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    MAJOR ARPEGGIOS

    Dec 29, 2020 4 minutes

    Hey there, bass players! This lesson is going to help us spy one of the most essential tools in the musical arsenal, the major arpeggio. Chances are, you’ve been playing major arpeggios without even knowing it, especially if you’ve learned a 12-bar blues pattern or a handful of songs by the Beatles. Now we’ll put a face to the name, play through a few exercises to ingrain the concept, and identify arpeggios in their natural habitat.

    A great way to think about an arpeggio is to relate it to a chord. A chord is a group of notes, played together,

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