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soitainly

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arpeggio exercizes?

on: February 27, 2011, 10:04:45 PM

I know what an arpeggio is of course, and I know they are prevalant in a large part of piano music. I came from classical guitar and arpeggios are the foundation of playing much of the music. I didn't spend much time on studies, I found that just playing the pieces gave me all the practice I needed.

I hear quite often that piano students along with scales, devote some time to arpeggio studies. Are there specific things you work on. Do you start with simple one octave triads and then work up to multi octave exercizes using both hands. I haven't seen any written exercises on this subject. I could probably get by without lots of studies but maybe it would be easier to have a few just to progress a little faster.

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thinkgreenlovepiano

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Re: arpeggio exercizes?

Reply #1 on: February 27, 2011, 10:22:01 PM

Well I group chords, arpeggios, and all that under "scales" and practise them all together. I focus on one key per week, and practise all the scales, formula patterns, chords, arpeggios, etc for that key.

Piano Street has some sheet music for arpeggios, I'm not sure if that's what you are looking for.
https://www.pianostreet.com/search/freesingle.php?id=1261
https://www.pianostreet.com/search/freesingle.php?id=1262
I also practise dominant/ diminished seventh arpeggios for each key.

When I first started learning my scales, I played 1 octave arpeggios, hands separately, in root position. Now several years later, I play them hands together, 4 octaves, in all inversions. My teacher also has me practise them with different rhythms, and with different groupings (accenting every 3rd note, accenting every 4th note, etc) to help me become more comfortable with playing arpeggios. There are also probably Hanon exercises that involve arpeggios... I haven't played Hanon for a million years though, so I wouldn't know...
But the main goal/ focus is to play them smoothly and evenly and accurately of course.