn How to Solo Over the Blues using Arpeggios
Training Information
Difficulty: Beginner to Advanced
Video Time: 7:29
In this video you will learn how to use arpeggios when soloing!So this is the final lesson in this series. The series does continue, however you will need to become a paying member. I will set up a new page for that with a special offer to thank you for making it this far with the limited access membership 🙂
Below and to the right is a fretboard showing an A7 arpeggio in 9th position!
- index finger looks after notes on the 9th fret
- middle finger looks after notes on the 10th fret
- ring finger looks after notes on the 11th fret
- little finger looks after notes on the 12th fret
The notes on the staff below are all the notes from the arpeggio above starting on the C# on the 9th fret of your low E string and going up to the E on the 12th fret of your high E string and back down. Notice the time signature is in 3/4 and we will only count to 3 in each measure.
Note the picking is indicating natural (also known as economy) picking where the pick continues in the same direction is changing strings. You should also practice alternate picking.
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To the right are the D7 and E7 arpeggios you will want to solo over the 12 bar blues in A. Notice they are the same form as our A7 we learned above. Just moved to 2nd position for D and 4th position for E.
Moving the same shape/form around the fretboard isn't necessarily the easiest way to moved from one arpeggio to the other but for now it will reinforce the shape and really get it under your fingers.
Eventually we will learn more forms that will make it so we can switch staying in the same position!
D7
E7
