Tuning-specific arpeggio diagram

Ab Power Chord Arpeggio in C Standard Tuning

Ab Power Chord Arpeggio in C Standard Tuning shows the same ab power chord arpeggio chord tones across 6 strings tuned C F Bb Eb G C. The tuning changes where the same chord tones sit across the fretboard.

Chord tones: Ab, Eb
Formula: 1 5
Semitones: 0 7
Chord symbols: Ab5
Tuning: C F Bb Eb G C
Strings: 6
Open pitch range: C2 to C4
24-fret range: C2 to C6

Open strings and root positions

1 of the 6 open strings belong to Ab Power Chord Arpeggio: string 3 Eb (5). None of those open-string tones is the Ab root, so the root must be fretted on every string.

String 3Eb5

First root on each string

String 6Fret 8

String 5Fret 3

String 4Fret 10

String 3Fret 5

String 2Fret 1

String 1Fret 8

Low-string pattern

On the lowest C string, the first-octave arpeggio pattern falls at frets 3 and 8, with the Ab root at fret 8. On the highest C string, the first Ab is at fret 8.

Fret 3Eb5

Fret 8Ab1

Practice this tuning-specific layout

Play Ab Power Chord Arpeggio on the low C string at frets 3 and 8, saying each note name and degree aloud.
Build a phrase that lets Eb on open string 3 ring, then connect it to the nearest Ab root and two other arpeggio tones.
Connect the Ab root positions on strings 6 through 1 at frets 8, 3, 10, 5, 1, and 8, adding the nearest arpeggio tone between each pair of roots.