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This lesson is about sweep picking arpeggios. I felt that quite a few people could benefit from this and so I took it upon myself to make this lesson, thus there is no original e-mail for this one.

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Below is the tablature to this particular sweep arpeggio:

'E - Hybrid' arpeggio - This arpeggio would mostly be played over power chords and most notably over an ambient backing track such as synthesized strings playing just the root note (the root note in the example below would be A7) and any occasion where your chord changes from major to minor. It has both the 3rd and the flat 3rd and can be called a hybrid because it is the notes from both a major chord (3rd) and a minor chord (b3rd) and is not a traditional pattern because of this.  In the below example the major is the E4 note (Ab) and the minor is D5 (G). So for a major arpeggio change the D5 to a D6. For a minor arpeggio change the E4 on the high e string to an E3. Pretty simple eh?

|-7-4------------|
|-----5----------|
|-------4--------|
|---------5------|
|-----------7----|
|----------------|
 

Above are the tabs to an E maj/min arpeggio starting from the High E string, 7th fret. This particular pattern would be a sweep arpeggio because of the way it is laid out, making it easier to be sweep-picked.

Here it is again with the full up-stroke and down-stroke tabbed out:

|-7-4---------------4-7---|
|-----5-----------5-------|
|-------4-------4---------|
|---------5---5-----------|
|-----------7-------------|
|-------------------------|
 

This same pattern can be applied anywhere along the fret-board provided that the root note (The note the arpeggio is named after) is on the A string (2nd fattest string). In this case the root note is A7, which is an E...ultimately making it an E arpeggio (with of course the 3rd/b3rd).

Here is the fingering for this arpeggio pattern:

[Above] The vertical lines are the strings (labeled above them) and the horizontal lines represent the frets. The orange boxes represent where your fingers go (fingering). Remember, if you keep the same pattern you can move this around the fret board! sweet huh?

* Note- An Arpeggio is nothing more than the notes of any given chord played one at a time rather than strummed. Technically you can play the notes of any chord you already know one at a time and it would be an arpeggio but there are many different patterns than just the lay out for the basic chords you may already know. Make Sense?

Hope you get some use out of this and don't forget to view the videos HERE as they will help more than this page alone.

-Until Next Lesson I wish you happy playing and much Joy, ya bastards.

JM Brown - Instructor/Admin

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