02-20-2014, 08:38 AM
(02-20-2014, 12:39 AM)ln cognition Wrote: How about "non-sequential arpeggio"?A lot of guitarists, I have noticed, don't seem to view music in the same way as many other musicians. Part of this is because our view of theory can be very guitar-centric. But a lot of it comes down to a large amount of the guitar community not caring about any instruments beyond guitar, possibly bass and drums...and maybe a keyboard (that, in the guitarists' mind only plays melodies). Of course, a lot of the best guitar-based music wasn't composed with such a narrow way of looking at the whole.
Works for me. lol
But seriously, I don't really find terminology as important as communication. It's just that I don't really want to say something wrong either. People get what you mean when you say arpeggio, even if it's not in accordance with the site you use to justify your use of that term, so there's no problem as people get what you mean.
Agreed.
Although, to be honest, I'm more bothered by the g and f harmonizing in the first stroke than the notes not necessarily being in sequence. That's just un-arpeggioy. >__>
It's pseudo-Jazzy. (Just go with it. It was a bad example, lol.)
Much of my uncertainty on how to use the term actually originate in how guitarists and pianists play it kinda differently. Can't remember what the difference actually was, though, only that when we went through arpeggios in class, every single guitarist went "wait, that's not precisely how we do it".
Which only goes to show that guitarists are terrible musicians. :face-face:
(02-20-2014, 01:27 AM)Danjo Wrote: Well almost all guitar chords are inversions of one kind or another, so the way a guitarist thinks about chords is just different. And you could either say that playing the notes of a standard chord in order of strings is an arpeggio, or you could mean playing the notes in the order that they fall in a scale, which is many cases mean you can't just hold the chord for guitar.An inversion is a chord where the tonic isn't the root. So, slash chords are inversions. A standard Emajor, Aminor, G7, etc. -- none of those are inversions. Even on piano, there's different voicings of common chords. (If you look into composition with several melody-based instruments, particularly those that use free counterpoint [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoin...unterpoint], then you'll see there's an awful lot of voicings, depending on the situation and the desired cadence.) It's just that pianists tend to get used to the standard 3-finger major/minor chord fingering, adding other fingers for extensions or moving their middle/ring finger to play suspensions.
A guitarist, of course, has several go-to voicings that are common. But any guitarist realizes at some point that he has as many possible chord voicings as he can think of. Contrast that to piano where you end up with less than 10 different voicings that can practically be played. Just the nature of the beast. hrug: