99% of classical songs were made from straight scales. If I'm not mistaken Ode to Joy is a C scale. Arpeggios, (I hope) everybody knows that they are broken chords. Broken chords are a type of scale. Chords are comprised from scales, and scales were made from looking at, the first instrument, the organ. All the hand positions on the keyboard are half-scales. Scales are repetitive and boring to play. Most of the time you can take a few notes that people play on a guitar for a song and make a chord out of them. Arpeggios don't have to be straight note by note as indicated by the chord. For instance you have five notes, the arpeggio could be like this: 1 4 3 2 5 3 5 4 1. Scales make just about ever song whether you want to admit it or not. Even without knowing it, you could put your hands on a keyboard and press some keys and you made something out of scales. Now stop complaining about repetitiveness, I deal with repetitiveness every time my piano tutor tells me to play a scale. Back to the music shall we?
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(07-14-2012, 13:30)Leech Wrote: ^This guy can learn new instruments like they're nothing. I have no clue how he does it