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A Minor Arpeggio Sheet Music

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Summary: The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn how to read an A Minor scale arpeggio on sheet music in this free video clip series.

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By Jason Salmon
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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

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"We've learned how to construct and play an A tonic minor arpeggio on the violin, but now let's take a look at it on staff paper. This is our treble clef. Now this is our first scale degree which is A, so we put a 1 under it. The second is C natural. C natural, usually in an A major scale which is where this A tonic minor arpeggio is derived from, has three sharps. One of them is C sharp. Now, we'll natural it. We have to put that accidental next to it. Third is E. A has a 4 and also has a 0 over it. That's for an open string. Remember, we were talking about playing it with an open string. That's what the symbol is, a zero. Five, C natural. E open, the seventh has a third degree, third finger over it because it's played with your third finger. The eighth has a first, nine has a 3, and ten has a fourth finger."

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