Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know what the hell the difference is between a chord and an arpeggio?

Any clarification would be appreciated.

chord=several notes sounding together
arpeggio=several notes played in succession (basically, very easy explanation here lol)

chord=several notes sounding together
arpeggio=several notes played in succession (basically, very easy explanation here lol)

makes sense, but the "chords" i've been learning were all in succession so they were both chords and arpeggios, correct?

an arpeggio is a type of chord but a chord may or may not be an arpeggio, right?

A chord is a theoretical construct with a name (C minor seventh, etc.), that specifies which notes are in it.

An arpeggio is one way of playing the notes in a chord, by playing them one at a time.

an arpeggio is a deconstructed cord

A chord is a theoretical construct with a name (C minor seventh, etc.), that specifies which notes are in it.

An arpeggio is one way of playing the notes in a chord, by playing them one at a time.

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Yep, for bass most of the time the chord is the theoretical construct. We don't strum chords on bass. I think too many times guitarist think the chord is the combination of notes they're playing. But the chord is what what ALL the notes the group is playing at one time. So, if the bass is playing an A on the bottom, the guitard is piling up C and G, the singer's singing an A on top, and the horns are playing E and G, then it's safe to say the chord is an Amin7.

For PLAYING bass, you gotta know the notes in the chords, so you study arpeggios. That also helps you to SEE that the Amin7 has the C major hiding in it.

jte

It's also important to know the I-VII chords within a key. Then you understand why the C is hiding in the Am7. Am7 is the VI chord of C and is built using the notes of the C major scale only the root is the sixth step of the C scale: A. The flat third and flat seventh give the chord its character. The arpeggios for all the chords within a key can be played from a single position, if desired, by skipping notes within a major scale: I 1-3-5-7, II 2-4-6-8(octave), III 3-5-7-9, IV 4-6-8-10 and so on.

It's an arpeggiated chord:D