FIVE WAYS TO...USE MINOR 7 ARPEGGIOS

Your riffs, rhythm parts, and solos can all benefit from an arpeggio injection

- Jenna Scaramanga

An arpeggio is the notes of a chord played one at a time. On guitar, arpeggios have a reputation for being used mainly in jazz and shred solos. While they are great tools for advanced soloing, they are useful in every style of guitar. Classic riffs like The Killers' Mr Brightside, Aerosmith's Same Old Song And Dance, and REM's Everybody Hurts are built around arpeggios. In fact, there's so much you can do with them that for this lesson we're only looking at one type of arpeggio: the minor 7. You may hear about techniques like sweep picking, string skipping, economy picking, or tapping