Arpeggios for rest-strokers

Scoredog

That is correct Appel except I eliminate the first note on the Low E string...personal preference and adds to the consistency of the picking of the run. I also often start the run on the 5th string say Eb (5th string) to Gb (4th string) if I am playing over a D7. I only started doing it this way recently but it has advantages and is starting to click. The sliding into some of the notes when slowing things down allows for some greasiness (for lack of a better word). I never do all downs, have not tried that but w/o an up it would be for something slower I would surmise. I am avoiding the Gamble sweep picking sound on these type of runs.

Bones

Hey Appel, I still can't get the format to look right when I copy and paste your tab into a post. I'm on a PC. Is there a trick to it?

Thanks

Appel

Heh heh. There is ... I'll make you a deal: I'll tell you my formatting trick if you explain what you were on about, with that fingering - how it relates to rest-stroke picking or how it should work smoothly with down-strokes.

And you have to "like" at least one of my posts. Gawd you guys are cheap with your likes ... what kind of social-media-based relationship building do you cruel GJ bastards subscribe to, anyway?



Anyway, what you need to do for those diagrams is to use BBCode to force a monospace font for the diagram - that is, a font that has equal width assigned for each character, regardless of kind, as opposed to a variable width font, which has widths that differ between characters and bugger up our diagrams - but which does make text easier to scan than monospace fonts; note that the default font for text in a post on this forum is a variable space font. For my fretboard diagrams, I like New Courier.

Of course you know that square brackets are used to signal a formatting command in BBCode. So, you would replace the curly brackets in the following with square brackets:

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With square brackets around the commands, what you get is this:


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Slick, no?

Bones

Yay, that worked thanks. Ok that arp going up is similar to what you guys are talking about but a little variation adding a chromatic down from the M7 to the 6th for some color tones.

Going up in D maj.

:..................5.......7.......9..........12
N---|---|---|---|--8|---|---|---|--9|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|---|---|---|--7|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|---|---|--5|--6|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|--3|---|---|--4|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|--1|--2|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Then continuing down from there using the even number notes per string idea to facilitate alternate picking and still use rest stroke rule of downstroke every string change.

Just a thought....

:..................5.......7.......9..........12
N---|---|---|---|---|---|--2|--1|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|---|---|---|--4|---|---|--3|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|---|---|--6|--5|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|--8|---|---|--7|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|---|--9|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

Of course, the 1st string 5th fret is the same note as the 2nd string 10th fret so you can do it either way but I was trying to keep the number of notes during the descending line an even number per string so that there wouldn't be any double down strokes since I'm not very fast but of course shredders can play double down strokes at speed no problem it seems.

Appel

Ok, now I see what you were doing - it's always the descending runs that I stumble over, and I'm trying to find more ways to finger things just like the run you've described - that's a nice example. Now, where's my "like"? (

Bones

Hey Appel, ur on the LIKE scoreboard!

I'm not a lead player but it seems like the ascending runs are MUCH easier and forgiving while it seems like it pays to find ways to facilitate/simplify the descending runs.

This is really interesting, I'm going to try to apply this idea to the major, minor, and dominant/diminished/altered arps that I've been working on.