Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video Lesson. Today I want to show you how to play a couple of extended arpeggio licks sequences.

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So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tab so let’s get close up and take a look at these arpeggio guitar licks.

Major Arpeggio Sequence

All right so both of these arpeggio guitar licks are movable shapes somewhat, we’ll explain that in a minute. But I just chose this area because it’s kind of a neutral spot for your hand. So if this is like a new thing to you it won’t be a huge deal.

So the first arpeggio guitar licks we’re look at is the major shape. So an arpeggio is basically just the notes of a chord so the major consists of the first third and fifth note of the major scale. So if you’re playing an A major scale we started here on the fifth fret of the low E string because that’s A… So there are our notes to make A major; we need the first, third and fifth notes so when we play the shape we’re just going to go right up through the notes in the scale. So we’re actually going to start this with the open low E string because this is one just to kind of make it a little bit more interesting and a little bit more like a like a lick and little less like your just playing a scale so to say or playing an arpeggio rather. The E is in there, it’s our fifth, so we’re just starting with that so this would be like an inversion. So we’re going to start off we’re going to play the open low E string and then we’re going to do a hammer-on to the fifth fret with your first finger and then a hammer-on to the ninth fret with your third finger… Then we’re going to the seventh fret of the A string and then we’re going to also use that finger and we’re going to roll up to the seventh fret of the D string. So what we’ve got happening here is five, one, three, five, one. Now we’re going to go to three again and we’re going to do now is go to the sixth fret of the G string with your first finger…  So when I’m doing this I’m doing it all as a down strokes; so down, Hammer, Hammer, down, down, down… All right, so what we’re going to do now is we’re actually going to shift up and we’re still going to be doing an A major, but we’re going to shift up into another position. So if we play this note here we want to slide to the ninth fret of on the G string… Now we’re going to be looking at our shape here and it looks like a D major chord, it’s your second inversion Triad for those of you who know that. So after we slide up to nine then we’re going to take our second finger and go to the tenth fret of the B string, first finger to the ninth fret of the high E string and then hammer-on to the 12th fret with your pinky. Now we’re going to take our picking hand and we’re going to tap the 17th fret… Now we also want to descend the whole descend thing as well. So with this first, especially if this is like completely new to you, you’re probably going to want to break this into sections. So maybe you could just go… Try to get that down and then you could… until you could… Tight now when we descend it we’re just gonna pull-off to here. So as we climb up we want to leave our trailing fingers on so that way we can just pull, pull and now it’s an upstroke starting on the B string, up, up, slide, up… and then you can pull-off to the open strings and then resolve on an A major barre chord… So that’s the major shape and now I want to show you how to play the minor shape arpeggio guitar licks as well.

Minor Arpeggio Sequence

So just like when you switch a major chord to a minor chord all you’re doing is we’re going to take the note that’s the third of this arpeggio guitar licks and we’re going to flatten it a half step. So when we did here we had a C sharp and E. So now it’s going to be A and we’re going to take the C sharp and flatten it to C. So what’s going to happen is it’s going to change which fingers we use. So now we start off open, hammer-on to five with your first finger, hammer-on to eight with your fourth finger and then we’re gonna take our third finger pick up the seventh fret of the A string and roll up to pick up the second fret of the D string. And now this note that was normally on the sixth fret will be on the fifth because it’s our third. See there? We have that minor dyad shape; minor third dyad shape. Now we’re going to slide up to the ninth fret again to the 10th fret on the B string, but now instead of being the ninth fret of the high E string it’s the eighth fret. So hammer-on to the 12^th fret and 17^th fret again… And then this one resolved to an A minor chord… All right, so it is a movable shape and depending upon what key you do it in is whether or not you could start with that open string, but if you didn’t start with the open string and you just went… I mean just do it like that, we don’t have the open string, so then you can move this around anywhere you want it. So this is an A, so it’s A major; so if we did it here since it’s a C it’d be a C major. So it’s just still the same shape all the way through. So one of the things you want to pay attention to is how far away the tapped note is. So it is one, two, three, four, five Frets away or two and a half steps, however you want to look at it… So you could in the keys where you can use the open string, you could still do that in there. So like if we were doing it in G; G, D. So E isn’t even part of the major Triad, but it still sounds good because it’s in that key. If we were doing the minor one though… see it still sounds good. It isn’t a clashing note, but I personally probably wouldn’t do it you know if I was playing it down there, but in here in A it sounds really good…

