Intervallic Arpeggios

[JohnJumper]

I just downloaded some tab for Intervallic Arpeggios from Jason Becker's web site. They sound really cool!! Why are they called Intervallic Arpeggios? What characteristic makes them Intervallic Arpeggios?

[Poparad]

They're based on normal arpeggios, but rather than being built all from 3rds, they jump around by different intervals.

The first example is a Cmaj9 arpeggio, but rather than being played in thirds as C, E, G, B, D, the notes are reordered to get different intervals in there, namely perfect 5ths: C G D E B.


Most chord voicings on guitar are not built from thirds, but rather are spread out a little more and have some wider intervals in them. Think of this as arpeggiating those voicings rather than playing a stricly third based arpeggio.

[DemonSorcerer]

All arpeggios are intervallic runs, since they're made of inthervals planted against a root...of course, there is something called open-voiced chords...it's when you displace the notes in the chord...for example C E G...instead of playing that, you could go and play G E C...so there you have an open-voiced triad (as explained by Jon Finn in his article: "Sweep-picking for the non-shredder)

David