Originally Posted by: magicninjaSay you have...

A minor chord any minor chord.

------5---------
------6---------
------7---------
------7---------
------5---------
----------------

In stead of strumming the chord just pick the notes......


---------5------
-------6--------
-----7---------
---7-----------
-5-------------
----------------You have an arpeggio.

It's not quite like that, here's a Dminor7 chord and it's arpeggio:

----5-------------------------------------5-----8-----
----6--------------------------------6----------------
----5----------------------5----7--------------------
----7-----------------7-------------------------------
----5--------5----8-----------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

the notes of the chord are D, F, A & C. You play all those notes in order up the arpeggio.

Here's one for Cmajor7

--------------------------------------------------7--8--
----8-----------------------------------------8---------
----9-------------------------------------9-------------
----9----------------------------9---10-----------------
----x------------------7---10---------------------------
----8-------------8-------------------------------------

I chose to do arpeggios for 7th chords because 7th arpeggios are actually easier to play and sound cooler anyway. Here is in my opinion the coolest sounding arpeggio of them all. the Minor add9 arpeggio, I'll do it in Dminor starting from the 3:

-------------------------------12---13------------------
--------------------------15----------------------------
---------------------14---------------------------------
-------12--14--15--------------------------------------
-------12-----------------------------------------------
---13---------------------------------------------------

it just sounds so great! I use it all the time. You can move it to be in whatever key you want.