How exactly do you practice the Arpeggio's ??

[magnusdeus123]

I currently follow the pacman route of doing every scale/modes throughout the fretboard , up and down and back and forth to get the note placements and shapes in my head . Actually I've been doing that for months now , and it's quite set in .

What I am wondering now though is that I was to include arppegio practice in my head , to further improve my knowledge of intervals related to chords in particular . so how exactly do i go about practicing it . For a while I kept doing the major chord + 7 of the key I was in different inversions throughout the fretboard . But I realize that , thats pretty limiting .

So what do you guys suggest to practice chords/arpeggio's in a way similar to pacmans strategy of learning scales and modes ??

[MarkTAW]

keys in a song.

[DocBop]

I work on arpeggio in two way. First is playing them up and down the neck in two+ octaves. Also I play fully extended arp's 1,3,5,7,9, (appropriate 11) and 13. Then for work on improv I will play tunes I'm working on in the arpeggios and when chord change grad the nearest chord tone in relation to where I am. Other times instead of a tune I will do II-V-I in some sort of cycle like CoFs.

Doing arp's this way is get fretboard training, but also you really need to know how chords are spelled for doing the fully extended arps. Then this is great ET hearing the basic chord and its extensions. Playing arps to tunes like Standards with closest connecting tone is a great mental exercise on knowing your chords and you hear good lines thru songs and how a solo line can bring out the changes. Doing this type of exercise with scales is great too.

[onlyclave]

If you really want to learn arpeggios (and scales for that matter) play them from the top down and then back up: Bb G E C E G Bb, Eb C A F A C Eb, Ab F D Bb D F Ab, etc. That way you really have to think about what the notes are because you aren't stating on the root of the chord. It helps with breaking up playing patterns all over the neck.

Of course you're playing these over 2 octaves in all 12 keys, right?

[needmoney]

You say you're doing the Pacman method for scales, why not try it for arpeggios? It works a little different but it is possible. I do it myself with 7th chords and it opens up a whole lot of different options.