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Tapping Arpeggios (Part 1)

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Now that you have begun working on a series of coordination and finger strengthening exercises, you’ll no doubt be ready to incorporate some more musical ideas into your practice routine. This video course is the first of two that will help you to begin playing arpeggios on the bass using the two-handed tapping technique. A good understanding of basic music theory will be very helpful to you when studying these two courses.

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This course is 17 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Diatonic Arpeggios in C Major

This video explains basic triads that arise from harmonising the C major scale. This course will show you how to play these arpeggios over one and two octaves.

2. Exercise #14

This exercise consists of the root, third, fifth and octave of each chord, tapped in an ascending sequence. This is great way to begin learning to use the tapping technique.

3. Exercise #15

This exercise represents a very effective way of playing arpeggios and has been used by Victor Wooten and Billy Sheehan among others.

4. Playing Two Octave Arpeggios

It’s a great idea to play two octave arpeggios. The process of learning this will help you to ‘see’ the arpeggio across a wider stretch of the fingerboard.

5. Exercise #21

This exercise consists of all of the diatonic arpeggios from the key of F major. Each one is played over two octaves, making for a very challenging exercise.