I-IV-V7 Arpeggio Progression in D Minor (With Tabs)

I came up with this idea 1 or 2 weeks ago, and I have to say this is one of the most difficult pieces of music I’ve put on my channel so far. After watching Jared Dines’ Biggest Shred Collab 6 video and seeing some of the best guitarists on Earth shred for 25 minutes, it kind of makes you feel like you’re garbage at playing the guitar. But, it also makes me want to push myself to write and play harder material. I would rate this video an in terms of difficulty, although most of the people in the shred collab could probably play this in their sleep lol. The I-IV-V or I-IV-V-I progression is probably THE most common chord progression in music. We’ve all heard it a million times in a million different songs. One way to spice it up a little bit is to play a dominant 7th chord for the V chord instead of a minor chord. For this lick I’m playing in D minor, and the V7 chord is an A7 instead of A minor. This means that for the A7 chord, we are switching scales from D minor to D harmonic minor. I like to think of this as a scale change rather than a key change because harmonic minor is not a key. What that means for the scale is that instead of having a C, the minor 7th scale degree, we now have C#, a major 7th in the scale. And there’s a lot of tension between the C# and the root D, meaning that the C# really wants to resolve to D. I originally planned to sweep pick the A7 arpeggio, but it was too difficult to speed up so I decided to play it with tapping instead. Chapters 0:00 Fast Demo 0:15 Slow Demo 0:38 Tabs #guitar #music #guitarsolo #guitarriff #metal #tabs