How to Write Sweeping Arpeggios
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Do your arpeggios all sound rather similar? It’s a common problem for producers.
Arpeggios are when you play a chord one note at a time, and it’s one of the best techniques for making your progressions more interesting. And while it’s definitely more rare to hear arpeggios than “block” chords in popular music genres, most of the arpeggios you do hear are rather boring. Merely playing chords one note at a time is not a foolproof way of making progressions more creative. If you want better arpeggios, you need to write an internal melody within them. Want even better arpeggios? Write two internal melodies, or maybe even three!
What are we talking about when we talk about “internal melodies”? Well, the melodies need to be formed from notes within the arpeggios, as opposed to writing a melody over the top of them. There’s obviously nothing wrong with doing that, but it will be heard as a separate melody, not as part of the arpeggios.
While there’s an abundance of genius examples of this in classical music, there are sadly not many to be found in popular music genres. If you’re into the rock side of things, Muse has plenty of creative arpeggios. Examples are even rarer on the electronic side of things, though, but DAFT PUNK comes to the rescue with their song “Motherboard” (check out their new “Drumless Edition” of this song, as it’s easier to hear the arpeggios). At 28 seconds into this track, the most beautiful arpeggios begin to sweep up and down. Despite their fast pace (i.e. 1/16 notes), they’re thoroughly calming due to their smooth, sweeping motion. And it’s not just the fast pace that makes their arpeggios so creative, it’s also their choice of notes.
So, inspired by “Motherboard”, here’s our 5-step method for writing sweeping arpeggios, which are guaranteed to stand out from all those boring, clichéd arpeggios. But first… Tea!
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much obliged for the new upload. wondering if you're good at identifying instrument sounds, even if they are sampled sounds? i'm working on a soundfont using samples from a game, and i have trouble with identifying some of the sounds, because i want to get the samples properly named and organized by categories.
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Hi Kate & Ray! That's something new and I'm going to try it, thank you :)
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Good show, enjoying it over some coffee now and tea later.
Remove the "how to write" and "s" and then you'll be advertising honestly
Edit: they literally just advertised, this is an ad
It's an ad for a FREE PDF, which is an in-depth, step-by-step tutorial that took us two weeks to make. We're working for free, and you're complaining about that? Can you please explain how this offends you?
Also, we've got over 200 FREE video tutorials here on CZcams. The reason we're focusing on PDF tutorials now, is because there are too many distractions on CZcams, it's not a good place to learn. Our community has told us that the PDF tutorials we're doing are far better for learning, because they're in-depth, and a lot of people print them out and work through them off-line. Why don't you try our free PDF before complaining about it?
@@HackMusicTheory I'm not exactly offended in the way you may think.
The title as of right now is "how to write sweeping arpeggios".
The video features _a_ sweeping arpeggio, but the video only contains an ad for where one could find out how to write a sweeping arpeggio.
If the video contained a brief and non-descriptive tutorial to give just enough interest to how to make a sweeping arpeggio and then the ad, I'd believe it was a great video.
And, I'm not complaining you're doing free work, (because this and the PDF being free is not the problem) the problem is the title implies that you explain how to make a sweeping arpeggio.
It does not do that.
If you retitled the video to something along the lines of "we've got a free PDF you should check out because you can find out how to make this cool arpeggio", it would be a good video because it would be accurate to the contents of the video.
@@HackMusicTheory I really appreciate your PDF tutorials. Thank you for making them available.
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