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Quartal Arpeggios

22 May 2010

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I went through the theory of Quartal Harmony in my Previous article. Now lets move on to the the arpeggios themselves. Charting out the intervals, we have… Lets look at these notes over one octave on the guitar neck. As you can see these have som big stretches in them. You may find it easier to play them [...]

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Quartal Harmony for the Guitarist

20 May 2010

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If you want to get to the arpeggio charts, click here: Quartal Arpeggio Charts Background Standard Western musical harmony is based on stacked thirds. So for example a C Major Chord is made by playing a “C”, the note a third above that which would be an “E” then the note a third above that which would [...]

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Sweeping 9th Arpeggios

13 May 2010

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A while ago I spoke about guitar fretboard patterns, and it’s application to Arpeggios. This time I want to extend that idea to cover 9th chords. A pattern that seems to fit 9th chords well is an alternating 3-1-3-1 etc pattern. If you look closely at my article on Pentatonic Scales and Sweeping Picking you’ll see [...]

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The Neapolitan Major Scale

12 May 2010

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I’m unsure about the origins of the Neapolitan Major scale, especially as I would expect the word “Major” to imply a major rather than a minor third (let me know if you can explain the origins). If I write out the intervals, we have… There are few ways of viewing this. When I look at this scale, [...]

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The Harmonic Major Scale

9 May 2010

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Here’s another more unusual scale, the Harmonic Major Scale. I prefer to think of this as a Major scale with a flat 6th note, though you could also consider this as a Harmonic Minor Scale with a major 3rd instead of a minor 3rd. Lets start by drawing out the intervals. Lets look at how to play [...]

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