The minor 7 arpeggio contains the following:
1 – b3 – 5 – b7
It can be thought of as a minor arpeggio, with an added b7. It is a very important tool for any guitarist because it can be used very effectively with a range of minor scales, such as the dorian scale, aeolian scale and minor pentatonic scale.
As with any arpeggio or scale, we want to master 5 movable shapes. Let’s look at the 5 movable minor 7 arpeggio shapes, using Cmin7 as the example arpeggio:
The Major 7 arpeggio is an important arpeggio on the guitar. It contains the 1 – 3 – 5 – 7 of the Major scale.
It can also be thought of as the Major triad arpeggio with an added 7.
As with an arpeggio or scale, we want to master 5 movable shapes along the fretboard. Let’s look at the 5 movable shapes of the Major 7 arpeggio, using Cmaj7 as the example key:
The diminished arpeggio contains the following:
1 – b3 – b5
There is a minor 3rd interval between the 1 and b3. There is also a minor 3rd interval between the b3 and b5.
Let’s look at the five movable shapes for the diminished arpeggio.
Minor arpeggios are an important part of every guitarists arsenal. If you could only ever master two arpeggios, you would most likely master major arpeggios and minor arpeggios.
If you’re not sure what arpeggios are and why they are important, read the following post, why are arpeggios important?
In this post, we are going to look at major arpeggios and the different movable positions for major arpeggios on the guitar.
Many guitarists spend a large amount of time mastering scales and often place less importance on arpeggios. This is a mistake. Arpeggios are a very important part of guitar mastery. There is no better way to ‘get inside’ the sound of a chord than by using arpeggios. Just like anything on the guitar, there is an art to using arpeggios in a musical way, but a large part of the challenge is to simply learn the shapes and be able to play them fluently.
Major arpeggios are particularly important because the major triad is arguably the ‘master chord’ in all of western music. The purpose of this post is not to delve to deeply into chord theory, but a major triad contains the 1, 3 and 5 of a major scale and all other chords can be related in someway back to a major triad.
