{"id":8834,"date":"2022-09-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:48:25","slug":"beautifully-simple-arpeggios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/beautifully-simple-arpeggios\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautifully Simple Arpeggios (Beginner Piano Lesson)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone loves arpeggios! They sound beautiful, impressive, and nearly every genre of piano music has them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this lesson, Pianote Coach Sangah Noona shows us how to play arpeggios in a brilliantly simple way. It&#8217;s so easy&#8230;but it sounds so pretty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s Sangah&#8217;s secret? The answer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/slash-chords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slash chords<\/a>. Slash chords look like this on a chord chart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>Dm\/C<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means: &#8220;play a Dm chord over a C.&#8221; This usually translates to playing the chord to the left of the slash with your right hand and the note to the right of the slash with your left hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That extra root note at the bass (which doesn&#8217;t always belong to the chord on the left of the slash) adds some extra depth to what used to be a super basic chord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Sangah plays Dm\/C like this in the lesson. (Imagine the arpeggio being played from left to right).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/06105820\/Dm-over-C-arpeggio-1024x512.png\" alt=\"Keyboard diagram with left hand notes highlighted in red (CFAD) with fingering and right hand notes highlighted in grey (FADFAD) with fingering.\" class=\"wp-image-8838\" width=\"768\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/09\/06105820\/Dm-over-C-arpeggio-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/09\/06105820\/Dm-over-C-arpeggio-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/09\/06105820\/Dm-over-C-arpeggio-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/pianote-blog.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/app\/uploads\/2022\/09\/06105820\/Dm-over-C-arpeggio.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sangah does the same pattern with several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/diatonic-chords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">diatonic chords<\/a> in C Major:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dm\/C<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Em\/C<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>F\/C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you enjoyed this lesson, check out these related lessons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/arpeggio-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arpeggio Practice \u2013 The FUN Way!<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/beautiful-arpeggios-piano-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beautiful Arpeggio Practice for the Piano<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/left-hand-arpeggios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beautiful (And Easy) Left-Hand Arpeggio Patterns<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"blue-text-block\"><center><h2 style=\"font-size:22px\"><b>\ud83c\udfb9 Your Go-To Place for All Things Piano<\/b><\/h2><p>Subscribe to <i>The Note<\/i> for exclusive interviews, fascinating articles, and inspiring lessons delivered straight to your inbox. 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