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But how can we learn to play those notes in chords to produce melodies? The answer is to learn how to create and follow musical patterns using arpeggios .

The principle is the same with guitar: If you want to be creative, you have to play creatively! But the question must be asked: how can you play creatively without going to music school and spending 6-8 hours per day learning intricate concepts like key signatures, diatonic and pentatonic patterns, octaves, semitones and forms of musical notation? The solution is simple! Like many other guitarists before me, I've found the quick route which uses all of the advanced concepts you would learn in musical school, but doesn't require any real understanding of them whatsoever to create your own unique melodies.

So what? Well, the two critical pieces of information here are that chords themselves are essential pieces of scales, and that you know how to play them.

Knowing how to play a guitar chord is pretty much the only pre-requisite required to adequetly comprehend the contents of this guide.

This means that you can play scales (and create melodies from them), just by using the basic chords that you already know.

I know a good number of chords and I know a bit about scales.

Executing an arpeggio requires the player to play the sounds of a chord individually to differentiate the notes.

For a deeper explanation of arpeggio, consider this excerpt from Wikipedia, the free online dictionary: An arpeggio is a group of notes which are played one after the other, either going up or going down.

The important thing to know is that an arpeggio is a scheme of notes taken from a chord or a broken chord that essentially acts as a melody.

If you find the above explanation even the least bit confusing, do not worry .

The chord may, for example, be a simple chord with the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of the scale in it (this is called a "tonic chord").

Most guitarists who know how to play a few basic chords don't really know what they are playing.

To go along with the car analogy, it's like driving an automatic to get from point A to point B without having to understand this chart: Let me explain .

I want to become more serious with my guitar playing so I can start making my own music but I have NO direction what so ever (sadly).

An arpeggio is a type of broken chord.

The author of this eBook assumes you know nothing except how to strum a basic guitar chord.

This guide is designed for the musicaly illiterate.

I think I have some talent and musicality and might have potential to be a musician one day.

In music, arpeggios are notes taken from within chords.

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But other than that I have nothing.

Arpeggios can rise or fall for more than one octave.

Basically, I'm very dedicated to playing and try to play for a couple hours per day.

McNasty17 @ Ultimate-Guitar.com Creating your own melodies - the only way to get in touch with your creative side It's like sitting in the back seat to learn how to drive.

An arpeggio in the key of C major going up two octaves would be the notes (C, E, G, C, E, G, C).

The notes all belong to one chord.

Despite the popular notion, they are not playing a whole bunch of notes together because they happened to sound good together, but they are playing particular notes in scales because musicians over centuries have discovered patterns of notes in scales that harmonize with each other.

I'm at a complete road block with my playing.

- Comment made by Jerry31x @ Ultimate-Guitar.com Okay here's the deal, I've been playing since January but I'm not sure where or how to take my guitar playing to the next level.

Other types of broken chords play chord notes out of sequence or more than one note but less than the full chord simultaneously.

It's that simple.

I'm just not sure what to do next.

If you want to learn how to drive, you need to first be in the front seat.

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