C Major: Bass Chord Arpeggios

Video Transcript

"OK, so we've learned this new major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished pattern for chords and now we can use that with our triads and our arpeggios. Lets look at C major and let's actually do the arpeggio this time. So we will be doing the octave. OK? So are one chord, also first scale degree, they're all related, is C major. C, E, G, C, G, E, C. OK? That's major. The next one is minor, D. So we use our first finger. D, F, A, D, F OK? Same shape, two frets up for E minor. OK? The F major, to a major arpeggio. There's also our four chord, our five chord here, G, is major. Now, you hit A. Let's go down, this is twelfth fret so let's move back down to the octave and do it down here. A. Use our second and our first finger for that shape instead of the third finger and second finger. Or what we usually, in a move will be fourth finger and third finger. Because, first finger is not occupied playing open A. So always try to make it easiest on your hand. Then we have the only diminished arpeggio and triad. Then we have B, D, F, octave, F, D, B which leads us back to C major. OK? Another important thing is trying to alternate these fingers still. Don't forget about these fingers that we're really concentrating on our left hand. We still want to try to play, you know, C, E, G, C, G, E, C. Then D minor etc., like that. So keep remembering to alternate these fingers even as we work our way through these arpeggios."