Tuning-specific arpeggio diagram
Ab Major Add9 Arpeggio in 7-String Standard Tuning
Ab Major Add9 Arpeggio in 7-String Standard Tuning shows the same ab major add9 arpeggio chord tones across 7 strings tuned B E A D G B E. The seventh string adds lower chord-tone positions below a six-string layout while keeping the upper strings familiar.
- Chord tones
- Ab, C, Eb, Bb
- Formula
- 1 3 5 9
- Semitones
- 0 4 7 14
- Chord symbols
- Abadd9, Abadd2
- Tuning
- B E A D G B E
- Strings
- 7
- Open pitch range
- B1 to E4
- 24-fret range
- B1 to E6
Open strings and root positions
None of the 7 open strings belongs to Ab Major Add9 Arpeggio. Every arpeggio tone must therefore be fretted, beginning with the first available tone on the low B string.
First root on each string
Low-string pattern
On the lowest B string, the first-octave arpeggio pattern falls at frets 1, 4, 9, and 11, with the Ab root at fret 9. On the highest E string, the first Ab is at fret 4.
Practice this tuning-specific layout
- Play Ab Major Add9 Arpeggio on the low B string at frets 1, 4, 9, and 11, saying each note name and degree aloud.
- Play the arpeggio without using an open string, then stop on the nearest Ab root each time the line changes strings.
- Connect the Ab root positions on strings 7 through 1 at frets 9, 4, 11, 6, 1, 9, and 4, adding the nearest arpeggio tone between each pair of roots.
Fretboard diagram
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