Lick of the Week - Diminished Arpeggios in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen

[mark wein]

This is not super fast but it will get you the sound and show you how you can use a diminished arpeggio in a repeating sequence to get up the fretboard and create a little tension in your line that you can resolve by playing an idea that is definitely more in the key of E minor with a little pedal point lick in the second bar. All of the notes exist in the key of E Harmonic minor but how we group them into a diminished arpeggio and then a more scalar lick gives us a little bit more interest instead of just playing up and down the scale.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u91mw8fmoTg

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