Well drumline season is starting up at my high school and auditions are coming up. The material requires some two octave scales and arpeggios to be played, while I figured out the scales I wouldn't know where to start with a two octave arpeggios.:help: So if anyone could fill me in (with either notes or tabs) on how to do it, it would be greatly appreciated.

Triad or Four Note Cord?

Aj

Uh I'm fairly sure triad at least that's how it starts. So an arpeggio in G I would play like this for one octave.
G-------------
D------5-4----
A --2-5---5-3-
E-3----------5 or G, B, D, G (octave up), Gb, D, C.

Sorry I have no idea about tab stuff.....

Fast and simple ones take a little stretch.

Play the G,B on your E string First and forth finger

Play the D on you A string with your first finger

Now Bar that first finger over to the G on the D string and then grab the B with your pinky

D on the G and jump to the octave G.




Aj

Check this video at 7:00 minute mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMHq_yZ7Hs&feature=related

Alright thanks man I'm fairly sure this is what I need to know much appreciated.

It is very likely they will want plain triads. Prepare to play both major and minor. Adding 7ths is not that hard, but get plain 3 note triads down first. While you are at it you might also check out diminished and augmented triads. Don't forget to learn them going up and then back down. Play at a slow, steady tempo, and keep the dynamic level even the whole way. All IMHO.

Let us know how it goes and what they ask you to do!

Um, if you REALLY know scales, then arpeggios are right there in them. If all you know are fingering patterns, that means you don't know scales, you just know where to put your fingers.

Arpeggios are the notes of a chord played one-at-a-time. For a C chord, you play C E G. For a Cmaj7 you play C E G B, etc. Learn the chords (how to spell them and "learn" does NOT mean "memorize notes"- it means LEARN what chords are and how to build them), and then you'll find the notes for the arpeggios.

jte