{"id":370,"date":"2011-04-26T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:32:48","slug":"simple-arpeggio-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/simple-arpeggio-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Arpeggio Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arpeggios often cause a lot of confusion because I think most people believe they can&#8217;t be that simple. In reality, an arpeggio is nothing more than breaking the notes of a chord up and playing them one at a time instead of all together (and as my kids like to tell me, Arpeggio was NOT Pinocchio&#8217;s father.)<\/p>\n<p>So in this example taken from a common lesson I do with my private students, you&#8217;ll get to practice your right hand picking while your left hand really doesn&#8217;t do anything but hold a chord shape.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great way to get a nice sound without a lot of work. It&#8217;s common in many different styles of music. Hope you like it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtNC1Mfkfwg?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>This is also covered, along with many other patterns, in my <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-strumming-and-rhythm-mastery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strumming &amp; Rhythm Mastery<\/a> course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arpeggios often cause a lot of confusion because I think most people believe they can&#8217;t be that simple. In reality, an arpeggio is nothing more than breaking the notes of a chord up and playing them one at a time instead of all together (and as my kids like to tell me, Arpeggio was NOT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}