Biggest arpeggio you know?

Before reading your thread I was quite sure you were talking about stuff like "My friends of misery" by Metallica & "Seemann" by Rammstein. They'r the only arpeggios I can play. Besides, I do love arpeggios.

 

I just played an arpeggio starting with an open B string, ending on the 24th fret of the G string. How's that for size?

 

To make that a pure arpeggio (i.e., outlining one specific chord), that would most likely have been a B7(b9). I suppose it could have been a Bmin7(b9) - B phrygian.

This illustrates the point that any "biggest" arpeggio is the function of how many strings your bass has and how you have it tuned. On a four-banger in standard tuning, the biggest you can get is EMaj7 or EminMaj7.

 

It could just be a 1st inversion G major arpeggio ( a.k.a. G/B )

 

It could also have been a B+ chord, but I had G/B in mind - and was being facetious. I don't know where you get the b9 from unless you thought I wrote C string.

 

Studied theory for going on 3 years now and I have to say I'm fuzzy on the whole "big arpeggio" term.

 

Lil arpeggio....C, E, G
Big arpeggio....C, E, G, B

Sorry ..couldnt resist!...LOL

 

I think the OP was talking about the span of fingerboard you have to cross from 1st to last note.