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Augmented triad arpeggios are the opposite of diminished triad arpeggios.
Instead of having all minor thirds, they have all major thirds.
And it's a really common arpeggio in television,
especially in sitcoms when somebody is having some sort of dream
and they're off in a far-away land, and you hear them go--
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You've probably heard that before.
You've probably also heard them when you've been listening to songs.
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So it'll be that little glue that connects the minor chord--
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--to the major chord.
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So let's learn how to play them.
Let's start with the bottom three strings.
We're going to play C augmented.
Third finger, eighth fret, low E string.
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Second finger, seventh fret, A string.
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First finger, sixth fret, D string.
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C E, G sharp, E, C.
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Neck strings, that looks exactly the same for F augmented.
We have F on the eighth fret, the A string.
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A on the seventh fret of the D string.
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And C sharp on the sixth fret of the G string.
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When we move to the D, G, and B strings, the shape
changes, because of the B string.
So we're going to play A, C sharp, and E sharp with the second finger,
and the first finger, again, is barring two strings.
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You always want to make sure that these fingers can
grab more than one string at a time.
And they will bend like this eventually.
So your first finger's going to be on the sixth fret
playing C sharp and E sharp.
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And your second finger will be on the D string on the seventh fret.
So you have A--
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C sharp--
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E sharp.
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All right?
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For D, augmented.
You have your second finger on the seventh fret of the G string on D.
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And you have your third finger on the seventh fret
of the B string on F sharp.
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And your first finger is on the sixth fret of the E string, playing A sharp.
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So to review, C augmented.
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F augmented.
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A augmented.
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And D augmented.
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When you move this augmented triad up and down in whole steps, or two
frets at a time--
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--sometimes people use that in the blues when they're soloing.
They'll do some sort of fast run over the chords, where they'll go--
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Or even much faster than that.
And it gives it a different kind of sound.
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They sound very dreamy.
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So work on those on all the string sets.