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Summary: Arpeggios are a great lead guitar technique. Learn how to play a lead guitar riff in A major in this free video clip guitar lesson.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"In this example, I'm going to kind of amp it up a little bit using kind of rapidly swept arpeggios--something you'd hear on a more technical kind of thing. And with the backing tracks it will sound like this. Pretty much what I did there was just played arpeggios, so nine ten nine on the G, B, and E strings, and then did what's kind of like a partial arpeggio, and then back on the F arpeggio, sixth fret on the B string, high E on the fifth, eighth. And then coming back on the A note. So kind of a technical sounding thing like that."
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