The Art of Fusion Guitar 2 - Arpeggios

In the second installment of his fusion guitar series, Maurice Arenas presents a complete syllabus of arpeggios — from triads all the way up to 13th chords — formulated for sweep picking and hybrid picking. These shapes turn up across rock, blues, jazz and fusion in the playing of artists like George Benson, Frank Gambale, Tal Farlow, John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen, Shawn Lane, Al DiMeola and Larry Carlton.

Maurice uses a graded system: Level 1 arpeggios sweep straight across the strings with no shifts, Level 2 adds a shift, and Level 3 a couple of shifts. Each form is demonstrated slowly (and clean, so nothing hides behind distortion) before speeding up, and all shapes are charted in the included PDF book.

What's covered, chapter by chapter

• Major and minor triads in two and three octaves
• Seventh-chord arpeggios: Major 7, Minor 7, Maj7#5, Dominant 7, Min/Maj7, Min7b5, Dim7 and Minor 6
• Ninths: Major 9, Minor 9, 9th, 7(b9) and Min7b5(b9)
• Elevenths and thirteenths: 11th, Minor 11, Maj9#11, 13th, Major 13#11, Minor 13
• Diminished and augmented (symmetrical) arpeggios
• Arpeggios found in the major, harmonic minor and jazz melodic minor scales
• Arpeggio choices and formulas over a G7 blues and a C minor blues (à la "Equinox" or "Moment's Notice")
• Closing demonstration over a G7 fusion blues in the style of Larry Carlton

By the end you'll have a movable, organized vocabulary of nearly every practical arpeggio form, plus concrete ways to apply them over standard and minor blues progressions.