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Loud & Proud: A New Approach to Diminished-Seven Arpeggios

Posted 05/24/2012 at 10:55am | by Glenn Proudfoot

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Glenn Proudfoot shows you a new approach of diminished-seven arpeggios.

The following content is related to the July 2012 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

One of my favorite ways to expand on the typical blues/rock/metal vocabulary is to introduce fast melodic bursts based on diminished-seven arpeggios. In this month's column, the focus will be on the E diminished-seven arpeggio, which consists of the notes E, G, Bb and C#. I like to challenge myself to find all possible ways to utilize this arpeggio up and down the fretboard in as seamless a way as possible.

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shredderthos

May 26, 2012 at 4:37pm

And figure 7 in the first measure the 11 on the high E string should be a 15. A slide up from the 12.

shredderthos

May 26, 2012 at 4:35pm

Figure 5 suffers also from the second to last note at the end of the first measure. The 13 should be on the A string and not the D.

shredderthos

May 26, 2012 at 10:36am

The tab for Figure 3 is wrong also. the note marked 13 on the D string should be 13 on the A string.

It would be nice if these were in power tab format for subscribers so that you could listen to the tab itself and catch these kind of mistakes - hint... hint...

shredderthos

May 26, 2012 at 7:05am

The TAB for this lesson - Figure 1 on page 102 of guitar world - is wrong for the highest note. It is tabbed out as the 15th fret on the b string - a D. It should be like Glenn plays it in the video 17 - a E - fitting in the E diminished scale.

D sounds kind of cool though.