One of the more difficult techniques to master on the guitar is performing fast arpeggios, often played as a series of single notes on adjacent, and sometimes non-adjacent, strings. The term “arpeggio ...

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Guitar skills: Sweep picking is a technique best suited to arpeggios played one note per string. The picking technique itself is much the same as strumming a chord in slow motion. Try holding a barre ...

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The arpeggios in Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” are some of the most recognizable notes in the history of grunge, and apparently those were recorded by the rhythm guitarist stepping into the lead ...