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ERNESTO HOMEYER - Arpeggios A Go Go

Ernesto Homeyer This month's lesson:
Arpeggios A Go Go
Born in Buenos Aires, Ernesto Homeyer picked up the guitar at age 12 where his teachers immediately recognized his exceptional abilities. Influenced by Malmsteen, Schenker and Van Halen, Ernesto's talents quickly developed into the style he is now so well known for.
Performance Notes :

Here's an easy way to deal with Maj7 chords if you want to use an arpeggio:The first example is a regular F#m arpeggio across all strings. It combines both alternate and sweep-picking.The second example is the same shape with one more note added: D. This approach is very useful since we can use that arpeggio now over a Dmaj7 chord. Why? Because we have all four notes of that chord; root, third, fifth and major seventh or D, F#, A and C# respectively. Notice the use of slides for that extra note(first finger on the low notes and pinky on the high ones).One thing I have to say about Maj7 chords: always use the root as a passing tone because it just sounds terrible when it's the last note of a phrase!Well, I hope this shed some new light into your arpeggios 'cause it sure helped me!

See ya!


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