His love of classical harmony often manifests itself with either the harmonic minor scale or its fifth mode, the Phrygian Dominant. This can be heard in such tracks as Riot In The Dungeon and Far ...

Four and five-string arpeggios aren't that unusual to rock fans, but these half diminished ones are a little different When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The diminished triad on the root chord is a great sound for when you need tension. Play the Adim chord as a simple arpeggio as in this example and you can draw the tension out for the duration of ...

Example 7. These Minor triad and Diminished 7th arpeggio inversions repeat Malmsteen’s mechanical habit of beginning each descent on an upstroke and each ascent with a downstroke.