How do you'all go about practicing arpeggios?
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The way I look at is that a melody is made up of bits of scales and arpeggios. If you master playing them you start see them in the music instead of individual notes. You can compare it to a vocabulary in language. If you’ve never seen a word before you have to look at each letter and pronounce it phonetically it takes time, but words you know you immediately understand and can speak without conscious thought. Practicing these building blocks in music builds good technique as well as your musical vocabulary.How, exactly does this practicing of scales benefit one's musicality? Isn't it the same as learning new tunes for the same amount of time? Will it help you remember your repertoire so you don't "f* up" (to use the non American vernacular ?) in an event?
I'll demo it for you this Saturday in our time together... but the simple answer is that chords, arpeggios and scales are all parts of songs. If you are all accomplished In these things, you are not taking the time to learn a part of an arpeggio or part of a scale to play a line from a song... you just play it and move on to the next phrase!
Please believe me that I am not trying to be insulting in ANY manner... but if I understand the above, you only want to learn/practice arpeggios that will appear in music you want to play and then you want to learn how to embellish them with arpeggios, and I actually chuckled when reading that.My question should have been; When playing an arpeggio, what progression of notes do you play/practice?
I think Ben-J touched on the answer, way up there. I'd like to practice arpeggios in a fashion that I'm likely to encounter in music, as well as what sounds good when doing fills and color.
Is it acceptable, regarding arpeggios, to move around thru the IV and V chord pitches as well? Or would this be outside the definition of "arpeggio"?
It's true!!!! I am the poster child of "I've played for 10 years and I still suck!" (Actually, I consider myself intermediate, and I have restored, played with friends and volunteered for years, but have been stuck here on this plateau.) Hence my newfound interest in "how to practice." Then one day Jerry said he would mentor me if I promised to work hard and do exactly as he says. Wow, do I feel privileged! So, here I am, practicing these scales and arpeggios/inversions and it's HARD!!!!!! But I will not give up, I'm getting to the next level if it kills me!"There are no rules..."
I think we are falling a bit off topic, but if you want to do anything in life... randomly, let's choose push-ups, and you want to do one single power-pushup (where the entire body is lifted off the ground by arm power alone), you don't start by struggling doing power push-ups for 2 years before you get to 1, because you won't make it past a month before you are fed up of trying and moving on... you start with standard easy to do pushups, then move to 1-hand push-ups then move to hand-stand push-ups and finally to power pushups.
Our friend Tom is a great example of this... 10 years of playing and still struggling. I am confident that Tom is going to advance more in 30 days than he has in YEARS, because of a few rules (but we can see the results in a month).
The absolute same thing can be said about anything... let's take language... we can post and type whatever we want... but if you don't know how to spell, well, you end up sounding like communicating in baby-talk... lol.
Same with music. There *are* rules, ( actually lots of them!)... but you can choose to ignore them, or not. A lot is based on needs and goals.![]()
Nah, honest, you don't need me, you needed someone to help you break your pattern, to show you another path to bust through this plateau... you got this and I am very excited to see the results of week 1 tomorrow!Then one day Jerry said he would mentor me if I promised to work hard and do exactly as he says. Wow, do I feel privileged! So, here I am, practicing these scales and arpeggios/inversions and it's HARD!!!!!! But I will not give up, I'm getting to the next level if it kills me!