Minor arpeggios guitar lesson. Circle of fourths guitar exercise. How to work out chords by understanding Arpeggios.
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Here is the video script:
Having worked on the Major set of Arpeggios and Chords played round the Circle of Fourths that we have covered in the last three Sound Bites in this series, it is relatively easy to convert the entire exercise from Major to Minor.
As far as the arpeggios go, the difference between the Major and Minor set is just one note - the third in each arpeggio gets changed to the flatted third. So instead of starting by playing 1 3 5 8 5 3 as we did for the major arpeggio, we play 1 b3 5 8 5 b3. But notice how this is done by changing our starting finger from the second finger... ...to the first finger . We then continue with 1 b3 5 7 5 b3 .
This arpeggio has the rather odd name of E minor Major 7. I prefer its alternative name, which is E minor natural seventh. Next comes Em7 with the formula 1 b3 5 b7 and finally Em6 1 b3 5 6 . My preferred fingering for the minor 6th uses just two strings.
So that is our set of minor arpeggios Minor , Minor Natural 7th , Minor 7th , and Minor 6th. We then take this same pattern round the circle of fourths by moving the root note up to A then down to D across to G down to C and so on.
I have created a special backing track to help with this exercise and you should find a link to that below the video screen. You might like to have a go at creating the chords to go with these arpeggios using the same process we went over for the major series.
The rule is to start by using open position chord shapes to start with, but I will warn you that, with the minor series we don't get beyond the third set before we are forced to switch to movable chord shapes.
Anyway, I'll go over my approach to forming the chords in the next sound bite.
