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Help needed correcting arpeggio technique


Rocinante

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I've started trying to learn my arpeggios again. It's an area I've avoided paying attention to for years, because I've never been able to find a comfortable approach to it. Already I am having problems.

 

Could someone please tell me which left hand fingers I should be using for which notes in standard 2-octave major and minor arpeggios beginning on the E and A-strings?

 

Secondly, should I use strict alternate picking or economy picking?

 

Thanks in advance. :cool:

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What have you attempted so far, and more specific, what makes you uncomfortable?

My angle when executing arpeggios/scales is the ole' one-fret-per -finger "rule". I use this as a basis and from that vary if I have several at the same fret but different string, because I haven't been able to/haven't practiced enough on the "rolling of the finger" bit.

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Originally posted by Rocinante

Secondly, should I use strict alternate picking or economy picking?


Thanks in advance.
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Now that depends entirely on how fast you want to go. At high speeds I think you should sweep through (though you don't have to - Steve Morse alternate picks everything), but at lower speeds alternate picking is perfectly viable, and adds a whole lot of sparkle to your chords.

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I used to find finger-rolling impossible. How I got over it was to do it REALLY slowly until I got the hang of it. Took me about a month of half hour to an hour a day just doing them til I got bored, or had to learn summat else for a pupil, or a new song for the band I was in. Point is it doesn't come quickly, it does feel awkward at first but IMO it's the only logical way of doing them. A friend of mine was quite good at doing em without finger rolling; he's just got into rolling at last and sounds much more musical cos he's got less finger movement to do and can thus worry about what it SOUNDS like instead of how to do it. Just my tuppence worth. hope it helps.
Bob :cool:

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