These arpeggio workouts focus on triads only, helping you internalise this essential tool for both playing and composing—if you’re willing to put in the work.
In this 1st of the series, you’ll start with top 3-string shapes, preparing you to move to full 6-string forms in the 2nd, then return to 2-string shapes in the 3rd, to challenge both your technique and fretboard vision.
Arpeggios are chords played note-by-note, like scales but with wider intervals. In this course, you’ll work with 4 Triad Types:
- Major (1-3-5)
- Minor (1-b3-5)
- Diminished (1-b3-b5)
- Augmented (1-3-#5)
We’ll be starting top 3 strings because this is where you’re most likely to use arpeggios for soloing. We’ll begin high on the neck and descend, making the stretches easier and aligning better with how you’ll actually use them.
Each workout emphasizes the root note, beginning and ending on it to build your fretboard awareness—something many players miss. You’ll cycle through 4 arpeggios of the same type before changing qualities: Major, Augmented, Minor, then Diminished. This is not the standard order in order to add a variation which will keep practice fresh and more musically useful.
Major and Augmented arpeggios will descend in major 3rds, while Minor and Diminished will descend in minor 3rds—movements that reflect their harmonic nature and help you connect with their sound quickly.
Let’s do it to it…
Course Includes
- 3 Lessons
