Month: May 2020

While My Guitar Gently Weeps Intro

Here is the piano intro for “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” arranged for guitar. Though the part is really just single notes I play this sometimes using octaves. I think it fattens it up a bit especially when playing acoustic guitar. I have 4 different ways to play it here.

  1. Single notes
  2. Octaves starting at 2nd position – 1st and 3rd string or 2nd and 4th string,
  3. Octaves starting at 7th position – 1st and 3rd string or 2nd and 4th string,
  4. Octaves using 1st and 4th string or 2nd and 5th string – so 2 strings in between meant to be played with fingers or pick and fingers.
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Arpeggio Exercise

Arpeggios are a big part of playing guitar and probably any instrument. They are great to use in improvised solos and fills. Learning these also help you learn the neck a bit better and understand what’s inside each chord better. I’ve written out an exercise using the chords in the key of C.

It simply follows the harmonized C scale using appropriate 7ths, as well. So that means each arpeggiated chord is some kind of 7th chord.

Cmaj7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 G7 Am7 Bm7(b5)

Scroll down for the video related to this exercise…

Arpeggio PDF

Below are the chords that go with each arpeggio. They follow each arpeggio right up the neck. One practice suggestion – play the chord then play the corresponding arpeggio right after it. Listen to how the strummed chord and the single note arpeggio connect sonically.

Chord PDF