Conclusion

So there you have it. Two extended arpeggio licks with the major and the minor that are movable shapes that you can move to different keys. So if you like this arpeggio guitar licks lesson and you found this helpful and stuff be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification Bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching this arpeggio guitar licks lesson and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I want to show you two different riffs from the intro from the song Aces High by Iron Maiden. So these are pretty easy to play, they really good and they’re in a harmony. This is just to show you how you can have just a repeating sequence of notes that are just played over and over and over again, but when you hear it in context of the song it sounds like there’s more going on because of what’s happening behind the little melody line when they change chords and stuff. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.

Aces High Riff – Part 1

All right so for this first part here we’re going to start off on the sixth fret of the D string and I’m using my third finger and we’re gonna go six to seven and then we’re gonna go to the G string to the fourth fret; so this is why you want to use your fingers here… So we go six seven and then four on the G string and then back to the sixth fret of the D string… back to the third fret of the G string; so I’m just going to roll my third finger up and then back to the fourth fret of the G string and that’s the riff right there… and then it just repeats… Okay so you have to make sure you include in here is this timing and this is all made up of eighth notes and this very first one is on starting on the and of four so it’s like and one and two and, and then on the downbeat of three we rest, on the and of three we go to the fourth fret here on the G string and then on the downbeat of four we rest and then on the and of four we’re back to the six again… and it just repeats like that so it just sounds like the same thing over and over and over again… which it is more or less, but like I said it’s because of what’s happening behind it, so that riff just keeps repeating like that, the riff itself is an odd grouping so since we’re starting on that and of four and the riff ends on the and of four of the second measure and then it just more or less just repeats a total of six times and then on the seventh time it has the change where it ends… So at the last time through, you know six to 4 on the G string, back to 4 on the D string, to 6, 4, 6, 7, 6, 6, 6, 4 and then to that six on the D string, six, seven, four, seven, six and then that just rings out… and then that’s where it goes into the next part.

Aces High Riff – Part 2

Alright, so for part two, and again this is all harmonized so we’re just looking at the parts that are the melody. So if you playing this by yourself this is the part you would want to play on this second part and on the first part you want to the part that I’m playing is the melody and then the second part is the harmony. So for the melody for this part we’re going to start off we’re going to be able to transition right from where we were at… so we ended on the sixth fret of the D string with our third finger; so now we’re going to move up here and our second finger is going to go to the fifth fret of the G string and then our first finger is going to go onto the fourth fret of the G string. So we start off on the downbeat of one and we have the fifth fret and it’s a dotted quarter note so it’s one, two and three, and four and. So when we go to four and then to the fifth fret we pick and pull back to the fourth fret twice… then we’re going to go to the fifth fret of the B string; so I’m just going to keep my first finger here where it is and I’m going to move my second finger up here to the fifth fret of the B string and pick that twice and then back to the fifth fret of the G string. So this is like one, two, three, four and then that would go on to the next part and that’s the first two measures. Okay so then starting on the third measure it’s kind of like the first measure so we start on the fifth fret of the G string and it’s a dotted quarter note; so it’s one, two, and then on the and of two go to the fourth fret and then on the downbeat of three back to the fifth fret and we pick and pull and then back to five again as a quarter note for beat four… then we go back to the fourth fret of the G string where our first finger already is… we hit that on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we go to the seventh fret of the G string and I’m gonna use my fourth finger and that’s and two and, and then on the downbeat of three we go to the fifth fret of the B string with my second finger, three, and on the and of three we go back to the seventh fret of the G string down to four, the fifth fret of the G string, and the and of four is the fourth fret of the G string and then that whole thing just repeats four times and then from that point it would go into the verse of the song.

Conclusion

Alright so there you have it. Two different riffs for the intro of Aces High by Iron Maiden and I said these aren’t very difficult to play and they’re fun to play and they sound really good, especially in context, if you’re just playing it by yourself it doesn’t really sound as cool as it does when you have it in the context of the song; so this is a good one to pull up the original song and play along with it because the tempo isn’t very fast on the intro part and when it goes to part two the tempo speeds up, but it’s still not too terribly tough. If you’re having some trouble just do it on YouTube and you can slow the speed down, you know, like three quarter or half speed or whatever you need to do to make it work. All right so if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching two easy melody line riffs from Aces High and have a great day.

