Playing Piano Arpeggios

Video Transcript

"An Arpeggio like all other musical terms is a word that comes from Italian. When we play Arpeggios we are playing broken chords. That is the meaning of an Arpeggio. For example, if I have the C Major Triad when I play the chord I play all the notes together. When I play the Arpeggio I break them up. Now when I play an Arpeggio I don’t have to play just the three notes like a scale I can play more Octaves. I can play the three notes and then keep playing them higher and higher on the piano until I reach another C and then I can stop. For example, I will play three Octaves of the C Major Arpeggio. Now there’s different ways to play Arpeggios. The way that I played this way was just playing the chords straight up but broken then playing it again the next Octave playing it again the next Octave and ending on the root note C and then I came back down. Another way that I can play it is I can play all the inversions as well. So I play C up to C and then I switch and I start on the second note of the chord and I play one Octave of the Arpeggio and then I go up to the next note of the chord."