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Technique Challenge: Day 5 - Arpeggiated Chords (Patreon)

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2025-01-06 08:34:52
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Today we're arpeggiating a simple chord sequence. This one's deceptively simple; the exercise is actually pretty challenging as the picking pattern is skipping about over all of the strings. Tab can be found below. Give it a try, and we'll speak again tomorrow!

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The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 5 - Arpeggiated Chords

Today I've got a pretty challenging exercise involving arpeggiated chord shapes. Tab and can be found on Patreon (pay what you like): https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar My in-depth soloing courses: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases Please subscribe here for many more YouTube lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/anyonecanplayguitarcouk Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk Social blah: Instagram (occasionally I post here): https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/

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Ian West

While I am good with picking, this is useful as I need to discipline myself with timing as I get messy. Good back to basics. Happy new year and thanks

Martin Westacott

Years ago I tried to learn Street Spirit by Radiohead, may try again if this exercise helps.

NB

Thanks Adrian … I find myself automatically going to hybrid picking when arpeggiating chords rather than all pick. Will have to work on keeping my fingers in check!!

Mark Kelly

Days 1 to 4 I found fairly easy. This is challenging for me. Trying 30 days of exercises will show your strengths and where you can improve.

John Moynihan

This is great content more than anything as a benchmark . Guitar players *should* be able to do these exercises

Charles Cluck

That's a challenge, alright. I can do it pretty easily with a thumb pick and 3-finger banjo style picking, but with a flat pick, not so much. I'll have to give it more than ten minutes, more like ten hours probably. Good one, sir.

hugh hales-tooke

I also slid the whole pattern up to the 7th fret (E on the 5th string). It gives it a different flavor of that suspended sound which reminds me of Robyn Hitchcock.

Birdie K

I have 4 guitars, Jazzmaster neck, SG type neck etc... Plus an acoustic one. Maybe this is a stupid question, but I wanna hear you thoughts on it anyway. Should i stick to this challenge using one guitar? Or change it up from time to time? I guess its a bit of a preference thing to, but I use them for different tones and bands. So ofcourse i would like to be able to handle them all within the same-ish proficiency. Day 5 was came out at the perfect time as we are starting up our Banshees tribute band again. Our vocalist is playing the drums like Budgie and sings like Souixie 🤯 Girl must have three brains 😅

Fin

Good one, Adrian. Thanks. Hey, you haven’t had a change of clothes in five days! Are you okay? Do we need to do an intervention?

anyonecanplayguitar

Haha maybe I just have a wardrobe full of identical shirts, Mark Zuckerberg style? Seriously though, there is a clothing (and a guitar change) coming up soon.

anyonecanplayguitar

Personally I'd change it up a bit. Each guitar is going to have a different feel and different quirks, and it's good to be familiar with them. I often practice on a different guitar each day just going with whatever I'm in the mood for.

anyonecanplayguitar

Banshees tribute band sounds great! Let me know if you're playing any shows in London!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, something like this might well be easier with fingerstlye or hybrid picking. Good to be versatile and have options though!

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks John. Yes, I think that's true, although making this series has definitely highlighted a few technique weaknesses of my own!

Steve Brodie

Really enjoying these short format lessons, much easier to make time for them. This is just the sort of skill I would like to be better at. Thanks for the content Adrian. 👍

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, I think that's a good way to approach this. It's a good way to identify weaknesses and those will be the exercises you can spend a bit more time with.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, something like this is definitely easier with hybrid picking. A good test to see if you can do it with the pick though!

anyonecanplayguitar

Cheers Steve. Yes, a lot of people seem to be enjoying these bite sized lessons. I'll should try and continue with a bit of this kind of approach once the 30 days are up.

Steve Brodie

I hope so. It would be good to have a mix of long and short.

Birdie K

II will ✌️

Alex

Great exercise. Should i aim for doing this without looking?

Nicolas Richard

yes, it says so towards the end of the video.

Peter Healy

Day 5. Adrian that's a nice workout/style technique. It's an approach that I want to incorporate into my sound. So far I've been fumbling around with this approach for awhile, this will definitely help. Cheers Pete

Hari Raghavan

I'm enjoying the daily exercises! Can anyone help me understand what's happening chord-wise when we change the root note in this exercise? I understand the C chord that we begin with; but when we change just the root note to A, E, and finally G, I'm curious what each of these chords is and why they work in the progression. It sounds nice and I'd like to understand why. Hope this makes sense and thank you!

Drew Holmes

so easy and hard at the same time!!!!!!! great challenge

KG

I was also wondering this. 🤘

Iain G

I think (!) the first chord is C5, then Am7, then C/E but I have no idea on the last one. Of course, I could be completely wrong!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, I wasn't really thinking in terms of chord names when I came up with the idea. It's really just a very common shape based thing. I think songwriters often just find a nice sounding chord then adjust some notes to find a nice sequence. But were I to analyse the chords we'd have a C major 7 (the fingers are playing a C5 but the open strings add the extra notes), an Amin9, Cmaj7/E, and er G6add4??? Multiple naming options when it comes to some of these. The last one's a bit strange, any other suggestions what this could be called?

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes I think not looking is an extra challenge - I find it really hard not to glance down at my picking hand!

Ian Edwards

Arggg! Well this has exposed a problem where the edge of my middle finger (which doesn’t change position throughout) is sometimes muting the open B string. Need to move my hand position into the neck to arch my fingers across more.

Mark

Love this sound. I play a tenor guitar tuned DGBE. Is there a way to adapt this exercise to that setup? Thanks!

Tom D

These are great exercises. I haven't looked ahead, so maybe this is done later, but you could take the day 5 pattern and instead of alternate picking, try economy picking it, and then do finger picking.