Guitar Nine Columns: Arpeggios

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Enjoy over 25 years of staff columns, guest columns, interviews and more!

June-July 2020
Guitar Nine

The term arpeggios on guitar means to play chord tones (the notes of a chord) one note at a time.

June-July 2020
Tommaso Zillio

Create some threatening sounds with your guitar.

April-May 2020
Tommaso Zillio

A basic skill you need to have - here's how to get it.

October-November 2019
Tommaso Zillio

Let's get those creative wheels turning, shall we?

August-September 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Even more ideas to spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.

June-July 2019
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Time to build technique and spice up your arpeggio sequences by altering the order of the notes.

April-May 2018
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Gaining fluency with triad arpeggios will help your soloing and rhythm playing.

October-November 2000
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

The official arpeggios of Guitar Nine Records - always play the 9th. Take it away Mike.

December-January 2000
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with a follow up article with even more 9ths for your entertainment.

February-March 2001
Francesco Fareri

Italian guitar player Francesco Fareri suggests several different ways to link arpeggiated lines.

April-May 2001
Francesco Fareri

Italian guitar player Francesco Fareri adds more embellishments to his arpeggiated lines.

June-July 2001
Gianluca Piersanti

Guitarist Gianluca Piersanti returns with an arpeggiated inspiration from Beethoven.

December-January 2001
Francesco Fareri

Want to double your fun? Double tracking your arpeggios may be the way to do it.

February-March 2002
Francesco Fareri

Another fistful of double arpeggio ideas.

June-July 2002
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike returns with some fun arpeggio licks he uses in his own playing.

February-March 2003
Martin Behr

Applying time-shifting to enhance tapped arpeggios.

August-September 2003
Tom Yoder

The amazing Tom Yoder and his equally amazing arpeggios.

October-November 2003
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese is back with more modal mayhem.

October-November 2004
Dan Keller

Do you want to play arpeggio-like melodies with "ear-caching" tensions? Let the Sultan of String show you how.

October-November 2006
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

These ideas will really add some spice to your playing.

December-January 2006
John Baboian

How to avoid "wrong notes" on your way to creating interesting, improvised lines.

February-March 2008
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Use the entire neck of your axe with these three octave ideas.

October-November 2008
Paul Kleff

Paul Kleff shows you how to create interesting phrases using basic arpeggio shapes.

June-July 2009
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Very cool and unique runs that can add that missing edge in your soloing.

August-September 2009
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Adapting legato technique to the ubiquitous arpeggio.

October-November 2009
Jean-Pierre Zammit

The alternate picking of arpeggios can be a very tough technique to master - here`s a unique way to approach the problem.

December-January 2010
Scott Allen

Scott Allen begins his tour of arpeggio-land with beautiful seventh chord arpeggios.

February-March 2011
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Just when you thought all arpeggio topics had been covered, Mike`s back with triad arpeggio practice ideas.

February-March 2011
Scott Allen

Scott Allen continues his tour of arpeggio-land with beautiful ninth chord arpeggios.

April-May 2011
Joe Pinnavaia

A different perspective on the pentatonic scale using arpeggios.

February-March 2012
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike gets a little more detailed here, building on his previous sweeping columns.

April-May 2012
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Building on the last column, Mike adds more examples here, building on his previous sweeping columns.

June-July 2012
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Building on the last two columns, Mike wraps up the series with a G minor arpeggio progression.

April-May 2014
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Dominants should be the arpeggios you study first since they are used regularly in Blues/Rock progressions and songs.

June-July 2014
Jean-Pierre Zammit

Go ahead and `burn` your fretboard with these Major 7th arpeggios.

December-January 2014
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese gives you a nice sweep picking arpeggio workout using the chord progression from Pachelbel`s Canon in D.

February-March 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese delivers a fistful of single string triad arpeggios - major, minor and diminished.

April-May 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese puts both hands on the fretboard to deliver more triad arpeggios.

April-May 2015
Tom Hess Opus 2

Build incredible amounts of musical tension by combining sweep picking technique with creative guitar phrasing ideas.

August-September 2015
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Mike Campese will help master your triads in all 12 keys, focusing on the sharp keys for the major triads.

October-November 2016
Mike Campese: The Fire Within

Here are Mike`s technique to help spice up your solos, instead of just running up and down arpeggios.

April-May 2017
Chris Schreiner

Chris takes you through every inversion on string-set G-B-E, allowing you to bust one out when called upon to do so.