Playing Beyond the Arpeggio | Adding the Octave and the Inverted 5th to Major and Minor Chords

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If you have learned your major and minor arpeggios but still find them strangely limiting, then this lesson is for you. I am going to take you beyond the basic arpeggio pattern to give you more options to play while still sticking to your chord tones by adding both the octave and the inverted 5th to your arsenal.

This lesson applies to all pitched instruments, but I’ll be showing you the patterns as they apply to bass and guitar.

🎧LESSON INDEX

0:00 Lesson Intro
0:48 Chord Tones
2:05 The Octave
4:51 The Inverted 5th
6:53 Shapes on Minor Chords
8:50 Inversions! It’s the Math Class You Never Had
11:37 Playalong
14:00 Your Homework

💡 LESSON TOPICS
♪ Chord tones are the notes in a chord and are the main ingredients to any melody or bass line
♪ “Chord tones” are just the notes in the chord being played
♪ Basically, playing chord tones makes you sound good!
♪ The concept of the octave
♪ The octave “shape”
♪ The octave is also the root of the chord
♪ Using octaves as chord tones
♪ These shapes work on any instrument tuned in 4ths
♪ The 5th is a VERY common chord tone; It’s in almost every chord!
♪ The 5th below “shape”
♪ Octaves in minor and other chords
♪ The octave shape works the same on any chord!
♪ 5th below in minor and other chords
♪ The concept of the inverted 5th
♪ We “measure” intervals (like the 5th) by counting up from 1; If we try counting back from 1, it’s a different distance
♪ Inverted intervals - the 5th below is the distance of a 4th from the root
♪ The distance from 1 UP to 5 is a 5th, but the distance from 5 UP to 1 is a 4th
♪ An inverted interval is where the “1” of the chord is now the upper note rather that the lower note; this changes the distance between the notes, but the “numbers” stay the same: 5 and 1, vs. 1 and 5
♪ Practicing what you’ve learned

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🔴 Minor Arpeggio Shape for Bass and Guitar | How to Build and Play Minor Chords One Note at a Time (6:51)


➡️ DIAGRAMS
→ Octave shape
→ Inverted 5th shape
→ Major scale - scale line

🧑 ABOUT ME
My name is Alex, and my passion is teaching music online. I’m a bass player and composer by training and trade, but what I really love to do is teach. I make my living teaching private lessons on Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Ukulele. My favorite thing to teach is theory - helping the students understand the “why” behind the music and empowering them to make better and more informed musical choices. I’m very adamant about teaching technique. This is how you gain power and control over your instrument and ultimately raise the ceiling on where your limits are and where they will be in the future.

I appreciate you participating in learning music with me, either for free through my videos or in private lessons in my virtual studio. Players of all abilities and backgrounds are welcome! There’s no music lesson I don’t love.

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