an arpeggio is a chord played one note at a time...for example u hold an A chord, but instead of strumming the whole chord...u pick the strings one by one...eg.

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this is a form of arpeggio as a C chord but u play it this way instead of strumming

hope it makes sense...and yes i have bad grammar..pfft