Oh hi there guys, didn't know you were there. Hi guys, it's Rick here. Hope you're all doing extremely well out there. I know I am. Sorry, I was just playing in one of my favorite riffs there. Today we are going to talk about basic triad arpeggios and how to spice them up a bit and how I spice them up. So I'm going to give you an idea that I use quite a lot just to add a little bit more interest to straight ahead triad arpeggios. I did post a minute long video on Instagram about this but because it's YouTube I can flesh it out just a little bit more which is always great. So why don't we get straight into it and we're going to start in A minor here. So we're going to just play an A minor triad arpeggios. I don't know about you but I always find it very awkward when it's one note per string. That was just a little aside there but I always find it pretty awkward so I try and practice this quite a lot where it's just one note per string. Anyway what we're going to do is just we're going to take this pattern descending straight ahead A minor 7 sorry 8 10 9 10 12 and then back up okay but what we're going to do is we're going to add a little bit of a twist to it just to spice things up a bit and we're going to add a little bit of a turnaround on the top two strings which makes it sound a lot more colourful we're adding the ninth degree over the A root here. I think that sounds absolutely fantastic really love the sound of it so let me just play it nice and slowly just so that you've got it on the your belt so picking wise I'll show you what I'm doing to up up up down down down then we go middle down middle down middle and then continue to come so hybrid picking or you can pick everything if you want and it depends what you prefer. I love the feel and sound of hybrid picking so that's the technique that I'm using for this. Okay great little sounding a pedgio there and just that little addition of the ninth there and that little turnaround at the top really makes it sound a lot more interesting than just a straight ahead minor triad. So the next step is logically once we've got this pattern down it's to literally apply it to different triads different shapes so let's why don't we turn it into a major triad instead of a minor. Okay so all we're doing is adding a major third replacing the minor third with a major third every time. Same picking pattern. Okay again sounds really nice. Okay so we've now got two basic triad pedios minor. Okay so following on from that the next logical step is to create some kind of chord progression. Okay so why don't we do a minor. We're getting twice same major. Okay and then we shift here you've got to be careful of the shifts. This is why I'm doing it really slowly. Why don't we move up to here F sharp minor. Oh sorry E minor. Okay so far we have A minor. Twice C E minor. D. D. And then repeat. Okay so that's just an example progression that you can use with this sort of spicy triad opeggio. So excuse me the next logical step on from that what I would start to do is branch out just from the triad opeggios and start to add seventh opeggios. What I'll do is keep it in one key so let's let's choose A okay. And what we can do is let's let's do an A minor seven. But it's got to be one note per string. Okay so we've got a nice we're using the same principle here on the top to a minor seventh A minor seventh. Let's do dominant seven. Okay you can see where I'm going here. What about major seven? That's more lidian because we've got the sharp fours here. It works great. So what else could we do? We could do minor seven flat five. Basically all I'm doing is altering the formula of the opeggio to fit the chord type. So this is minor seven flat five. Drute. Flat five minor seven flat three. Okay. Then adding the turn around at the top. Okay. What about diminished sevens? Okay so I could go on all day doing this kind of thing. Let's take the dominant seven. That's more of like a lidian dominant sound because we have the sharp four in there along with the dominant opeggio. Oops. Bollocks. Great sound. And you could turn that into diminished. Okay so hopefully this has given you some ideas of how you can spice up just straight ahead starting with straight ahead triad opeggio is just major minor. You can do of course diminishing augmented as well and then branch out and play seventh opeggios using the same turn around that we did with the hybrid picking at the top. So it's little things like that that will make the opeggio stand out a bit more than just doing a straight ahead up and down sweep excuse me one minute. So yeah it's just it's going to be a lot more interesting to listen to than just doing a down and up thing. Okay so hopefully that's given you some tips to try out this for yourself and kind of expand upon that basic idea. You know I always used to do this whenever I'd I'd do and I still do it now whenever I'd pick up a sequence from somebody else or a patent or a lick. I would completely morph it into something else and start adding notes to it and you know turning it backwards, cutting it in half, doing all sorts of things to sort of you know morph it into my own kind of thing. So hopefully you can take this kind of idea and do exactly the same thing. Before I go make sure you check out my website 50% off still it's not going to last much longer so make sure you get on it right now to make some big savings there. Link is in description box below. That's it. Thanks a lot guys. Hope you're enjoying your Easter weekend and I will catch up with you in the next video. Cheers.