CHORD CHANGES AND ARPEGGIOS
GETTING STARTED WITH…
Play better chords and improve your accuracy by turning some easy shapes into arpeggios
GETTING STARTED
Before you get stuck in with our lesson, make sure you know these two chords: A and D.
Changing between open chords smoothly is a hurdle every guitarist faces early on. It takes perseverance, but once you can do it, you can play a huge number of songs. This month we’ll be helping you to test your changes by playing some arpeggios – which just means picking the strings one at a time. This checks you are fretting accurately, trains your pickinghand precision, and it’s a great musical alternative to strumming. As you pick each string, you’ll hear whether it’s fretted properly. If it isn’t, the note will buzz or choke. If that happens, check the following: