by Lucas Fagundes

Getting procedure to the subject explored on my last column, here are some other ways of playing extended arpeggios.

I've got my two personal favorite ways of playing an arpeggio with extended 9ths and 11ths. One of those will be the one shown previously, in which we would play one note on the 6th string, two notes on the 5th, one on the 4th and so on. That will end up on a 1-2-1-2-1-2 note-per-string pattern, like the following:

Another possibilty of playing those kind of arpeggios is using a 2-1-2-1-2-1 note-per-string pattern. Leaving out the 9th we've got on the high E string making it a lot easier to play. By doing so, we've got:

And, if we apply it to the whole major scale:

Grey dot indicates Root.

For better studying and assimilation of this exercise, it's a good idea to apply it to all other scales that you are used to playing. It's got a pretty unique sound and it's not as obvious sounding as triad or 7th arpeggios. You can also play these shapes starting from the 5th string, if you make the proper adaptations.

Technically, as shown on the previous column, we can play them with sweep picking when ascending and using legato only when descending. But you can also play them with sweep picking exclusively if you wish .

See you later and thanks for reading.