Latin Guitar Mastery's video: Guitar Arpeggio Pattern

This is an arpeggio pattern that I practice often and is very common amongst guitarists. Its a great right hand arpeggio exercise and I'm going to take you through in and give you some tips on how to perform it. First we're going to look at the right hand without the left. We're going to start by playing p i m a m i on the bottom 4 strings. We're going to repeat that on strings 5 4 and 3, and then again on strings 4 3 2. We will then play a m i on strings 1 2 3, and 2 3 4 consequtively. Looking at the left hand now. We play through a series of chords with the bottom E bass note open (a as a pedal). The chords are E F G A B C D with strings 1 and 2 open. Some tips: Use planting, that is place your fingers on the strings with the RH just before you play. This will give you more accuracy and control. Start slow and use a metronome to build up your speed. Its amazing how good this RH arpeggio technique is as it opens up a huge amount of repertoire based on this technique. Tip 2: Use the pedal bass tone to help you move between chords, play the E for the next chord straight after the arpeggio, this will give you more time to shift. It also helps with the phrasing. You can apply this pattern many other chord progressions. download pdf: http://www.latinguitarmastery.com