Beginning Classical Guitar - Celestial Arpeggios

Beginning Classical Guitar - Celestial Arpeggios Video Transcript and Lesson Examples

Hello, friends. Chris with beginningguitaronline.com. In this segment of classical guitar basics, we're building upon the forward arpeggio pattern that we'd explored in the previous segment. You've been working on planting your right hand on home bass strings. This is a critical skill for playing fingerstyle acoustic guitar, as well as continuing your adventure into the classical guitar world. 

Walk Through of the Chords

Here we'll be playing through an ascending E major chord pattern. We'll be playing an E chord in the first position. Then we'll shift up to the second position, replant our third and fourth fingers a little bit higher, rather than using two and three, play this F sharp suspended chord. And then we're going to shift the same chord shape up two frets to the fourth position for this G sharp suspended chord. Back to the second position. And home to E. Once again, E, two, three, four. F sharp, two, three, four. G sharp, two, three. Back to F sharp, two, three. Home to E, two, three, four.

Using our thumb like a guitar pick, we're able to hear all of the chord tones one at a time that way. Now, we'll be using our forward arpeggio pattern we learned in the previous segment to play each of these notes individually, starting with our thumb walking from the sixth string to the fourth string on each chord. 

It'll sound just like this. Now, shift to second. Shift to fourth. Back to second. Home to first. Two, three, rest. Coming to stop with the side of the right hand. 

Let's play through it together again. Here we go. E major, one, two, ready, play. Second position, F sharp. Fourth position, G sharp. Second position. First position. Two, three, four.

Now, let's play it at a slightly faster speed together. One, two, ready, play. Second. Ready fourth. Back to second. Two, three, four.

The beautiful thing about this celestial arpeggio étude is that it sounds great no matter what speed you play it at. As always, thanks for watching. If you haven't yet, click Subscribe below. Send us a comment or a question. And please visit us at beginningguitaronline.com. While you're there, sign up for our newsletter and check out all the educational resources we have available to you. Thanks for watching.