Arpeggio - How and Why to Use on a Piano

Arpeggio - How and Why to Use on a Piano

Take some piano lessons from Scott Houston “The Piano Guy.” In this video, Scott shows you how to play arpeggios on a piano or keyboard.

Using arpeggios is a great way to make your bass line more interesting and can be used as a terrific aid when improvising or getting out of a tune!

What exactly is an Arpeggio?

An arpeggio occurs when you play the notes of a chord in succession but not playing them at the same time. The notes are played separately, in some pattern but not together. Arpeggios can go up or down.

When played in your left hand, arpeggios truly can make your bass line come to life! In the video, Scott demonstrates many ways to play arpeggios in your left hand using patterns to make the bass line more compelling.

What’s more, using arpeggios in your right hand in an arpeggiated pattern can certainly be a fantastic tool to support you while improvising! Again, several examples will be shown to help you learn how to incorporate arpeggios tastefully into your soloing.

Finally, another great way to utilize arpeggios is as an ending for a tune. In our style of playing, you are always looking for a way to end your song. Arpeggios really provide an easy, dramatic way to get out of a tune! Be sure to take full advantage of them!

Houston’s life goal is to help you learn to play piano through piano lessons that you can take anywhere and at any time to get you started having some fun at a piano or keyboard as quickly as possible.

Scott Houston is the host of The Piano Guy television series on Public Television and has taught hundreds of thousands of folks like yourself, how to have some fun on their piano or keyboard. He wants to help you get there too—as quickly as possible.

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Arpeggio - How and Why to Use on a Piano

[peterf]

Great video and I like your sense of ha ha. I tend to take this stuff too seriously and forget it is supposed to be fun. Subed.

[peteregan]

this guy is a total goofball and I love it

[ruthanecastro]

very easy to learn. Omg! I'm a begginer pianist of the Lord. So this tutorial is easy and very helpful how to play beautiful in our church.

[MrMelmajors]

I love his KISS method of teaching.  wonderful

[shariqkhan]

so wonderfully explained, with such niceness of ease.

[andriswinoto]

I was desperate to play my keyboard, You bring my spirit back

[alaysiakayebutler]

Fantastic; tried 5 beginner arpeggio vids to get to your simple answer and description. Thank you, kind sir :)

[classicaserrato]

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With these kind of short videos I feel like I've learned so much and You just make me everyday a better piano enthusiast
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[DerekRaven]

I came across this video and remembered how much I learned from your tv show on PBS when I started out on piano. Learned some new arpeggio patterns, thank you.

[jaspers]

I like that. Made a lot of sense to me. Thanks a bunch. ( And you got the clap too)

[tuga]

thanks for upload, i Only came here to know what an arpeggio is, not only learn what i wanted to know also enjoyed the lesson.

[ApolloJetsonKND]

Dude! This was awesome! Great quality video! Nice explanation! Definitely subscribed!!!!

[opendoorproperty]

Thank you for this post. You have a great way of explaining Concepts and ideas that seemed rather foreign when it comes to Theory. You got to sell it baby, great line LOL.

[UlyssesAlexandreAlves]

Awesome stuff. Thank you for this video!

[oa]

What a beautiful way to explain it. Watching 1 minute of this, I am going to subscribe.

[stevec]

I just learned something, I thank you Scott, for all the good info, I am only on second coarse, but moving along

[cocteaumusic]

"You gotta sell it, baby!"

Made me laugh. Thank you!

[pearlwang]

Thank you so much for such a fun packed learning experience. I actually laughed out loud towards the end!! Have a great day - I certainly did after watching this video.

[saumyabhargava]

YOU are so funny. Incredible teaching!

[Native_love]

Wow! Ive been practicing Chords for awhile now and they finally sound cool thamks to you! Subbed! Thank you!