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We discussed in the previous segment the arpeggio, in this particular case the major arpeggio,
E major arpeggio. And what I would like to share on this particular clip is to show you
how to break down arpeggios rather than simply playing about five or six note arpeggio all
the time. You can break them down as well and use them tastefully in solos and so forth
and so on. So you when you are talking about the A, D, G string aspect of it, that is your
major shade all the way up. If you go, feel like this, that's F, F Sharp, G, and so forth
and so on as you move up the scale. So you could do this here. Almost play like a cord.
And then down here, you have this shade. Its fourth fret, fifth fret, and fourth fret,
and basically what you are doing probably sounds familiar if you listened to old nursery
rhymes or something. Anyway, so you go four, five, four, seven, four, five, four. That's
the other half of the arpeggio that you could break down rather than playing the whole thing;
you could go and break it down there and simply it a bit.