Unlock Big Changes in Your Playing with Daniel Ward's Meditative Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a group of notes within a chord, which are played one at a time, instead of all at the same time. The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare. Literally, this translates as “to play on a harp.”

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The arpeggio is a handy tool that outlines not only the chord structure of the music, but also drives the rhythm in unique ways, and can even carry melody within the pattern. This is great news for ukulele, which is set up perfectly for this kind of playing. In this lesson, we will look at a simple arpeggio that has the power to quickly unlock big changes in your playing, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned musician. This lesson is so easy to learn that we need to be careful not to miss some of the rich benefits that come from this kind of practice.

Before we get started, let’s talk about the fingers that do the plucking. Whether you play right-handed or left-handed, the plucking hand is the hand that “speaks.” Although the hand doing the fretting takes care of a large part of the music, the instrument can only sing as well as the skill of the speaking hand’s touch. Here’s a quick way to get your fingers on the strings and start to get a feel for this. Play strings 4-3-2-1 with your thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers and repeat. Over and over.

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