Hey there I'm gonna show you two versions of the D major seven arpeggio
both are extremely useful. I'll explain more as we go along. Let's do this.
The reason it's so valuable to learn both of these forms of the D major 7 arpeggio is because
one starts with the root on the fifth string and the other on the sixth string.
Now they're both movable so that means between these two forms of the D major 7 arpeggio,
you can play any arpeggio up and down the guitar neck. You see when you start on D if you just
move it up it's now a D sharp arpeggio. If you move it back it's a D flat arpeggio.
Another step is a C arpeggio. You can play every major 7th arpeggio
up and down the neck by learning these two forms. How's that for hecka bang for buck?
We'll start with the first version which has the root on the fifth
string. Let me play it first and then I'll tell you the fingering.
Now I know for some people that pinky that last one can be a bit of a stretch.
You can leave that off really. I wouldn't worry about it and
of course you can add it on later as you get more facility with your pinky.
Let's do the fingering. I'll call out the frets.
Start the fifth fret. Good string. Now the fourth string that's 4 and 7
now over the third string that's 6 and 7. Now seven on the second string and 5 on the first
string. Now we've got this one. The stretch is 9 on the first string. So again a little faster
and eventually you want to practice up and then back down but start with just up
and get comfortable with that and then start going down. Let's go on to that second version
now. I actually find this one a little bit easier but everybody's a little different.
First i'll play it so
okay I'll call out the fret numbers again. We'll start with the tenth fret on the sixth string,
over to the fifth string that's the ninth fret, 12th, this is 11 on the fourth string
and back to 12 with a pinky. Now I'm going back to 11 on the third string,
second string is 10 and the first string is 9, up one half step to 10 back and so on.
Again start off practicing going upwards and then backwards.
Eventually you wanna get to where you can do an exercise something like this - - -
and so on eventually go all the way down and then back up.
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