“It really is kind of a drag”

[Triple-o]

No, this post is not about Corvid -19, but the virus is also really kind of a drag. “It really is kind of a drag” is a line from the Led Zeppelin song “Since I’ve been loving you”. Another song I never heard before. I know, I know, you must think I am the last Neanderthal living in some cave in Germany or France.  Although, I do wish I had one of those “evolution guitar tee shirts” 

When looking at the song’s sheet music, a short vertical wavy line with an arrow head immediately caught my eye. I’ve seen a long wavy line before and I new that it meant to “play like a harp” one note at a time slowly, Quasi-Arpi. (Mel bay method books) This line was short with the an arrow head next to what looked like a double stop. Well, turns out it’s the symbol for an arpeggio. Ten years of practice and  I never came across this symbol with an arrow head, and usually the arpeggios I seen aren’t written like a chord. I also see there is  a bracket symbol used  next to chord notation that means not arpeggiated.
 

Just in case you’re working on session 11, pentatonic scales, you might want to look at this slow  jazzy blues rock in Eb (Cm pentatonic). It looks like a good one to practice the Cm pentatonic scale with the Gb from the Eb blues scale.

[Eracer_Team-DougH]

Since I've Been Loving You is a great song