Introduction – Harmonize Your Own Riffs W/ Dyads

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads video lesson. Today I’m actually going to be teaching you one of my own riffs from a song I wrote. What I want to show you with this is a way that you can harmonize your own riff. This riff originally was played on two guitars and honestly I prefer the way that sounds, but we ended up being down a guitar player and had to play live and had to play this song and without the harmony it just doesn’t quite sound right; so I figured out a way to do both parts at the same time. I thought that would be a good lesson for you guys to show you how by using dyads and double stops how you can create your own little harmony. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.

Riff Melody

All right so this riff is entirely just on the D string and it’s got this sixteenth note kind of a thing going here. So you’ve got four sixteenth notes and then we’re going to go to the 15^th fret. So in between there’s four 16^th notes of the open D string in between all of these notes except in a couple of places and I’ll explain when we get there. So we’ve got frets 15 14 17 15… so we go 15 14 17 15 and then 14 15 again, so between the 14 and 15 there’s only two in between… so that’s the first part. Now we’re going to come down to the 12th fret… 14 10 12 and then two… Then we’re going to come down to 10 to 9; so that’s like half of the riff right there. So the second time through it’s got a couple of differences so we start off again with frets; 15 and 14 17 15 19 17 20 19 17 15 14 and then 15 so it’s the same, but here we have two sixteenth notes… all right so that was guitar one of Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.

Temple Of The Sun

So the song is called Temple Of The Sun by the way, so if you want to hear the original song it’s on YouTube and Spotify, it’s called temple of the sun and the band is called Sonic Prophecy.

Riff Harmony

So anyhow the song starts out with just the one guitar and then the whole thing just starts over again, but a second guitar comes in doing a harmony… So it’s just harmonized in thirds and so one problem with that was the one of the notes is actually on the 24th fret so you don’t have 24 frets it’s hard to play and you can’t play both of those parts at the same time. So what we’re going to do is the harmony line that’s up here… we’re going to do it all on the G string. So our first one we’re gonna do the same and add that harmony. So we’ve got a major third there, so if you remember from the dyads video that I did before that you know you have all these two note chords, like power chords… but there’s a whole bunch of other ones; so if you haven’t seen that video I’ll leave a link for it here so you can check that out. So we’ve got this shape is a major third, so here’s our root and our melody line and then it’s just one fret down on the on the G string, that’s a major and then to make it minor there’s a fret in between. So we’ve got; major, minor, minor, major, minor, major, major, minor, minor, major, minor, minor, major, and minor again. So here I’m on frets; 15 and 14 and then 14 and 12 and then 17 and 15 and back to 15 and 14… then 20 and 17 and 15 and 20 and 19 and 17…
That’s it… now you know How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads.

Conclusion

All right so I hope you enjoyed Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads and you got something out of it. If you liked the video be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below and let me know if there’s something you’d like to see covered in a future lesson or if you just have a question about Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs. I try to check all that stuff out and answer as many of them as I can. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so that you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching Learn How To Harmonize Your Own Riffs with dyads and have a great day.

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Basically what we’re looking at is we’re looking at the chords A minor 7, D9 to G major 7, very common chord progression in jazz. But we’re going to start up here on an A minor 11, which is going to be 7, 9, 8, 10 and then we have this little melody. So that 10 becomes an 8 and I barre here on this. It’s like an A minor 7 shape. And then I come down to A minor 9.

And then we do what’s called a tri-tone substitute, and that’s where you play an E flat — basically the concept would be this sort of A minor 7, A flat 7, G major 7. But we’re going to do a whole 2-5 E flat minor, A flat and out just like this. B flat 13 is what I’m playing here, 4th fret, 4th fret, 5th fret, 6th fret and that resolves to the 4th fret and then finally home to this G chord, which is 3rd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 3rd fret, 2nd fret. Great chord.

Anyway, one more time from the top, slowly. And then… A real nice move you can do over a 2-5. So be sure to subscribe on our You Tube Channel and we’ll see you in our next video lessons, thanks for watching.

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