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# I IV V I Guitar Arpeggio Practice
- URL: https://vividguitar.co/i-iv-v-i-guitar-arpeggio-practice/
- Published: 2025-03-14T15:25:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-14T15:25:47.000Z
- Description: The newsletter for guitar players.
- Author: Vivid Guitar
- Tags: Guitar Lessons

Let's do a bit of arpeggio work with a I IV V I progression in the key of G.

As guitar players, it's easy for us to default to thinking in terms of '*scales first*' when playing over a chord progression. Thinking '*chord first*' can often result in more musical lines. 

In the example below, we're playing chord tones by using pieces of the arpeggios of each chord. 

While this might seem a bit overly simplistic to some players, this approach can still be a good reminder of a way to switch up your lead playing away from just running through scale patterns and shapes. We'll expound on this further over the next couple issues. 

Arpeggios in G Major

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