Practicing Arpeggios Series Up! (1 hour 15 minutes of material)

HaVIC5 · #1 05-27-2011, 01:19 PM

Hey all, I finished uploading all the videos for my long running "Practicing Bass Arpeggios" series on youtube. Check it out on my website below.

Practicing Arpeggios

I created this series (clocking in at about 75 minutes, by the way, free! Hooray!) to approach fingering and shifting in a much more direct and methodical way that I've ever seen in any literature or other youtube videos. Fingering is something that is often left up to the student, and I feel that there are a lot of idiomatic ways of fingering passages and arpeggios that can be taught and explained rather than painstakingly attained through trial and error. I had the very good fortune of having bass teachers that went through this stuff with me, and I've since refined it a little bit so that others could work on the material.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy it!

-Adam

mambo4 · #2 05-27-2011, 01:35 PM

Nice work!
I think you and Scott Devine should have your own sticky in this forum.

Both of you have solid, accurate and useful information that puts theory discussed here into desperately needed practical examples.

I may start spending time with these just to bone up...

**crustychef** · #3 05-27-2011, 01:41 PM

Very nice work! I'm going to play around with this for a while.

Fergie Fulton · #4 05-27-2011, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mambo4

Nice work!
I think you and Scott Devine should have your own sticky in this forum.

Both of you have solid, accurate and useful information that puts theory discussed here into desperately needed practical examples.

I may start spending time with these just to bone up...

Hey Adam, great stuff and i have to agree, great piece of instruction that will fill in many "blanks" about fingerings. You and Scott have a great flair for putting ideas across...like Mambo i also will be studing in more detail, with the object to practice more of what you have done.

rydin4lifebass · #5 05-27-2011, 07:50 PM

I'm checking out now...actually working on the 7 patterns from the bass grimoire..and the arpegios there in for each of the 12 keys...nice to add some more arpeggio knowledge to it!!

**Old Joe** · #6 05-27-2011, 07:56 PM

Excellent! Thank you sir.

**f64** · #7 05-27-2011, 08:02 PM

Adam,
Thank you for the refresher - Job well done.
Tom

lenosgood · #8 05-28-2011, 04:32 AM

Thanks for giving me too much stuff to think about...

HaVIC5 · #9 06-01-2011, 11:05 PM

Thanks for the kind words, everybody!

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I'm checking out now...actually working on the 7 patterns from the bass grimoire..and the arpegios there in for each of the 12 keys...nice to add some more arpeggio knowledge to it!!

Good to know I've given you more practice material. I think the main utility in this series is not necessarily giving you the patterns and the specific places of where the notes on the neck, but rather how the specific fingerings I give can help aid you in understanding the geometry of the fingerboard and getting muscle memory to work for you instead of fumbling around up and down the neck, even if you might already know where each note is.

Chapuline · #10 06-02-2011, 08:30 AM

Thank you. It's the fingerings that I've really needed. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Art Araya · #11 06-02-2011, 08:50 AM

Good job bro. Very useful and very well done. You're a good teacher.

Watched only the major arpeggio video. It seemed that all of your suggested arpeggios begin with the first or second finger.

Did you cover starting the major triad arpeggio using the pinky? (C on the 8th fret of E string with pinky, E on the 7th fret of A string with 3rd finger, G on the 5th fret of the D string with first finger)...

This is also a very common way to finger a major triad.

I like to work on being able to play each arpeggio starting with any finger. This way, wherever you find yourself on the fretboard you can play the chord you want without excessive position shifting.

HaVIC5 · #12 06-03-2011, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Art Araya

Good job bro. Very useful and very well done. You're a good teacher.

Watched only the major arpeggio video. It seemed that all of your suggested arpeggios begin with the first or second finger.

Did you cover starting the major triad arpeggio using the pinky? (C on the 8th fret of E string with pinky, E on the 7th fret of A string with 3rd finger, G on the 5th fret of the D string with first finger)...

This is also a very common way to finger a major triad.

I like to work on being able to play each arpeggio starting with any finger. This way, wherever you find yourself on the fretboard you can play the chord you want without excessive position shifting.

True, true, and I although I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, I should have at least mentioned that shape. Part of the problem was because I was doing everything in C major and purposefully avoiding 4 string shapes so people could think more "horizontally," which meant that the shape that would have required the pinky on C now only required the 2nd finger on C on the A string, 1st on E on the D and then the open G. So I apologize for that oversight.

However, I'm not necessarily a fan of the notion that you should practice all arpeggios and all scales starting on different fingers. There are definitely fingers and fingerings which are better than others. I find little practical use for starting a major arpeggios with the third finger, for example except for maybe fingering C(3) E(2) G(1) C(4) way up on the neck. Using the 3rd finger to start minor arpeggios is even more pointless, IMHO.