C arpeggio

Home Up A minor arpeggio C arpeggio Dm Arpeggio Em Arpeggio F Arpeggio G Arpeggio

The illustration below shows the notes of the C Major chord. It is a good idea to pick each note one at a time. Start with the Root note which is the C note for the C chord. Pick the C note then pick the E and G notes. Try to play all of them and memorize all of the note positions.

Notice how each note fits into the Am pentatonic scale. Notice how each note is positioned over all of the positions of the Am pentatonic scale. Of course all these notes can be found in the key of C major and the C major pentatonic scale. Record the C chord and play these notes over this chord. You will begin to memorize each note and the notes of the C major chord.

Example of playing in the yellow box below.

 -----------------------8------------------------
 ----------------5--8------8--5-----------------
 ------------5--------------------5--------------
 --------5---------------------------5-----------
 ----7----------------------------------7--------
 -8-----------------------------------------8----

 

 

 

 

Compare the illustration below to the one above. Notice the positioning of each note where you can play the arpeggios. The illustration below shows the notes starting at the 8th fret. This would be a good location to play over the C major chord and scale.

Playing in the position above, example.

 --------------------------8--10---------8----------------
 -----------------------8---------10--8-----8-------------
 --------------------9--------------------------9---7------
 ---------------10-------------------------------------10--
-------7--10-----------------------------------------------
 --8--------------------------------------------------------

The illustration below shows all the notes of the key of C major. Compare each illustration and locate all the notes above. The image above does not have the D F A or B notes. The notes above are only the notes of the C chord. Check out some C major progressions.

 

The illustration to the left shows all the notes and chords that make up the Key of C major.
The outer notes of the circle are the chords. The 3 notes in each section are the notes that make up each chord.
Example: The 3 notes that make up the C Major chord are C, E, G.
The 3 notes that make up the Am chord are the notes A, C, E.

Good Luck, 

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