arpeggios ?

[splatter]

Who here not only knows how to use them but uses them. I've been playing for over 40 years, I'm self-taught with the odd lesson here and there. I consider myself a hack. I'm a technical hack, meaning when I play covers I play them like the originals. There is the occasional cover that I have to fudge the lead on because it is either above my playing level or I just can't figure it out.
Anyway, I know the scales and how to use them but until recently I never understood what people meant by "playing over the chord changes". I recently watched a youtube video where the guy was talking about using arpeggios to play over the chord changes. I had never used arpeggios except to play an arpeggiated chord.
So I'm now trying to learn the arpeggio shapes and how to use them. I'm old and it's not as easy to learn as it once was. I've started by learning the minor arpeggio shapes but I'm a bit confused. The things I find showing the minor arpeggios are different. Some leave notes out. I assume that its kinda like how the pentatonic scale compares to the Dorian scale. The Dorian contains all the notes of the pentatonic but it doesn't work the other way. I don't understand why I would want to leave notes out of the arpeggios. I'm not talking about playing every note in the arpeggio. I'm talking about knowing every note in the arpeggio.
Anyway so I'm wondering if any of you can point me to somewhere I can find all the arpeggios on the fretboard or am I gonna have to sit down and just figure them out.

EDIT

ok I now know that part of what I was looking at earlier was not correct. The guy that was teaching the arpeggio was adding notes and he didn't say so.
I sat down and mapped out all the minor arpeggios. Now it makes sense. After I learn these I'll move on to major then 7th and so on.

 

[SpiderWars]

Not exactly what you're asking but here's a slightly different approach. There is also an older one with a young PG that covers similar.

 

[stratjacket]

I’ll try. I know it can be confusing, I’ve spent the last few months trying to learn all the theory stuff I had always put off.

It’s still chord/scale related. Do you understand how to construct a chord? For example the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of a major scale makes a Major chord; 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th makes 7th chord. So all the chord shape notes can be an arpeggio. You can invert them, only play parts, create new shapes around the fretboard with the same notes, etc...

If you have an iPad or Tablet, you can try All Chord. It’s free and I love it. Choose a chord and at the top, select Arp and it will show all the shapes for that chord across the fretboard.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/all-guitar-chords/id416947605

 

[splatter]

I’ll try. I know it can be confusing, I’ve spent the last few months trying to learn all the theory stuff I had always put off.

It’s still chord/scale related. Do you understand how to construct a chord? For example the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of a major scale makes a Major chord; 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th makes 7th chord. So all the chord shape notes can be an arpeggio. You can invert them, only play parts, create new shapes around the fretboard with the same notes, etc...

If you have an iPad or Tablet, you can try All Chord. It’s free and I love it. Choose a chord and at the top, select Arp and it will show all the shapes for that chord across the fretboard.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/all-guitar-chords/id416947605

yes, I understand chord structure and if you look at the OP again I edited it.I sat down and mapped out the minor arpeggios and now it makes sense .
Thanks for the help

 

[ClintN667]

Arpeggios are fun. I would start out with 1-3-5 shapes both minor and major. Another thing my teacher has me use was drones. If you have spotify look for Musicians Practice Partner. There is different cello drones in different notes. Like a C drone. Its an excellent resource to work with different intervals and how they sound against the root.

 

[stratjacket]

Arpeggios are fun. I would start out with 1-3-5 shapes both minor and major. Another thing my teacher has me use was drones. If you have spotify look for Musicians Practice Partner. There is different cello drones in different notes. Like a C drone. Its an excellent resource to work with different intervals and how they sound against the root.

Thanks. I’ll look for that in other services (I don’t use Spotify).
I made a couple of quick recordings where I just strummed the major and minor chords of the G major scale. Held each chord for 4 bars. Then practice over that for scale shapes, phrasing, etc... works pretty good.

 

[errrrrl]

I like how arpeggios sound and admire people who can just belt them out like nothing but there is no way I can ever play'em. I am like grape ape on guitar man