A Major Arpeggio Sheet Music

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Part of the video series: Violin Arpeggios: A Major

Summary: The violin is one of the most important melodic instruments in history. Learn how to read an A Major scale arpeggio on sheet music in this free video clip series.

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A Major Arpeggio Sheet Music

Now, we've learned how to construct and play an a-tonic major arpeggio on the violin. But now, let's take a look at it on staff paper. Take a look. We have an A, all right, which is the first degree of our scale of arpeggio, so we put one under it. Next, is C sharp? Use this accidental right here, the one that looks like a tic-tack-toe box, okay, is a sharp. It means you raise the pitch. So if this was C natural I'd put a sharp, it's C sharp now, second scale degree, so two is under it. Third for E, fourth for A, and A has an open, a zero above it. That means it's played on an open string. Next we have C sharp, see our accidental. Five, six, also has an open string because it's an open E seven, three. Eight is one. We switch up in the fourth position, so we put the one over that for our fingering. Nine is three, third fingering, and ten is four.

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