Guitar Lessons that Work

7 Guitar exercises to Rock!
Two Octave Arpeggios in C major

These 7 guitar exercises use two octave arpeggios to strengthen your fingers and get you moving around the fretboard. Once you learn these guitar exercises in the key of C major, move everything up to the 5th fret and learn to play this exercise in the key of D major. You can use the same fingering pattern at the new location, just begin at the 5th fret, D note and move everything up two frets. You can use the blank guitar tablature forms to write out your own arpeggio exercises in any key.

Once again, the arpeggio exercise below is played in the key of C major. The first note starts on the C note at the 3rd fret, A string, look below. To construct the arpeggio exercise in key of D major, you would move everything higher two frets. Instead of the first two notes being, 3 – 7, they would be 5 – 9. Every note would be moved up two frets. This would be a good exercise to play and to write out on the blank forms.
The notes of the key of C major are: C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C.
The notes of the key of D major are: D, E, F#, G, A, B, C# and D.

Music is really just mathematical and you can see everything has a pattern that can be repeated.

The illustrations below contain the tablature and the suggested fingering pattern. I’ve included the fingering number system below. 

1 = Index finger
2 = Middle finger
3 = Ring finger
4 = Pinky

Good Luck,

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