another arpeggio question

[drumstix128@aol.com]

Okay. I've the majors down.Now i have another question. If saw my last post you saw the formation for a major arpeggio. How do you make that a minor, then?

[StoneDragon]

Major is 1 3 5. Minor is 1 b3 5. If you know where the intervals lay out relative to the root note, then all you have to do is lower the 3rd by a half-step wherever you run into it.

To use your example from the other thread:

---------2------5---
-------3-----------
-----2-------------
---4--------------
-5-----------------
------------------

This is a Dmaj arpeggio. D is the root, F# is the 3rd and A is the 5th. So what you need to do is make the F# notes into plain old F notes like this:

---------1------5---
-------3-----------
-----2-------------
---3--------------
-5-----------------
------------------

to get diminished, flat both the 3 and the 5:

---------1------4---
-------3-----------
-----1-------------
---3--------------
-5-----------------
------------------