Right Hand Arpeggios for Classical Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com I'm a professional guitar instructor and today we are going to be discussing beginning classical guitar. With this next exercise I like to discuss a little bit about some more right hand techniques stuff. We are going to work a little bit more arpeggios as we can of discuss a little bit in the Spanish study I have some studies for the right hand some taken from Mauro Giuliani 120 Studies for the right hand. I'm just going to give you a few of these to get you started. Exercise number one basically all these exercises deal with the use for the C chord, and the G7 chord. In exercise number one that I have here it just deals with the chording technique we are using the P,I, and M fingers. Just with a moving base line with our thumb there. Repeated. Then with a big C chord. Exercise number two this is were we start to get a actual arpeggio technique. Here I'm using the P, I and M fingers. On the C chord I will be planting, planting those fingers, applying them downward pressure into the strings, releasing that pressure as I play the arpeggio. Here is a example exercise number two. Exercise number three is a example of the a D sending arpeggio now here we can't plant all three fingers but what we would like to try to do is try to plant the P and the M fingers. Okay so the P and M. here we go. "