LESSON } Playing Skills

Example 5 Arpeggios On Two Strings

This is another chordal example using arpeggios on the first and second strings. Again, start with a downstroke before a repeating economy picking pattern is used.

Study Piece Using Ideas From The Examples

We start off with an arpeggio line similar to that in Example 5, a little reminiscent of players like Zakk Wylde and John Norum. Start with a downstroke, using the direction to dictate your economy picking. There is a scale run at bar 9 before another arpeggio idea is introduced at bar 10 using the first, second and third strings. Follow the picking directions and aim for fluidity within your playing. In bars 18-21 we switch back to a series of scale runs which outline the chords played by the rhythm section, before ending with a descending and ascending run in the penultimate bar before resolving to a sustained A note.