pyridine
Oct 10 2004, 09:07 AM
Hello!
I just visited the requirements for guitarists, grade 5, and I saw that you need to play scales/arpeggios. I understand how to play scales with i,m and m,a fingers (apojando right?) and I haven't ever heard anyone playing arpeggios in scale chords. Can anyone describe me the fingering? What are common chords? the tonic, subdominant and dominant? or sevenths chords are also common?
Thank you very much!
TenorClef
Oct 11 2004, 12:56 PM
Arpeggios are always played tirando and not based strictly around conventional 'guitar chords' as positions over two octaves mean you move over different standard chord shapes.
Regarding fingering use common sense, if it feels like to much of a stretch then locate a simpler more accessible way of playing the arrpegio, some of the recommended fingering in the ABRSM Guitar scale book are quite laughable as my students will testify.