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Summary: The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn an C Major scale arpeggio on it in this free video clip series.
Jason Salmon has been playing the violin for 17 years, and has been teaching violin for seven years. He taught for the Ladsonian Foundation in New York, which offers affordable violin...read more
"Now, arpeggios are different from scales. First, they're based upon thirds, meaning we go up in thirds; we don't go up consecutively with our fingers. It's more like 1-3-1 next to the next string, okay? Now, in an arpeggio we have only three notes. In this particular arpeggio, it's C natural, E natural, and G natural. Now, those notes keep repeating throughout the arpeggio. It's just sometimes with different fingers and a different position later on. So, in our C tonic major arpeggio there ore three notes, remember: C natural, E natural, and G natural. Those are the notes for our C tonic major arpeggio."