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I was just doing some practicing and memorising Major 7 Arp Shapes and I noticed these have some awkward patterns.
I am a bit stumped to the advice given on Justin's page here
http://www.justinguitar.com/en/AR-001-Major7arp.php
He says never to Barre when playing Arpeggios(in the Tips For Learning paragraph), but some of these Maj7 patterns I find my self rolling my fingers over to the next note. I can't see how you can avoid this or whether that rolling would be classed as Barring?
Pattern 3 I roll my index finger from the G string to the B srtring on those notes (both ascending and descending)
Pattern 4 I roll my 3rd finger from the G string to the B string (both ascending and descending) .
I haven't even entertained Pattern 2 yet. Eeeeek!
If, like Justin says, you use only the tips of your fingers, I would find in these Maj7 patterns that you would be kind of "Jumping Strings" or "Hopping onto Notes"and it sounds sort of disjointed.
Is the rolling of the fingers a bad habit?
Thanks.
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Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
@mike_l
It's does seem that is the more natural way your fingers want to go and it works too without sounding both strings at the same time.
@ChrisMusic
I think I get you Chris but am not used to Sweep picking, it's a million miles from the style I play. I tend to alternate pick the Arp, I'm really a medium paced player, not shred at all.
In your reply did you mean to play the whole Arpeggio with just 1 finger ie: the same finger? Sounds tricky.
Is rolling such a bad thing? Does is cause problems with something I have not yet discovered?
Thanks guys.
I use the middle bit of the fretting part of my finger as a "pivot point" so I can pull back to go to the higher* string or push forward to fret the lower* string.
*pitch
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
For the rolling-pivoting part an exercise like the slow strum-sweep suggested by @ChrisMusic would help.
Atb,
@ChrisMusic
Thanks for taking the time for that. I know exactly what you mean know. I had a go tonight just with the index finger doing all down picks from 6th to 1st string on the same fret and then up picks form 1st to 6th string.
I can see how it could work although the notes sound very "abrupt" for want of a better word. I'll keep having a go at this, like anything with me though, anything I have to put work into takes me a bit of time but I do generally see some improvement for it.
Like @Mike_l explanation, when I roll I am using the last joint of the finger only to roll not a completely flat finger etc.
I'm going to keep going with the Arpeggios anyway until they are ingrained in my head like the Major and Pent scale patterns and as they are all embedded in the scales anyway that should be a big help.
@Catthan
Thanks for the help. Those players you mentioned are real demon players. I can only dream ;-)
Thanks guys.
@Barney
I'm with you on that, even though I don't play the Arps so fast yet, I can manage to not have the 2 notes ringing out at once I sort of manipulate the finger joint somewhat. Whether that will be the case as they get quicker I don't know.
I'll keep having a go at Chris technique though.