Chapter 5 Arpeggio Power

Chapter 5 "Arpeggio Power"

Watercolor Cover Illustration: Ralph Schwartz

Practice arpeggios as they form the basis for reading leaping intervals in music.
Read and play intervals in music with a complete study of major, dominant 7th and diminished 7th arpeggios.
Enhance your arpeggio technique with flexibility and expanding range studies.
Challenge your endurance with arpeggio studies that include both flexibility and expanding range.
Improve your “cornet solo” style by adding lower neighbors to the arpeggios.
Achieve the minor equivalent by lowering the 3rd degree of each major scale.
With 208 pages of arpeggios exercises, you will become more accomplished and fluent in reading the “language of music”.

Major Arpeggios with Flexibility

These exercises feature four different exercises written out in every key. They range from 1 to 2 octaves with ascending, descending and mixed motion. Rhythmic changes present more challenging studies.

Major Arpeggios with Expanding Range

Exercises begin with a small interval and expand with subsequent subdivisions of the beat.

Major Arpeggios with Endurance

Endurance combines the techniques found in the flexibility and expanding range studies.

Major Arpeggios with Lower Neighbors

These studies are intended to add some “cornet-solo” style to the practice of major arpeggios. They are virtuostic in nature and should be played with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Have fun with them!

V7 Arpeggios, V7-I Progression and Fully-Diminished 7th Chords

These arpeggios are presented in a variety of styles and treatments. Continuous progressions start in a low range and move toward medium and high range exercises.
The Fully-Diminished 7th chords first appear in arpeggio form within the key and then modulate to a chromatic progression for an added challenge.

Major Arpeggios with Flexibility, Expanding Range, Endurance, Lower Neighbors, V7, V7-I and Fully-Diminished 7th Chords