Arpeggios

[chopinfan_22]

How to you practice arpeggios? Can anyone give me advice/help on this topic?

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

Here is what I have to say so far. Before practicing the actual arpeggios I warm up for them, by grasping the entire chords and their inversions and alternate the chord's intervals, first in eight notes, then in triplets, and then in sixteenth notes. I do that for about 4 octaves. Then on to the arpeggios. I practice 2 things, finger dexterity, and wrist flexibility, because without using the wrists it is virtually impossible to play relaxed and fast arpeggios. I start on the first note, making sure my wrists are low so that my fingers can be active, and slowly roll the other notes. The roll action is very important. I also do the stop and go excercise, when I roll the first arpeggio and stop on the first note of the second one (1st inversion) and I repeat that note with the 5th finger to get a good feel. That also allows me to check if I'm relaxed and my hand is in proper position. I also make sure that my fingers, expecially the 5th doesn't collapse. After the short arpeggios, I move on to broken arpeggios, again applying the wrist action and do excercises on the arpeggios, such as the repeating the intervals a couple of times, making sure the sound and technique is good. After the broken arpeggios I move on to the long arpeggios. In these, I practice them by staying on the first note (do), and alternating the adjacent notes, then the next note to the adjacent, then the interval. On long arpeggios my teacher always supports a good legato, and for that there must be wrist action. Very important: don't rush. Play them slow. Hope this helps.

[leucippus]

Greetings.

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Ok this sound like fun.  How do I get started with this?  Is there "Arpeggio" sheet music exercises I can download from this site???

Or from another site for free??? 

I paid to join this site but I'm a little disapointed in lack of "exercise" material they have for beginners.  Unless I'm just not finding it?

[bearzinthehood]

Come on now, there are tons of those exercises around.  Just go to sheetmusicarchive.net and download Hanon or Brahms or something.

[chopinfan_22]

Part Three in Hanon contains scale/arpeggio work. Almost anything you can think of. However, you don't necessarily have to follow the books directions. I don't.

go here. https://www.sheetmusicarchive.net

[nightingale11]

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[kriskicksass]

Diminished 7th chord arpeggios are great for learning the wrist movement because they fit under the hand really well and use all of the fingers.